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Very cool. Does anyone know if humans manually reformatted all of these to include special Inkling features, or whether they automatically generated them from

• Me1000 14y ago
  Inkling has a team of people that work on content creation, custom tailoring each book for Inkling. Much of the original source material is reused, but much of the content is created from scratch… In fact, many times the content team discovers problems with the original content that they go in and fix. I can't say for sure how the new programming books are created in their entirety, but I think it's safe to assume a similar process is used. Source: I was an intern at Inkling about a year ago.
• mattmacinnis 14y ago
  (Matt, CEO of Inkling here.) Humans did not manually reformat these titles. The source was EPUB, and there was some clever automation to start. The semantic structure, internal content links, remarks and glossary entries were done essentially algorithmically. Enhancements and the ability to see code in the book were done systematically, and sometimes manually. All of this was done using Inkling Habitat, our (as-yet unreleased) integrated content development environment. It makes this stuff much more scalable, and as we continue to roll out cool brands like O'Reilly, you'll see increasing amounts of media and interactivity where stuff like that makes sense.