Threepress creates software for publishers, educators and authors.

With more than a decade of experience in web development and over five years in digital publishing, we provide expert consulting services and software engineering. Past work has included award-winning XML-driven search applications, social networking platforms, editorial management systems and data migration tools.

Threepress owner Liza Daly is a frequent author and speaker on publishing technology.

Recently released

Please see our blog for frequent news and commentary, or follow @liza on Twitter.

Nov 2 2009 Ibis Reader is announced
Nov 1 2009 Every day in November, Threepress will post a new digital publishing-related item on our blog
Oct 15 2009 Threepress demonstrates our part in the Internet Archive's BookServer ecology
Sept 8 2009 Professional development seminars on ebooks for the Book Publishers Association of Alberta
Sept 3 2009 Rosenfeld Media releases their first ePub, created by the Threepress team

Ebook consulting

Threepress has considerable expertise with the ePub ebook format. We produce free tutorials, software and tools to help publishers and authors embrace this new technology.

Please contact us for ebook consulting, content conversion or assistance with digitization.

ePub

Threepress Consulting is a member of the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) and an active participant in the ePub Working Group.

Client work

We are proud of our long history of successful client relationships. We love working with publishers, book enthusiasts, and organizations with an educational mission.

2009 clients include:

Association of Canadian Publishers Hachette UK Book Publishers Association of Alberta Rosenfeld Media
Simplicissimus Book Farm Shelfworthy PBS Engage O'Reilly

Technology

We are domain experts in many aspects of publishing technology:

  1. Ebook formats including ePub, Mobipocket and PDF
  2. XML schemas from DocBook and TEI to DITA
  3. All web technologies including Java, Python, Perl, XHTML/CSS and JavaScript
  4. Unicode and internationalization isssues
  5. XQuery, XSLT and search or content repositories such as MarkLogic

Technologists are encouraged to review Threepress source code at the public repositories for Threepress and epub-tools.