DRM - Stands for Digital Rights Management, and is used to protect
the contents of an eBook file.
Not exact matches
Our
ebook conversion service includes delivery
of final Kindle (mobi) and ePub
files, complete with your embedded cover art, and a full table
of contents.
[7] For example the OPF «manifest» flle that tells ereaders what is in the
ebook and where to find it within the
ebook's internal structure; and the NCX
file in ePub2 and some ePub3
files that give ereaders the navigation / table
of contents info.
An
ebook includes what you might call a system table
of contents, so the
ebook reader devices can do a drop - down table
of contents.The notion is that in an
ebook — because you don't have the tactile setup
of pages that you would have in a physical book where you know where you are — in
ebooks you want to make it easy for people to get to the parts
of a book, and having a table
of contents file is the easiest way to do that.
The notion is that in an
ebook — because you don't have the tactile setup
of pages that you would have in a physical book where you know where you are — in
ebooks you want to make it easy for people to get to the parts
of a book, and having a table
of contents file is the easiest way to do that.
Naturally you will first have to build an ePub version
of your book for this to show up, but when you select it, a new window will open showing you the structure
of the
eBook on the left hand side and the
file contents at the center.
After you upload your
eBook files you'll now find a table
of contents preview that will let you see how everything will be ordered in your NCX.
For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer
of public - domain
ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle
files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some
of those
ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage
of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables
of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality
of individual
ebook productions varies greatly.
Authors should send us their
eBook manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single
file: title page (if not using a jpeg), copyright page, table
of contents, other books by author, dedication and / or acknowledgements, foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), a statement announcing end
of book and beginning
of a teaser chapter (optional), the teaser chapter
of next book (optional), statement saying «End
of Sample Chapter» with link where readers can learn / buy book, and author bio.
Since it is an HTML
file, all the same styling dos and don'ts that apply to your
eBook's content HTML apply to the HTML Table
of Contents.
This leaves unsatisfactory results, because the MOBI
file now contains a dead link to the cover which is not supposed to be listed in the Table
of Contents for MOBI
eBooks.
It tells the ereader where to find all
of the rest
of the
files in the
ebook, what order to display them in, and what role each item serves (e.g. cover image, table
of contents, etc..)
Users are able see the
contents of PDF
files as their authors intended, in their favorite EPUB3 - compatible
eBook reading environment.
If you have a complex Word
files, when ready to start, there is no need to take out table and image
of Contents in your Word documents, this program can be able to automatically generate it based on headings, all
of your elements will be retained after conversion, the output
ebooks can be read on a wide variety
of screen sizes that it's generally impossible.
Calibre can convert many
ebook formats as well as collate multiple HTML pages into a single
ebook file with an automatically generated table
of contents.
It also contains the Custom Fields - Genres - where you can assign multiple genres to the book - Authors - where you can add one or several authors - Tags - where you can add some tags - Description - any book description in Rich Text format -
Contents - book's Table of contents - Files - allows to link ebook file (s) to the book and perform various operations with it - Front (Back) Cover - allows to link cover picture to the book and perform various operatio
Contents - book's Table
of contents - Files - allows to link ebook file (s) to the book and perform various operations with it - Front (Back) Cover - allows to link cover picture to the book and perform various operatio
contents -
Files - allows to link
ebook file (s) to the book and perform various operations with it - Front (Back) Cover - allows to link cover picture to the book and perform various operations on it
This defines the NCX Table
of Contents for the
eBook, and the ncx value is the id declared for the toc.ncx
file in the Manifest Section.
Why
ebooks are too dumb to be able to randomly access the
contents of a zip
file is beyond me, but then, so is using an easy - to - use EPub compiler.
Unless you're simply uploading a text
file that has no chapters, table
of contents or images, taking the time to format your
eBook is crucial.
The essential thing here is that your
ebook's table
of contents (also known as an NCX
file) needs to have the title as the first entry.
The Linked ToC is what our Meatgrinder conversion engine will use to create a linked ToC inside your
ebook, and an NCX
file (an external table
of contents) that readers can use on nearly any e-reading device or in any app.
Filed Under: Author Tools & Tips, Formatting, HTML Tagged With:
ebook cover, EPUB formatting, kindle formatting, table
of contents, word formatting
Current
ebook design presumes that all the
contents of a work are loaded into a single
file package, downloadable to a reading system that might be a smartphone, tablet, or dedicated e-reader.