Do research
the different ebook vendors and distributors and decide where you would like to distribute your book.
Therefore, when publishing at
the different eBook vendors, the metadata that gets entered separately during the upload process is usually more important than anything that is embedded in the eBook package.
Many of
the different eBook vendors have «quirks,» so the code is actually slightly different in each eBook.
Not exact matches
You have your book available as an
eBook (possibly in
different eBook formats available from multiple
vendors) and paper.
This means that in the coming months we are going to see a transition by
different platforms and
eBook vendors to ePUB 3.0.
I like this, because it allows me to explain the
different professionals you might engage in the process as well, and what the «final» product needs to look like — before you get it printed, or uploaded to the
ebook vendor.
(Why
ebook vendors aren't doing more interesting things on Android where they aren't held back by the platform owner's policies is beyond me, but that's a blog post for a
different day.)
And it gets even more acute with Smashwords, where the
ebooks are distributed to
different vendors altogether.
The final step is to take all the image assets, fonts (if any), content, and stylesheet and create the
eBooks for the
different vendors.
Therefore,
different content is required for your
eBook for each
different vendor if you would like to use buy links.
Additionally, most customers require a wide variety of
different eBook editions for
different vendors (an EPUB for Google Play, an EPUB for Smashwords, a MOBI / KF8 for Amazon, etc.) and changing a single typo requires making a change to each and every one of those editions (a drudge of a task).
Therefore, it is advised to keep the content the same for the actual body of the
eBook for all editions, but use
different back matter (and a
different copyright page) for the
different vendors.
Creatavist is also a publishing site, which means you can publish your
ebook to
different vendors, like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, directly from the site.
Rather than navigating their patrons away from the library's web presence to Balkanized, often commercial, third - party platforms, each with a
different discovery and delivery experience, librarians have been demanding a single, easy - to - use, easy - to - search platform — an integration of the ILS with
ebook vendor platforms.
Many of our clients utilize BB
eBooks» services because we can build
different eBooks for each
vendor.