Newly updated and enhanced (2020)guide into the essentials of composing and publishing for eBooks. Geared to independent publishers and authors,The Kitprovides user-friendlyinstructions on how to set up a master file for conversion into optimized pdfs, ePub, xhtml, and Fixed Layout formats, how to promote via social networks, and how to upload to distributors such as Amazon, Apple and Kobo. The latest information on how to include multimedia elements such as audio and video in your project, or go the next step by creating audiobooks and video-enhanced works. By popular demand, now also available in a print edition.
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Yur eBook Survival Kit, 4th ed.
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Your eBook Survival Kit
1. An eBook is an eBook is an eBook?
It isn’t. eBooks come in all shapes, sizes and capabilities. An eBook can comprise text on its own, or it can conspire with images, sound, animation and even interactivity. What you can do in composing your eBook is limited only by your imagination. Or, if you plan to publish yourself, by your technical expertise.
First, a bit of history. eBooks have actually been around for a long...
Table of contents
- Author’s Note
- Contents
- Key Terms
- eMyths and eRealities
- 1. An eBook is an eBook is an eBook?
- 2. One eBook Reader is much the same as another?
- 3. Once you create a pdf, do you have an eBook?
- 4. Is Conversion a religious experience?
- 5. Keeping it Real: Quality Control
- 6. KISS and eBook Design
- 7. Can one size fit all?
- 8. Beyond eBooks
- 9. What about Costs?
- 10. Once you publish an eBook, you just sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in, right?
- 11. Contracts and other legalities
- Epilogue: Moving Forward
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