EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders (One-Off)

Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on e-readers. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating ebooks for AppleвЂTMs iPad, Barnes & NobleвЂTMs Nook, and other EPUB-capable readers, but it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools. This exhaustively researched guide to creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files—with Word, InDesign or from scratch, make the files look great on screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors.

Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools. This extensively researched guide to creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors. In this essential book, Liz shares her hard-earned experience for how to:

• Create EPUB files from existing Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign files, or from scratch.
• Tweak EPUB files to take full advantage of the power of EPUB in each respective ereader.
• Control spacing, indents, and margins.
• Insert images and sidebars and wrap text around them.
• Create links to external sources and cross-references to internal ones.
• Add video to ebooks for the iPad.
  

Annotation Start building ePub books NOW with this guide from bestselling HTML author Elizabeth Castro. & bull; & bull;Author Elizabeth Castro has sold more than three quarters of a million books on HTML. & bull;With more than 250,000 ebooks downloaded on the iPad's iBookstore during its first day of sale, and with 1.43 million e-readers sold in Q1 of 2010, the flood gates are open for electronic books. & bull;This book is project based and walks readers through how to create an ebook using the ePub specification. This project-based book will walk the reader through the creation of an ebook using the ePub specification. Liz Castro will cover the principle characteristics of an ePub ebook, how to design the layout, and what the specification can and can't handle. Liz will show readers how to build an ePub book both through coding a book by hand and with Adobe InDesign. She will show readers how to test their files and get it ready for publishing. Liz will also look at advanced topics, including DRM and multimedia