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  • ABCs
    • ‘The once and future e-book’ by John Siracusa
    • Reading ebooks
    • Print-on-demand basics
    • Ebook formats
    • Ebook design
    • Ebook distribution
    • Ebook-technology layers
    • XML primer
  • Creating PDF ebooks
    • Working on the source files
    • Working on the PDF
  • Creating epub from InDesign
    • General tips and resources
    • Preparing to prepare InDesign documents
    • What to expect after exporting to epub
    • Working in InDesign
      • One story flow
      • Pagination and master pages
      • Images and objects
      • Fonts
      • Thinking ahead: styles and tag names
      • Text alignment
      • Background colours
      • The table of contents
      • File sizes
      • Metadata
      • Multimedia
      • Cover
      • The Export to Epub dialog box
      • Troubleshooting export to epub
    • 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
      • File formats
      • Data-asset-management systems
      • Metadata
      • Digital Rights Management
    • Rights and royalty decisions
      • Territory
      • Royalties
    • Product decisions
      • Backlist conversions vs frontlist plans
      • Publishing and software development
    • Administrative decisions
      • Identifiers (ISBNs, UUIDs, URLs)
      • Reporting and tracking sales
      • Tracking production and marketing costs
    • Workflow decisions
      • Changes to editorial and design processes
      • Managing in-house learning and knowledge
      • Expertise and functional authority
      • A format-agnostic workflow
    • Sales and marketing decisions
      • Pricing models
      • Partners and findability
      • Sales and delivery processes
    • Survey: What are you thinking?
    • Conclusion
  • Embracing digital: Changes and opportunities in educational publishing
  • Epub production tips
    • Small caps
    • Superscript and subscript
    • Embedding video and audio
  • Self-publishing ebooks
    • Creating ebooks for self-publishing
    • DRM and self-publishing
    • Ebook distribution for self-publishers
    • Marketing a self-published ebook
  • Simple-ebook operational issues
    • Adobe DRM: a guide for publishers
    • Simple-ebook structure
      • Order of ebook parts
      • Changes to ebook parts
      • Changing content in print and ebook editions
    • Checking ebooks
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