About Us

eBook Architects works with authors and publishers of all sizes, designing well-formatted, high-quality eBooks for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, and other devices. In addition to converting trade fiction and non-fiction into eBook formats, eBook Architects has built a solid reputation as one of the premier eBook design companies handling complex eBook content and enhanced eBooks. The company has designed many complex eBook titles, including children’s picture books, cookbooks, poetry, Bibles, textbooks, scientific and technical manuals, journals, magazines, chess manuals, and more, and has helped clients add video, audio, and other enhancements to their ePUB and Kindle eBooks. eBook Architects is also a preferred provider for Apple’s fixed layout ePub files.

eBook Architects has many clients and partners, including publishers of all sizes, agents, print book designers, distributors, and independent authors.

For more information on how we can help you, please look around the site and contact us.

Our Staff

Joshua Tallent
Founder/CEO
@jtallent
Joshua has been an eBook developer since 2002. He is an acknowledged expert on the Kindle and ePub formats, and his book, Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide, has been praised as the most thorough explanation of the Kindle format available. Joshua founded eBook Architects in 2008, providing services to both publishers and authors, with a focus on complex projects and enhanced eBooks. Joshua is an active speaker and teacher on topics related to eBooks and eBook design, conducting numerous online and in-person seminars for groups like Digital Book World, BISG, and the Association of Canadian Publishers, as well as speaking at conferences like Tools of Change, Digital Book World, and Book Expo America. eBook Architects is a member of the IDPF, and Joshua serves on the ePUB3 Working Group.

Please contact Joshua if you have business proposals, technical questions, consulting requests, or if you would like to brainstorm about how you can best engage the eBook world.

Nick Ramirez
Project Manager
As the former Consigliere for the River of Blood Corporation, and a retired bounty-hunter for 28, the dangerous business of project management at eBook Architects suits Nick perfectly. He uses only Dell keyboards, Logitech pointing devices, Shure buds and Sennheiser cans while he works. When he's not giving potential clients an offer they can't refuse, you might find him running sound at a wedding, watching "Dancing with the Stars" with his daughter, or avoiding State Troopers on HWY-290. He lives in Houston with his bride, daughter, dog, 3 cats, and a steady supply of energy drinks.

Please contact Nick if you have questions about pricing, would like to get a quote, or would like to get your project in the queue.

Toby Stevenson
Developer of Development Tools for Developers / The IT Scapegoat / Open Source Advocate / eBook Architect
@penguinpowered
Toby enjoys long walks to the bar, cracking jokes in movie theaters, shooting his loved ones with nerf guns and penguins (wait...penguins?). Oh yeah, he also likes software development. In March of 2010 Toby took on the ultimate challenge of his professional career and made the “s” in “eBook Architects” official, becoming the company’s first employee. Having worked with Joshua in the past creating quality eBooks, there was no way Toby could turn down this amazing opportunity. Since then, Toby has enjoyed a growing industry, a growing company, and constantly beating his co-workers at Golden Eye.

Chris Casey
Senior eBook Architect
@cdcasey
After his stint in ’Nam, Chris lived with a small tribe of Malaysian pygmies until 1981. His whereabouts for the next ten years are largely unknown, but he surfaced again in Austin, TX in 1990 working at a then-local bookstore chain. Later, after some time in IT and an ill-advised career attempt in chemistry, his wife showed him an email in which someone was looking for a person with experience in HTML, CSS, regular expressions, scripting, and proper use of the Oxford comma. He said, "Sure, whatever," and is now Senior eBook Architect and a member of the eBook Ninjas Podcast. Chris enjoys chamber music and ten-pin bowling.

Bridget Jones
eBook Architect
@msbiggyj
Bridget drinks her fair share of coffee and keeps strange condiments in the mini-fridge. She manages all of the eBooks projects for Open Road Media and Titan Books, two of our largest clients. Those projects regularly include fixed-layout and video enhancements, so there are always design challenges to overcome. Really, most of her time is spent farming out work to our intern. She says that this is her way of helping with his “professional development.”

Kyle Carter
eBook Architect
Kyle is just some guy who loves loud, fast music and being vegetarian. At some point during high school, he decided the small town Louisiana life was not the one he wanted to live. So, pursuing an interest in the printed word, Kyle started down the long treacherous path of learning the ins and outs of the publishing industry. But something very unexpected happened along this path — Kyle found himself one day editing his first ePub and from there found his life turned upside down as he entered the growing world of eBook creation.

Matt Stevenson
eBook Architect
Of the two greatest events of 1984, the release of Ghostbusters and the birth of Matt, only one has garnered critical acclaim and inspired generations to come. The other starred Bill Murray. Despite being burdened with what many could often say are too many “God-given gifts,” most don’t say it often enough. In fact, Matt’s modesty is only eclipsed by his vanity and success. Many epics were written about his life in his hometown of Houston, but they were all destroyed by the humidity. Website bios have scrambled to pick up the loss. In the year 2011 a divine wind deposited Matt in Austin. Here he set up the darkest Graphic Design and eBook Development work space possible inside the heart of a volcano at eBook Architects.

AJ Dodd
eBook Architect
AJ is a Judaism practicing Harley-Davidson riding eBook developer. He loves creating well designed and well scripted eBooks at work, and is excited to see the eBook world continue to grow and expand. In his spare time he likes to study Jewish literature, work out, go running with his beautiful future wife, and many similar activities. He looks forward to converting your plain old paperback into an exciting, new, colorful, awesome eBook!

Andrea Cato
eBook Architect
Rescued from a chrysalis at the site of the lost library of Alexandria, Andrea shocked her newfound “parents” by growing to a full adult in just under three months. Unsure of what to do with the foundling, they bundled her up and shipped her to Austin, Texas. There, she found her two twin callings, eBooks and digital libraries. Now, in addition to building eBooks, Andrea volunteers at a local library and haunts the running trails around Town Lake.

Danielle Cheek
Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant
Danielle is the part time Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant here at eBook Architects. She spends her time deciphering the plethora of tax law, tracking cashflows, paying the bills, collecting payments from clients, and updating QuickBooks files. She also works part-time in the bakery department at Whole Foods. Outside of work, Danielle loves scuba diving, hiking, cooking, baking and traveling. To balance some of these really expensive hobbies, she also enjoys finding random fun free things to do around Austin, which doesn’t take much searching.

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