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Contents
Ebook Creation Tools
- “Book Creator now lets you create your own ebooks from your Android tablet” on The Next Web
- Bookry
- “Build a digital book with EPUB” on IBM
- Calibre
- “Calibre 2.0 ships with ebook editor and other improvements” on Ghacks
- “Drag and Drop AppleScripts for EPUB, IDML, etc.” on InDesign Secrets
- Editoria
- “How to Create an Ebook With Sigil: It’s Easier Than You Think” on Beyond Paper Editing
- “Introduction to Using Pressbooks” on Youtube
- Online HTML Editor
- “Pressbooks: An Option for Blogging Books and Booking Blogs from Start to Finish” on How to Blog a Book
- Pressbooks User Guide
- Jutoh
- Kwiksher (Apps)
- “New ebook widgets marketplace” on LinkedIn
- “What is the best software to use to format a book for epublishing?” on Quora
- Oxygen XML Editor
- JS Type Master
- ZappTek
Tutorials
- “Ebook Anatomy: Inside the Black Box” on The Book Designer
- “eBook Formatting 101” on Indies Unlimited
- “Ebook formatting 5: mobi to Kindle for iPad and iPhone” on Exploring Tech Writing
- “Your guide to 7 open eBook formats” on Open Source
- “ePub 3, HTML 5 & CSS 3 (+ Fixed-Layout)” on Slideshare
- “Epub Coding: Making that first line small-capped with some CSS-fu” on Angela Quarles
- “Format a Book in Word: Footnote, Index & Bibliography” on Format Book in Word
- “How To Create EPUB 3 Read Aloud eBooks” on Alberto Pettarin
- “How to Make Ebook Design Count” on Digital Book World
- “Insert html tags” on Stack Overflow
- “Hyphenation in NOOK Color” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Keeping it together – Page breaks in iBooks” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Page Breaks, Turning off Hyphenation, and Horizontal Bolding Bug in iBooks” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Wrapping Text in an ePub for the iPad” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Design and Format An Ebook like a Pro! – Part 1” on Pub My Book
- Regular Expressions Tutorial
- “Responsive Ebook Design: A Primer” on Medium
- “The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To AppleScript” on Envato Tuts
- “Build a digital book with EPUB” on IBM
Kindle (KF8 and MOBI)
- Kindle Formatting
- Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines
- “Adding Page Breaks for Your Kindle eBook” on Paul Salvette
- “Rejoice! Kindle Previewer v2.91 Improves Ebooks for iOS” on Digital Book World
EPUB3
- “Building an EPUB 3 Template” on EPUBZone
- “Creating Read Aloud Content for ePub” on Cue Logic
- EPUB on IDPF
- “EPUB 3 and Interactivity” on EPUB Zone
- EPUB3 Changes on IDPF
- EPUB3 Overview on IDPF
- JavaScript epubReadingSystem Object on IDPF
- Scripted Content Documents on IDPF
- “How Publishers Should Prepare for EPUB 3” on Digital Book World
- “How to Build Rich Navigation in EPUB3” on Digital Book World
- “ePUB3 Special Effects” on Page to Screen
- “Creating pop-up footnotes in EPUB 3 (and thus in iBooks)” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Linking to external video (and audio)* in EPUB3” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines” on IDPF
- “Javascript and geolocation in Fixed Layout ebooks on iPad/iPhone” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
CSS (for Styling)
- “CSS Speech Module” on W3C
- “Getting Started with CSS Shapes” on HTML5Rocks
- “Hyphens” on CSS Tricks
- “The Shapes of CSS” on CSS Tricks
HTML (for Building Ebooks)
- HTML5 Periodic Table on WebsiteSetup
- “eBooks and HTML” on Slideshare
- “HTML5 for Ebooks FAQ” on Digital Book World
- Tables on W3C
- W3 Cheatsheet
InDesign
- “Create an index” on Adobe
- “Jan Wright on Creating ePUB Indexes in InDesign” on EPUB Secrets
- “Creating an index for EPUB with InDesign and GREP” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis
- “Creating a Full Page Slideshow hotspot for Oomph in InDesign” on Youtube
- “Creating a Two-Function Button for Interactive PDF or SWF” on InDesign Secrets
- “Working with Interactive and Multimedia in Adobe InDesign CS6” on Peachpit
- “Creating Multi-object Buttons in Adobe InDesign” on Graphics
- “Creating Multi-State Objects in InDesign 6 Interactive” on Youtube
- “Design column: Creating fixed layout ePUB eBooks with the latest version of InDesign CC” on Talking New Media
- “Digital Publishing Suite Help / Nesting interactive overlays” on Adobe
- “Resources: Going from InDesign to Ebook” on Digital Book World
- “ePublishing with InDesign” on Pariah Burke
- “Fixed Layout EPUB Assistant In InDesign: ePubCrawler” on Rorohikko Workflow Resources
- InDesign Multistates
- “Apply Color” on Adobe
- “Create buttons” on Adobe
- “Create button hot spots” on Adobe
- “Combining multistate objects and buttons” on Lynda
- “Hyperlinks panel overview” on Adobe
- “About masters, stacking order, and layers” on Adobe
- “Master page with editable text region” on Adobe
- “Master Pages in Adobe InDesign CS” on About Tech
- “10 things to know about multi-state objects and buttons in InDesign and DPS” on Gilbert Consulting
- “Tips and tricks for building a slideshow in the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite” on DPCI
Formatting Tips
- “10 Formatting Tips for the Nook (EPUB)” on BTW
- “Publishing: 5 Top Tips for Formatting Ebooks” on Self Publishing Advice Center
- “9 Ways to Significantly Enhance Your eBook Design” on Business 2 Community
- “Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Cover Image” on Digital Book World
- “Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Table of Contents, Part 1” on Digital Book World
- “Can an Ebook Look Good?” on Slideshare
- “How to Avoid the Self-Published Look” on Digital Book World
- “How to Batch Resize in Photoshop” on Digital Photography School
- “How to Prepare for Self-Publishing: Ebook Formatting” on Digital Book World
- “Is it possible to create an index for an ebook in EPUB3?” on Quora
- “Tips for formatting MS Word documents” on Lulu
- “Some Tips to Make Your Ebook Look Great” on Digital Book World
- Strikethrough on Mobile Read
- “Why E-Book Text Layout Sucks” on Gizmodo
Ebook Features
- “Apple Shows Love for HTML5 with iOS 8” on Sencha
- “Apple updates iBooks Author, adds in support for importing ePub and InDesign files” on Talking New Media
Ebook Metadata
- “Complete BISAC Subject Headings List” on BISG
- Dublin Core Metadata
- Book Metadata on NLM
- “Encoding Dublin Core Metadata into XHTML” on Mobile Read
- “Summary of valid XHTML metadata for import into Sigil” on Mobile Read
- “Tips for Technologists #14: SEO and Discoverability” on Publishing Perspectives
- “What’s in an identifier?” on Safari
Quality Checking Your Ebooks (Reviewing)
- “A Step by Step Guide to Evaluating Your ePub Files on Kindles, iPads, and Smartphones” on The Book Designer
- “An EPUB Reader overview” on Ghacks
- EPUBTest
- “What is the QED?” on Digital Book World
- “Managing File Sizes for Ebooks” on JW Manus
- “Reviewing Your eBook Files” on Ebook Architects
- W3C CSS Validation Service
Additional Resources
- EPUB Secrets
- “How to Turn Your Print Book into a Digital File” on Beyond Paper Editing
- “Ebook Development: Education” on Medium
- “Track E-Book Circulation Using ASP” on Ebook Code
- “Track E-Book Circulation Using ASP + Access” on Ebook Code
- EPUBZone
- eReader Resources
- EPUB Straight to the Point
- “How are eBooks Evolving?” on Ebook Formatting
- “How E-Books Have Changed the Print Marketplace: Digital Book World, Day 3” on Jane Friedman
- “Ebooks, E- Reader, Digitial Publishing, Pre-Press, E-learning, HTML5, Books and Publishing” on LinkedIn
- “The evolving content and production publishing pipeline” on Movemen
- Regular Expressions in Perl
- Resources for eBook Developers
Examples
- The Cabbage Tree Method
- “EPUB 3 Samples: Now Showing – All EPUB 3 Features” on IDPF
- “Writing EPUB 3 – Samples of fixed and flowing ebooks with Japanese text” on Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis