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    EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders

    • EPUB Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereaders

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    • Publisher: Peachpit Press

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    • Print ISBN-10: 0-321-73468-8

    • Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-73468-6

    • Web ISBN-10: 0-13-236697-5

    • Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-236697-7

    • Pages in Print Edition: 192

    • Subscriber Rating: 5 out of 5 rating5 [4 Ratings] Subscriber Reviews

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    Overview

    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.

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    Average Rating: 5 out of 5 rating Based on 4 Ratings

    "Clear, Concise, Informative" - by ChaliceMedia on 07-OCT-2010
    Reviewer Rating: 1 star rating2 star rating3 star rating4 star rating5 star rating
    This book is both a quick-read overview and a handy reference for the guts of an ePub file.

    It contains two detailed chapters on the most widely-used tools for creating source documents, Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, along with a chapter that breaks down the ePub format in detail and a chapter that provides a number of tips, tricks and gotcha handlers.

    My only regret is being out on an island vacation when it arrived in the mail, and having to wait ten days to read it. B^)
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