eBooking [Illumination, Construction & Style]

by R. V. Windfield

Overview

Processes have evolved from block printing to stencil to moveable type. Then from flat-bed printing to the rotary printing press. Printers have used Intaglio, Lithography, Offset and Screen-printing as well as Flexography and Thermo printing. With computer printing, the Dot matrix printer was king for years until the introduction of the Inkjet printer. Shortly after the Dye-sublimation printer for printing CMYK became popular for desktop printing. And finally the Digital press came into being in 1993.

But it was not until the introduction of E-Ink in 1997 that the production and distribution of books exploded. The playing field has leveled to the point that almost everyone has a chance of expression in the literary arts and to distribute information worldwide. Enter the eBook.

However the free for all has had its caveats. Overwhelmingly there is a lack of understanding on how eBooks are made let alone how they are made for Kindle (Mobi) and how that process differs from eBooks for iPad or Nook (EPUB). Writers are unwillingly forced to write HTML code or trapped into thinking that all they are required to do is make a MS Word document, aggregate it into a EPUB file, then publish it.

In creating eBooks we found the ideas, perspectives, and methods to be as vast and perplexing as the Amazon jungle. Methods include templates, aggregators and creating system meta files from scratch. There are a gaggle of converters and a boatload of time and energy to be spent, but in general the system at large is a crapshoot. All booster and no payload. We have forums and Blogs that are also laced with confusion, opinion and speculation. All this is then fueled with frustration from those only wanting to write and get that writing into the public.

So writing a one size fits all format eBook is what this Book/eBook is all about. Using three applications and a template, its possible to create an eBook file that can be used for creating an eBook for Kindle, iPad, Nook and Sony eReaders.

The explanations in eBOOKING come across simple, logical and clear, and present a foundation for success as well as fun to use and experiment with.


Part 1 — Introduction
Chapter 1 — The Big Idea
Chapter 2 — How Simple is This?
Chapter 3 — To POD or Not to POD
Chapter 4 — Before the Beginning
Chapter 5 — Graphically Graphic
Chapter 6 — About the Template
Chapter 7 — Getting Started
Chapter 8 — Index.HTML
Chapter 9 — Chapter & Part.HTML
Chapter 10 — Putting It Together
Chapter 11 — EPUBcheck
Chapter 12 — Visual Verification
Chapter 13 — Publishing
Chapter 14 — The Push

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013206151
Publisher:	River3 Digital Press
Publication date:	08/10/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

R.V. Windfield was born in the Oakland East Bay area of California. His formative years were spent living in Berkeley and San Francisco. He later moved to Los Angeles and played music in the chinatown punk scene in the early 80s. He still enjoys making ambient music and has 3 CDs selling on iTunes and can be found on CDBaby.com under Robert Windfield. Windfield is a writer, musician, media director and student pilot. He has worked in Information Technologies, video production, direction and the graphic arts for 20 years. He lives in Spokane, Washington with his wife of thirty + years who is a writer and editor. R.V. Windfield can be contacted at & Facebook.com/rvwindfield