Bluntly put: it’s time to get the IT department out of the basement and into a big open-plan office with your designers and editors. Where printed books required book-printing specialists to talk to editors and designers, ebooks require those editors and designers to work alongside technical specialists. Here are some of the key issues they’ll be talking about.
ABCs
Creating PDF ebooks
Creating epub from InDesign
Digital decisions: What book publishers should know about ebooks
Technology decisions
Rights and royalty decisions
Product decisions
Administrative decisions
Workflow decisions
Sales and marketing decisions
Epub production tips
Self-publishing ebooks
Simple-ebook operational issues
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