July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 25m
English
book
EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders
by Elizabeth Castro
Overview
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for
displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a
powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable
readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from
perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and
incomplete creation tools. This extensively researched guide to
creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows
you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the
screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors. In this
essential book, Liz shares her hard-earned experience for how
to:
Create EPUB files from existing Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign files, or from scratch.
Tweak EPUB files to take full advantage of the power of EPUB in each respective ereader.
Control spacing, indents, and margins.
Insert images and sidebars and wrap text around them.
Create links to external sources and cross-references to internal ones.
Add video to ebooks for the iPad.
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