Save money and design, develop, and complete your own e Book manuscript from start to finish-the right way.
A step-by-step guide to understanding and creating an e Book manuscript and EPUB file, e Book Design & Development: The Right Way from Start to Finish contains all the information needed to design, develop, and complete an e Book manuscript using Microsoft Word. The book provides a linear approach to understanding and creating e Books.
Most resources fail to address all the information needed to complete an e Book from start to finish, leaving readers with questions and contradictory information. Questions still needed answering, for instance, including: How do you create an EPUB from a Microsoft Word manuscript? What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a PDF vs. DOC(X) when converting to an e Book? Without using a service, how does one setup an e Book manuscript in Microsoft Word properly (i.e., proper format settings such as margins, font and paragraph styles, appropriate font sizes, the dos and don’ts, etc.)?
Answers to these questions and more are provided in this book for creating an e Book manuscript and EPUB file. After in-depth research and compiling all the necessary information, this ‘how to’ book will explain in detail everything needed to design and develop your own professional and engaging e Book manuscript and EPUB file for submitting to online publishers.
Easy to navigate. No HTML or CSS prior experience or knowledge needed. Provides educational value sourced from leading e Book manuscript conversion publishing companies. Provides graphics to help understand the content and e Book/EPUB process. This ‘How to’ book is for anyone, especially authors, who want useful information in one place in learning how to design, develop, and complete an e Book the right way. Get this book and save money by designing and developing your own professional e Book manuscript and well-formatted EPUB file the right way from start to finish.
Key aspects you will learn from the book:
- e Book recommendations and limitations.
- How to apply quality assurance and accessibility guidelines for e Books.
- How to avoid EPUB file rejections, a must read.
- How to check your final EPUB file for errors before submitting to online publishers and retailers.
- How to create a ‘classic’ and linkable table of contents.
- How to create a final, well-formatted, submission-ready EPUB file to e Book publishing platforms.
- How to create font and paragraph styles.
- How to fix common EPUB errors and warnings.
- How to set up and write an e Book manuscript (step-by-step) using Microsoft Word.
- How to test e Books using publishing industry standards checklists.
- How to use publishing tools for e Book previewing and testing, including Calibre, Draft2Digital, and Kindle Previewer.
- How to validate an EPUB file using online EPUB validators.
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What is an e Book?
What is Reflowable Text?
Benefits of Publishing e Books
Disadvantages of Publishing e Books
Will an e Book Look Exactly Like the Print Book?
Fixed Layout e Books
How to Write an e Book (Step by Step)
Microsoft Word Document Set Up
Formatting Tables as Images
How to Create an e Book Cover
Internal Cover Image
Internal Back Cover Specifications
e Book Quality Assurance and Testing
Accessibility Guidelines
Preferred e Book File Outputs
Converting the Manuscript to EPUB
How to Create an EPUB File in Calibre
Avoid EPUB File Rejections
EPUB Validation
Fixing EPUB Errors and Warnings in Calibre
e Book EPUB Testing
Uploading, Releasing, and Distributing the e Book
e Book Recommendations and Limitations
Frequently Asked Questions
Bibliography: Research
Resources
About the Authors
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Jon O’Bergh is the bestselling author of Shockadelica, and co-author of Elliptical: The Music of Meshell Ndegeocello. His written work has earned Horror recognition, including receiving 5-star reviews. As a musician, he’s produced over a dozen albums, including the companion album to the book Shockadelica titled Box of Bones, under the name The Bone Man. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Visit Jon’s website at www.obergh.net.