BISG WEBCAST -- Practical E-Book Formatting (05.11.10)

Practical E-Book Formatting:Limitations and Optimizations

This BISG WEBCAST took placeTuesday, May 11, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern

To register for future BISG Webcasts, please visit:http://www.bisg.org/event-cat-6-webcasts.php

Presented by:

Who you’ll be hearing from…

ANGELA BOLEDeputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group,

Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association

working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry

supply chain for both digital and physical products.

JOSHUA TALLENTeBook Architects

Joshua Tallent has been an e-book developer for 7 years, and is an expert on

formatting e-books in the variety of formats on the market, including

Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub. His book, Kindle Formatting: The Complete

Guide, has been praised as the most helpful and thorough explanation of the

detailed process involved in formatting great-looking e-books for the Amazon

Kindle. eBook Architects, his e-book conversion and consulting business,

provides services to the breadth of the publishing industry, from big

companies, to small publishers and individual authors.

Purpose of today’s Webcast…

To give an overview of

eBook formatting on the

most popular devices and

applications, and to give

tips on the creation of

beautiful

cross-platform eBooks.

eBookArchitects.com/resources.php

“Working to create a more

informed, empowered and efficient

book industry supply chain

for both physical and digital products.”

www.bisg.org

BISG’s Mission Statement

Introduction to eBookDevices and Formats

Joshua Tallent

Chief Architect

eBookArchitects.com/resources.php

Kindle/Mobipocket Format

Where files can be opened:

BeBook Bookeen Cybook Hanlin iRex

Blackberry Windows Mobile

Symbian Palm

• Kindle eBooks are formatted in HTML 3-ish, a little bit of CSS, and some proprietary code

• Formatting Kindle books in Word or other formats will cause problems

• There is a little bit of consistency due to restricted platforms, but watch out for non-device versions

• To build a Kindle eBook, use MobipocketCreator or KindleGen.

Kindle eBook Construction

• Keep it simple

• Develop a template

• Images: 520px wide by 610px high, <64kb

• Insert tables as images

• <blockquote> tags should have no <p> tags inside

Kindle Best Practices

ePub Format

Where files can be opened:

ePub Format

tinyurl.com/ePubDevices

• Zip file with a “*.epub” extension

• Internal files are XHTML, CSS, and some XML

• Can be read on a large number of devices

• Interoperability requires minimizing advanced formatting

ePub eBook Construction

• Get familiar with the format

• Build a template

• Stick to formatting that works on the broadest range of devices

• For devices you have control over (iPad/iPhone apps, Android apps) make things more interesting

ePub Best Practices

Formatting Samples

ebookarchitects.com/resources.php

Kindle of PC/Mac/Blackberry/etc.

Amazon Kindle

Adobe Digital Editions

Sony Reader

iBooks on the iPad

Aldiko on Android

General

Advanced

With Styles Without Styles

Design

MP4 video

Flash video

MP4 video&

Flash video

“I/O error reading toc.ncx”

Your NCX file has Unicode characters in it

Cryptic ePub Error #1

Cryptic ePub Error #2

In Stanza for the Desktop

Your OPF file is saved as a Unicode

file, not as ASCII

Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide

kindleformatting.com/book

Mobipocket Creator

tinyurl.com/mpcreator

KindleGen

tinyurl.com/kindlegen

Kindle for PC

www.amazon.com/KindleForPC

Kindle Resources

International Digital Publishing ForumIDPF.org

Adobe MAX session on InDesign to ePub:tinyurl.com/ePubMAX

Adobe Digital Editions:adobe.com/products/digitaleditions

Adobe Guide to ePub Best Practicestinyurl.com/ePubBest

ePub Resources

List of devices with Adobe SDKtinyurl.com/ePubDevices

EPUB Math: Best Practices for Mathematicstinyurl.com/ePubMath1

Sample ePub with Math Equations in SVGtinyurl.com/ePubMath2

Page Numbers in NCX (NOT OFFICIAL)tinyurl.com/ePubNCXPages

ePub Resources

Sigil (code.google.com/p/sigil)

eCub (juliansmart.com/ecub)

ePub Tools (code.google.com/p/epub-tools)

ePubCheck (code.google.com/p/epubcheck)

ePubCheck online (threepress.org/document/epub-validate)

calibre (calibre.kovidgoyal.net)

ePub Tools

Thank you!We’ll now take questions…

Angela Bole

angela@bisg.org

646-336-7141

www.bisg.org

Joshua Tallent

joshua@ebookarchitects.com

512-939-3466

www.ebookarchitects.com

www.kindleformatting.com

@jtallent

@ebookarchitects

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