Week 7: Introduc/on to eBooks part 1-‐ paula roush Epub for ipads (and other eReaders) InDesign CS5.5: ePub workflow for eBooks
• What are eBooks? • Ar/sts’ ebooks, two examples • From inDesign into ebook market • Is my photobook ready to be an ebook? • Essen/al applica/ons • From Blurb to Epub (an example)
What are eBooks?
• eBooks are electronic, downloadable books that can "easily" be accessed on a wide range of e-‐readers, like the iPad or iphone, and your home computer.
• (technical defini/on)
market
• ePUBs or e-‐books is a growing market • it is predicted that this market by the end of 2015, will reach $2.8 billion
• (economic argument…if you need one)
Ar/sts’ ebooks, two examples
• Nieves zines for iphone/ipad – h\p://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/app.html
• Badlands Unlimited for iphone/ipad/kindler – h\p://www.badlandsunlimited.com/
EPUB
• eBook format • use the .epub extension • supported by most eReader devices (excep/on: the Amazon Kindle that uses .mobi)
From inDesign into Ebook market>
• >Epub (forma\ed for ipad) – Blurb market
– if you use their trademark sofware
– Do It Yourself (Indie publishing) – (your own site, via paypal)
• >Mobi (forma\ed for kindle) – Amazon market
Blurb ebook tools: my advice is “avoid them!” if you have to reformat your book for ipad, you might as well have total control over the InDesign document instead of using blurb proprietary sofware
Is my photobook ready to be an eBook?
• eBooks are different from their print counterparts, par/cularly formamng.
• eBook technology is s/ll evolving and each device and planorm displays eBooks differently.
• KEEP FORMATTING SIMPLE.
ISSUE 1-‐Page-‐Based Formamng
• EPUBs are made up of reflowable text that adjusts based on the screen or device the reader is using. Unlike their print counterparts, eBooks do not use page-‐based formamng.
• Page numbers, page breaks, headers, and footers do not exist in eBooks
ISSUE 2-‐Fonts
• Not all devices can display all fonts the same way. S/ck with one of the standard fonts (Times New Roman, Arial, or Garamond) to ensure that your text is conveyed clearly across formats, devices and applica/ons.
• If you use another font, your eBook's text will automa/cally be converted to Times New Roman.
Adobe digital edi/ons >>mac/pc To view epub content afer expor/ng epub from indesign; to see how images behave and text flows
h\p://www.adobe.com/products/digitaledi/ons/
Sigil>>mac/pc To edit books in epub format To tweak the code and get fixed layouts, etc
h\p://code.google.com/p/sigil/
Amazon kindle apps>>mac/iphone/pc/blackberry To preview mobi content for kindle
h\p://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771
From Blurb to Epub (my experience)
• Blurb is just star/ng with Ebooks – There is only a way to sell your ebooks – If you design them with their sofware
• (Bookify or Booksmart) • You are limited to their Epub version of your book
• Best op/on: Do It Yourself – Use InDesign to reformat your blurb book
• Use the ipad size as your average ereader intent • Resize your photographs • Export as Epub
InDesign/File/New/Document
• CHANGES for ipad: – INTENT: WEB (instead of Print) – Un/ck ‘facing pages’ – Page size: 768px X 1024px – Orienta/on: Portrait – Margins: Top-‐84 Lef-‐84 Bo\om-‐140 Right-‐84 • (these are just guides for a screen estate of 800x600 to account for perceptual changes in direc/on of ereader and zoom in effect; you can s/ll do full bleed like I did)
I also created a table of contents (toc) for ereader naviga/on. I used paragraph styles but you can do without it this /me
Adding Your Cover
• Add a cover image for the bookshelf icon • Pick one of the photos from your book and resize it as in the previous step.
• Name it cover.jpg, and save it to the images folder (as above)
• During Epub export you’ll be asked to supply it
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