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Publishers and authors use Pressbooks to create professionally designed books, without having to hire a designer or ebook developer.

Joshua Tallent, the company's Founder and CEO, has been an eBook developer since 2002 and regularly speaks at conferences about eBooks and related subjects.

Formatting eBooks for the Amazon Kindle is a challenge for anyone, even a veteran eBook developer like me.

She is also a freelance ebook developer for publishers throughout North America.

News — Voices of BookExpo America: Joshua Tallent of eBook Architects (which is hiring — contact them if you are an eBook developer interested in a position with a growing business based in scenic Austin, Texas) and the eBook Ninjas podcast; Jon Land, author of Strong Vengeance, a Caitlin Strong Novel, on Digital Rights Management, and Benjamin Schrager, an independent book sales representative from the Bronx who has attended every BEA meeting and their predecessors except one since 1968.

All an editor needs to do is correctly mark up a manuscript so the ebook developer can apply the correct EPUB type.

This is a great thrill both for the hard - working Digital Publishing department at KCP, and for their partner ebook developer, Laura Brady at Brady Type.

I came as an ebook developer and interested observer; someone directly involved in W3C work would surely report on the proceedings very differently.

I got my start in eBooks in 2002 as an eBook developer at WORDsearch, a Bible software company.

Joshua Tallent, the Chief eBook Architect at Firebrand Technologies, has been an eBook developer since 2002 and is a well - known eBook expert and teacher.

Good eReader first met ebook developer and retailer at BookExpo America several years ago, and in that time the German ebook retailer has been quietly growing its brand and its user base.

A release from ebook developer Vook today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and sell their titles on one of the largest retail platforms for ebooks.

This Guest Post is from Jiminy Panoz, French ebook developer extraordinaire.

Rising up to meet this market, tools like our platform, Pressbooks.com, were created to overcome the one remaining hurdle for everyday authors: formatting a book — a task that previously required a graphic designer and an ebook developer.

The files you create at Pressbooks automatically meet the technical standards for digital and print books, without you having to learn those rules, hire an ebook developer or commission a graphic designer.

The ebook developer community is full of people who are professionals trying to make the most beautiful and innovative ebooks possible given the restraints, obfuscations, variability, and voodoo - code of the device world we make them for.

It used to be that to get your book in the right format for ebookstores and print - on - demand and make it look good, you needed an ebook developer (different and potentially more expensive than a Web developer — here's why) plus a graphic designer for your interior book file.

Pressbooks is an online platform authors can use to easily and affordably format and print their books and book covers without the aid of a graphic designer or ebook developer.

«A good ebook developer will know that the author has put their heart and soul into writing their book and he or she will be able to take that book in whatever format the author provides and then lovingly hand - craft an ebook version for them which will honour their work and get it to the devices of readers who will appreciate it too.»

You don't have to hire a designer or ebook developer.

Even more impressively, ebook developer Vook had two titles standing at the ready, Why Romney Lost and Why Obama Lost, both books having been written, edited, and formatted for digital devices in advance of the election.

Therefore, «due to the fact that any experienced designer will start with a fully formatted print edition produced in InDesign» may be true but any experienced Ebook developer will get out of InDesign ASAP.

His background in design and love for technology make him a great left - brain, right - brain balance of book designer and ebook developer.

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.

That's why you need an ebook developer instead of a Web developer if you're going to hire someone to manually create your ebook.

If you're creating an ebook manually, you need an ebook developer, not just a Web developer.

Sérgio Teixeira, a designer and ebook developer working in Porto, Portugal, shows us some features of the... Continue Reading →

Writer, Wanderluster, Ebook developer, Santa Barbara & California lover, NYU alum.

writer, wanderluster, ebook developer, UCSB and NYU alum, co-dinosaur obsessor at http://iknowdino.com, blogger at http://digitalpubbing.com

Taught by Sabrina Ricci, an indie author and ebook developer who has worked for Simon & Schuster, NBC Publishing, and The Experiment Publishing.

Create high - quality, professional ebooks using Sigil and other free tools, taught by an ebook developer.

In an announcement today, long - time children's content creator Highlights for Children stated that it has signed a deal with ebook developer INscribe Digital to digitize and distribute its content.

An ebook developer will push fixed - layout projects away from trim sizes that will be letter - boxed badly on tablets, instead directing them toward aspect ratios that maximize screen real estate.

So editors, go ahead and invite an ebook developer to your next planning meeting.

A savvy ebook developer will ferret away descriptions of the commissioned illustrations that can be used later for the descriptive ALT text.

She talks about the importance of hiring an editor, how writers can find and work with print designers and ebook developers, the annoyances InDesign users endure cleaning up Word files, and more.

In practice, an ebook developers» influence can be as small as thinking ahead to keeping the color versions of images that will later be converted to grayscale for print so they can be returned to color for the ebook, or to reminding editors that a yellow, low - contrast cover is going to disappear on an e-ink device.

Some eBook developers use Dropbox as a temporary location for EPUB files, and load them into iBooks (and other devices) from their Dropbox account.

There's no right answer to this question, and different ebook developers will come to different solutions.

In fact, AnneMarie Concepcion has a section in her lynda.com EPUB course regarding Dreamweaver and how it can be a useful tool for ebook developers.

The mission of ebook developers and publishers is a pretty darn cool and noble one, if you ask me: crafting pure information, pure knowledge, so that it can be readable by everyone....

Like most professional eBook developers, we have created a proprietary workflow that we can use for almost any project that comes our way, so we have a lot of control over our final output.

Last year, I heard ebook developers talk about turning Dr. Seuss books into ebooks.

Sure, but it is solid enough for ebook developers to produce what are the best quality EPUB Files in something like 50 + countries — files made using other tools don't even come close... Really... You can trust me, my job partly consisting of reviewing (a very very large amount of) EPUB files quality.

So ebook developers need to do QA on apps on iOS and Android apps, as well as devices, to make sure your readers are seeing what you want them to.

Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content.

You don't have to hire freelance designers or ebook developers.

Penguins profit is up to about 60 million dollars for this year so far and poises itself to be one of the leading ebook developers on the market.

Pressbooks is a leader in democratizing publishing for independent authors, making it possible for writers to format their books without the (costly) services of ebook developers and graphic designers.

eBook Architects no longer creates eBook files, but we would love to refer you to professional eBook developers who can help you.