The EBW Knowledge Base
Here’s some reference material on digital publishing that we’ve developed. It’s not comprehensive, and we don’t claim it’s best practice or silver-bullet info. Like most things in digital publishing, it’s a work in progress. Nonetheless, we hope you find it useful.
- ABCs
- Creating PDF ebooks
- Creating epub from InDesign
- General tips and resources
- Preparing to prepare InDesign documents
- What to expect after exporting to epub
- Working in InDesign
- After InDesign export to epub
- Get inside the epub
- Add a cover
- Add fonts to the package, manifest and CSS
- Check the quality of the images
- Check the order of book parts
- Page breaks
- Spaces
- Check the epub Table of Contents
- Add ADE page-template file
- Check metadata
- Embedding multi/rich media
- Change heading tags to structured HTML (optional, CS3 only)
- Zip the epub again
- Test the epub
- Designing for Digital: What print-book designers should know…
- Digital decisions: What book publishers should know about ebooks
- An overview of the digital publishing industry worldwide
- What is an ebook?
- Exercise: What do you sell when copies are free?
- Technology decisions
- Rights and royalty decisions
- Product decisions
- Administrative decisions
- Workflow decisions
- Sales and marketing decisions
- Survey: What are you thinking?
- Conclusion
- Embracing digital: Changes and opportunities in educational publishing
- Epub production tips
- Self-publishing ebooks
- Simple-ebook operational issues
- Other resources
- The EBW Knowledge Base
