Liz Castro, the author of ePUB: Straight to the Point, has just released an new miniguide available in ePUB or Mobi titled Using InDesign to adapt plain text to ePUB. Castro describes the miniguide as: There was a chapter that I…Continue Reading →
’Tis the season of digital book publishing conferences, and with them come some opportunities to learn about ePUB 3.0 and receive some training on creating them. Digital Book World 2012 Digital Book World 2012was last week in New York City,…Continue Reading →
Liz Castro has a great post on making poetry look good across multiple devices using media queries in ePUB, “Media Queries for Formatting Poetry on Kindle and ePUB.” Castro focuses most of the post on how to use media queries to…Continue Reading →
On December 7, 2011, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) issued their BISG Policy Statement POL-1101: Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products. Digital Book World has a nice summary of the report in their post “New ISBN Recommendations to Lay Groundwork…Continue Reading →
There are a couple links to new posts this week I want to share with everyone. Both should help you create better ePUBs. InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB Workflow One is from Colleen Cunningham (@BookDesignGirl) at Adams Media. She shares an image of…Continue Reading →
When converting the InDesign file of a book created for print, you need to be aware of the choices the print designer made, including how and where they have used forced line breaks and forced hyphenation. If these tools were…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Iris Febres, a graduate student in electronic publishing at Emerson College. It is based on a PowerPoint presentation she did in her class that was also a Tweetsentation during #ePrdctn Hour. So . ….Continue Reading →