But, if you've spent all of your time learning how to write (and
make epub files) then it can seem daunting to turn around and learn how to market a book.
You can
make epub files as big as you like, according to the spec.
When people do
make ePub files, they usually farm the task out, saying it's too painful to create in - house.
I don't envision it necessarily becoming a conversion tool that
makes your EPUB files for you, but I do envision it becoming the best tool to use when doing QA and updating EPUB files created anywhere else.
It takes the optional but important parts of the EPUB3 spec and makes recommendations on ways to
make your EPUB file better.
The primary advantage BOL has, is that they sell their content with Social DRM and Digital Watermarks, thereby
making the EPUB files able to be loaded on any e-reader, tablet or smartphone.
I would also point out that not only Pages, but OS X Lion itself has standard ePub tools for
making ePub files.
Making your EPUB file was already pretty easy.
And so while you may
make an EPUB file that looks really good on Sony reader, it may not look the same, actually probably won't look the same on the iPhone in say the stanza application.
While this is semantically correct, and is the way to create the NCX when you are
making an ePub file, the Kindle will ignore nested items when it is creating the waypoints in the progress bar.
Not exact matches
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Questions / comments: * How would you handle
making the link between the
EPUB and the PDF, also as a
file on the CD?
Scrivener doesn't directly support converting Markdown sources into
ePub files, but with some extra scaffolding you can
make this work.
The whole process is designed specifically for
making a clean, approved
epub file that will help you to reach your readers.
Useful for users wanting to
make EPUBs only and who want to open the
file to edit code by hand.
This, Aquafadas claims will
make it easy for publishers to convert PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
files into apps,
ePUBs and Web Reader
files.
iBooks will even display DRM - free
Epub files you can
make yourself or download from the Internet.
Together, they
make Calibre the one app that allows you to go all of the way from importing a Word doc to converting the
file to
ePub to cleaning up the
file that results.
Also a free program (click here to get it) Sigil lets you open up
epub files and
make changes.
We hope that this site will become a trusted location for the best tricks, tips, and secrets for
making high - quality
ePUB files.
I strongly encourage you to buy a copy of Liz Castro's book
ePUB: Straight to the point, preferably in
ePUB: http://www.elizabethcastro.com/
epub/ By buying the
ePUB, which is DRM - free, you can actually open Liz's
ePUB files that
make up the book and see what she has done.
Their hope is that this blog will document steps you can take to
make better
ePUBs and provide you with a public forum to discuss best practices and issues facing those who create
ePUB files.
What you need to know before you upload your
file: • Supported
file types:
epub, doc, docx, mobi, odt (
file size can not exceed 10 MB) • Kobo converts all
files to e-pub format • If your
file is a doc, docx, mobi, or odt, check Kobo's Conversion Guidelines to be sure that all formatting and chapter markers
make it into the e-pub version.
DIGITAL BOOK AWARD CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS: Ebook Flowable — These
files are
made in
ePub and / or KF8 without utilizing features such as audio, video, HTML5, Javascript, fixed layout, pop - outs, etc., in order to work on a wide variety of e-reading devices.
Just
make sure your final XHTML
file in your
epub is smaller than 300KB when uncompressed, and 100KB compressed.
i've
made a link for them (users) to download our
epub and pdf
files.
(You can also just use the
epub file you've
made; you'll have to use Sigil to add «Smashwords Edition» to the front.)
I think everyone will agree that being caught between retailers who render the same
ePUB file differently, different specifications from Amazon and Apple, and the difficulty of
making media queries and multiple CSS
files work properly on all devices is distressing.
You load your Word document into
ePub Maker, press «
Make ePub,» and voila, you have an
ePub file
To
make that magic happen, you'll need to create an
ePub file, edit it, and upload it.
The client B&N provides is in fact a slightly mutated version of the older Fictionwise client, which B&N updated to
make it able to read
EPUB files — but it's buggy and unreliable.
Recently, french customers discovered Kobo (associated with reseller Fnac) altered
EPUB files, forced their own CSS stylesheet and some JavaScript in it, and
made it a KePub
file.
I now use word 2013 and I do wish that they had a feature that
made epub and mobi
files.
I don't understand why not but any way I use Jutoh to
make my
epub and mobi
files and it works pretty good.
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 qua
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 qua
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 qua
files quality.
In regards to the UID, you can
make that pretty much anything as you create your
ePub — the UID in the toc.ncx
file and the content.opf
file just have to match each other for the
ePub to function.
I'm currently working on the
ePUB version so I can
make it available via B&N and Goodreads, but have run into some challenges with creating / converting the
file.
This was designed to
make changes to the security of of
ePub and PDF
Files.
PLUS — If you want a valid KINDLE version for upload you only need to
make a minor modification to your
EPUB file.
You'll need to
make your own
ePub file and
make any necessary improvements until is passes ePubCheck 1.0.5.
And the
ePub file itself is nothing more than a self - contained package containing a group of HTML
files, with its own set of styles for formatting and a navigation document (or two) for
making sure everything gets displayed in the right order.
You now have properly embedded the necessary information in your
ePub file that
makes it possible for iOS devices to correctly display different fonts.
The hardest jump is the one from print to
ePub — you need to put plain text, often from multiple documents or text flows, and non-linear elements such as images, into a cleanly - tagged linear flow, and package it with a table of contents and instructions on how to tie together the various
files that
make up the book (see the
ePub Wikipedia page to learn more about the extra special sauce that's part of the
ePub format).
Amazon
makes it extra tough by forcing publishers to convert their
files separately to its brain - damaged Mobi
file format when the rest of the industry has now thoroughly settled on the single
EPUB standard.
This
makes the
files extremely tedious to troubleshoot and rework, so one of the first things I usually do if I know I'm going to be spending a considerable chunk of my day living in a particular
EPUB is to cut down that stylesheet to what's actually being used.
ePub is simply a
file standard that eReaders are
made to interpret.
This leaves out e-books created with InDesign, unless it is
made into an
ePub file by God's own miracle.
Here's the difference between PDF and a fixed - format
ePub (of which Amazon's fixed - format KF8 is a variant): by swapping out the style sheet, deleting one
file, and
making a couple of clearly defined changes to the HTML, I can have a reflowable ebook.
I would recommend that the person who will build the Kindle /
ePub files is the one who owns the Scrivener
file overall and
make sure your language settings are right.
Unfortunately, you can not directly create an
EPUB file from a Microsoft Word document, although there are Word add - ons that
make it possible; you can also try using Apple Pages, which exports
EPUB files.