It is an opportunity to rub shoulders with Adobe - certified trainers, master uses, the Lynda.com group of presenters, Adobe engineers and product managers, and
other eBook production folks just like you (wherever you may be in experience).
I haven't tested the new devices yet, but I'll let you know what
other eBook production people who have say.
Not exact matches
Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of
ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower
production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.
Some focus exclusively on
ebook production while
others can handle apps as well.
Indeed, I have heard good things about Draft2Digital and I think a comparison to
other ebook and print book
production and distribution companies is a good topic for a future post.
Amazon's CreateSpace holds the top position for print
production of self - published titles, with 39 % of the industry in 2011, while Smashwords produced more self - published
ebooks than any
other platform with 47 % of the market.
These changes, both in the virtual world such as an
eBook library, and now in the physical world with a wider and wider assortment of home CAD and CAM with more and more flexibility in terms of materials and the size of the objects manufactured, signal a huge change that the world is barely able to conceive in its mind but which is happening in an ever widening set of circles as exemplified by MIT's FABLABs, and
other more commercial examples of similar products, and product
production arrays.
The yellow brick road to becoming a wizard of
ebook production starts with this chapter and proceeds through the next several chapters, creating progressively more interesting, more marketable
ebooks and
other EPUB - based publications.
Generally speaking,
eBook production budgets can be lower than a typical print budget, but you'll need to plan for a budget upfront as you would with print or any
other product for that matter.
Now in its third year, the two - day conference for the
ebook production community will also include an optional workshop day on March 30 covering digital typography, accessibility, and quality assurance, with a main conference day on March 31 featuring sessions on storyboarding, interactivity, and CSS3 animation, among
other topics.
On the
other hand, Amazon's $ 9.99 price point can not support quality
ebook production, which is what happens when no one makes money.
Do you think that
ebook production experts like yourself will build brands to distinguish their books from
other ebooks?
The proposal was to get together a «starter» list of, say, 800-1000 quality commercial New Zealand titles, to create them in a simple and inexpensive way through bulk - buying of
ebook production services (particularly for indie publishers, the major publishers already have a lot of
ebook inventory), and to market them as a package to early market makers such as e-reader device manufacturers,
ebook retailers, libraries, and
others.
This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (
production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the form of
ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many
other forms of content from music to games available to those consumers).
But if you also need to create
eBook files that can be disseminated through distribution channels and read offline, and / or your apps with that same content then using EPUB for all three distribution channels may be be a compelling way to modularize your
production and delivery work streams and reduce your overall costs, even if your articles and
other content nuggets are originally stored in a CMS system or Wiki.
From a business perspective, I've been able to gather up enough donations and
other funds to pay for most of the
production costs for the
ebook version (editing, cover, etc.).
Geuppert says that in Germany — in offering print and POD (print on demand) as well as
ebook production — epubli, neobooks, and
other platforms offer physical retail presence for self - published books, as IngramSpark does.
And, if you are a Harry Potter fan, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — Parts I & II (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End
Production is available for pre-order at Amazon and
other ebook retailers.
For
production,
ebooks demand the same as print books in terms of writing, editing, and proofing, but nowhere near the same in terms of
other things that go into making an attractive printed book.
Below are some resources that we think will help
others in the
eBook production community.