BISG WEBCAST -- Practical E-Book Formatting (05.11.10)
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Practical E-Book Formatting: Limitations and Optimizations This BISG WEBCAST took place Tuesday, 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:
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The e-book market is booming and the number of devices that can read e-books is growing fast. This Book Industry Study Group (BISG) Webcast addressed what formatting works and what doesn't on different platforms, with specific suggestions for making your e-books look great no matter where your consumers read them.
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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:
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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.
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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.”
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BISG’s Mission Statement
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Introduction to eBookDevices and Formats
Joshua Tallent
Chief Architect
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Kindle/Mobipocket Format
Where files can be opened:
BeBook Bookeen Cybook Hanlin iRex
Blackberry Windows Mobile
Symbian Palm
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• 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
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• 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
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ePub Format
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ePub Format
tinyurl.com/ePubDevices
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• 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
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• 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
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Formatting Samples
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Kindle of PC/Mac/Blackberry/etc.
Amazon Kindle
Adobe Digital Editions
Sony Reader
iBooks on the iPad
Aldiko on Android
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General
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With Styles Without Styles
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“I/O error reading toc.ncx”
Your NCX file has Unicode characters in it
Cryptic ePub Error #1
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Cryptic ePub Error #2
In Stanza for the Desktop
Your OPF file is saved as a Unicode
file, not as ASCII
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Q & A
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Thank you!We’ll now take questions…
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646-336-7141
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Joshua Tallent
512-939-3466
www.ebookarchitects.com
www.kindleformatting.com
@jtallent
@ebookarchitects
