As an ebook designer, I agree 100 % with this article.
As an eBook designer, BB eBooks hopes to bring the social aspect of reading for our clients to connect and reward your readers.
As an ebook designer, I tend to set the first - open page to whatever the first page of content is... if for no other reason than the vast majority of the authors with whom my company works want it that way.
Most automatic conversion programs horribly mangle the toc.ncx, so you will distinguish
yourself as an eBook designer by learning how this XML works.
Not exact matches
The
eBook has been designed
as a job - aid to Instructional
Designers and helps them bridge the gap between theory and application.
You cover
designer should be able to make one fairly cheaply with the same elements
as your
ebook).
As a former engineer and software
designer of 15 years, April enjoys immersing herself in
ebook, Print on Demand and other emerging publishing technologies for self - published authors.
That conversion ability made Calibre a very handy for
ebook designers as well, and so an ePub - editing utility was added a couple of years back.
As a designer, I try to put as much of the feel of a real book into an eBook as possibl
As a
designer, I try to put
as much of the feel of a real book into an eBook as possibl
as much of the feel of a real book into an
eBook as possibl
as possible.
«I love reading
ebooks, but
as an obsessive, pedantic
designer type, I couldn't help thinking that the actual experience of reading a book on a screen, although good enough, could be so much better.
Pressbooks makes sure your book meets complex
ebook and print - on - demand standards
as well
as the Chicago Manual of Style recommendations for book formatting, without you hiring a graphic
designer or
ebook developer or learning these skills yourself.
While a book layout
designer may be able to create the text - based
eBook edition (and some may offer that
as an additional service), usually choosing someone who can do simple textbook formatting in a Word document will usually be less expensive.
(And
as Joel complimented my cover
designer for the covers of The Crystal Warrior and Freaks of Greenfield High when I submitted them for his October
eBook cover design awards, I think I'm on the right track.)
As Jason Matthews noted in Ebooks: What a Long Strange Trip on The Book Designer, Amazon didn't launch the Kindle (and therefore the e-book market as we now know it) until 200
As Jason Matthews noted in
Ebooks: What a Long Strange Trip on The Book
Designer, Amazon didn't launch the Kindle (and therefore the e-book market
as we now know it) until 200
as we now know it) until 2007.
I generally use a print interior
designer as it's not my favorite thing to do, although I do my own
ebooks on Vellum.
Although intended for a free, or promotional,
ebook, Joel Friedlander, aka The Book
Designer, invested
as much care in its design
as if it were for a hard cover book destined for the top of the New York Times» bestsellers list.
While we still urge all writers to produce the highest quality, using editors and proofreaders, cover
designers, and formatters
as needed, there is no reason why you can't publish every
eBook you write.
As a publishing consultant, she helps authors get their books into the world by working in print - on - demand and ebook publishing as a book designer and project manage
As a publishing consultant, she helps authors get their books into the world by working in print - on - demand and
ebook publishing
as a book designer and project manage
as a book
designer and project manager.
If you hire an interior book
designer, make sure to obtain the original Word or InDesign files
as well
as the final PDF and
eBook files.
We will work with your inhouse
designers to meet your exact requirements and we pride ourselves on achieving a finished product that is
as near to a printed book
as an
eBook can be.
As an aside, I just had a book cover for one of my new
ebooks designed by someone who charged me around $ 25 (after I gave the cover
designer my concept for the cover).
While
designers struggle with
eBook formats, and everyone looks to the Kindle for ease of use and the iPad for the future of books combined with rich media, the humble book -
as - app has been gaining steam.
It was supposed to be a way for
eBook designers to annotate where commonly used sections such
as footnotes, the bibliography, and index were located in the HTML, so that the reader could have easy access to them on her device.
It would be nice if there were the option of using the
eBook designer's styles
as is.
I want
eBook designers to be able to follow the OPS spec and design a beautiful
eBook and be confident that eReaders will display their books
as designed.
PORTLAND, OR — Independent
eBook distributor now offers affordable cover concepts created by award - winning graphic
designers in
as fast
as two days.
If you end up working with a design agency, chances are they aren't
as specialized
as a cover
designer who is used to working within the
ebook and print design specifications.
As an
ebook cover
designer, I attempt to stay updated on this matter.
Luckily, my sister - in - law, Deborah Mansfield, worked in London
as a high - flying graphic
designer at the time and although she did anything but
ebook covers at work, I thought I had nothing to lose asking if she could help.
I've openly recommended CreateSpace
as a strategy for many clients
as a test, stepping stone, even a way to enter the publishing world with the giant Amazon in play — but, and always a but in the mix — there has to be editing, get a professional cover done and yes, lay it out — don't do the template Amazon version... than have the layout
designer do the uploading — for less than $ 3,000 (most likely), you have quality cover design, interior, editing and you are rocking and rolling with the big boys — you get max percentage on
eBook payout, you have print books available on demand and you can start marketing your work and words like crazy.
Most
ebooks start off
as print books, so book
designers are still busy.
As Pottermore adds Kobo as a Harry Potter e-book partner, and apparently Moglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks, there's A Humorous Yet Truthful Look at Publishing, and The Book Designer is asking: Are You Trying to Create an «Impossible» Boo
As Pottermore adds Kobo
as a Harry Potter e-book partner, and apparently Moglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks, there's A Humorous Yet Truthful Look at Publishing, and The Book Designer is asking: Are You Trying to Create an «Impossible» Boo
as a Harry Potter e-book partner, and apparently Moglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive
Ebooks, there's A Humorous Yet Truthful Look at Publishing, and The Book
Designer is asking: Are You Trying to Create an «Impossible» Book?
Seeing the
ebook craze, we thought from the
designer's perspective
as to how they can learn to create beautiful
ebook cover designs and came up with the list of best
ebook cover design tutorials that ensure to be of great help.
You're not likely to make much per book, but thanks to the economics of the digital bookstore, you are likely to make a sizable amount — so long
as you gather a small team of editors and
designers, and focus on releasing
as many
ebooks as possible.
As well as indicating which designers to hire and whether to employ one at all, the eBook cover awards are also useful for discovering common features that make effective cover
As well
as indicating which designers to hire and whether to employ one at all, the eBook cover awards are also useful for discovering common features that make effective cover
as indicating which
designers to hire and whether to employ one at all, the
eBook cover awards are also useful for discovering common features that make effective covers.
You'll be asked to choose an
ebook publisher
as part of the brief building process so
designers know what specifications to work from.
I read this one
as an
ebook, but the «dead tree» version has been designed quite beautifully and is a real work of art (see the last video in this blog post by Simon Fodden on book jacket
designer Chip Kidd).