For the competition, we
invited ebook designers near and far to tackle a messy EPUB and turn it into a glorious, beautifully designed, platform - agnostic, fully accessible ebook.
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.
And I'm certainly not going to license InDesign for an entire staff
of ebook designers anticipating the day the work flow from print - to - ebook makes more sense.
Our
expert eBook designers will examine your uploaded manuscript to create a custom layout that matches the theme and message of your eBook.
Now we're in a chicken - and - egg fight:
if ebook designers would include more complex design elements (and eliminate unnecessary margins), the makers of ebook reading system would be more motivated to fix their margin bugs and add more CSS support.
With the partnership with
interactive ebook designers and the ability to market the title through the App store along with every other ebook, the possibility of reaching global audiences with a cost - effective but engaging title was realized.
This is a plea from the heart to all of the page - layout / book - design folks out there on behalf of us
lowly ebook designers, but it's also, I'm afraid, a bit of a rant.
To avoid hours of hassle getting tangled up in HTML codes and get your eBook published now, let us be your
trustworthy eBook designer.
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.
In contrast with the previous mistake, it is very common for
newbie ebook designers to go overboard and try to cram hundreds of different elements onto the page.
The Meatgrinder was the bane
of eBook designers, publishers, and authors alike for quite some time, but luckily Smashwords changed their strategy...
Our
expert eBook designers will first examine your uploaded manuscript to create a custom layout that matches the theme and message of your eBook.
Professional Editor,
eBook designer, Ghostwriter, Transcriptionist, Author's Assistant, and Author.
Quite a few reading system vendors are hostile to
ebook designers, override the stylesheets that come with the ebooks, or otherwise make the designer's life very difficult.
These days word processors try to do too much and obscure too much in the process with their glossy varnish — from the point of view of
an eBook designer, that is.
Pro Tip: If you aren't sure what front or back matter to include, ask
your ebook designer.
Using a conversion service or
ebook designer is always an option, and I'll discuss later how to choose one.
The problem is that when
an ebook designer takes your book and converts it into HTML (since ebooks are just self - contained web pages), those little adjustments lose their meaning and are treated for what they are: spaces in the middle of words or paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences.
As
an ebook designer, I agree 100 % with this article.
I am
an ebook designer and have been reading the comments here with interest.
Concentrate on doing what you do best — writing saleable stories — and hire a professional
ebook designer.
It didn't help that Smashwords offered no testing platform for
eBook designers and DIY authors.
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.
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.
PS: A secret for
ebook designers: While there are a lot of techniques the creator of a reading system can use to alter the CSS from an ePub, the most standards - compliant way you can make your voice heard is to use the!
The problem (from the perspective of a reading system) is this: readers need top - level margins to make the text digestible, but we can never unambiguously tell if
the ebook designer has already included top - level margins in the design.
Stumbled across a thread on the Amazon Forum (link at the end of the post) that has a To Do list for Kindle 3 and
ebook designers and combining that with my Kindle 3 Wishlist and looking at --
In the next section we will take a look at practical regular expressions for
eBook designers that will help you make short work out of eBook design.