Creating E-Books
As reading and tablet devices such as the Kindle and iPad, become ubiquitous, e-book development has to be a significant part of publishers’ product offering and workflow.
What are the steps required to introduce e-book production into the publishing workflow? What are the different platforms and formats that need to be targeted? What tools are available to help editors and designers build on their existing skills?
Over the two days, you will learn about the different platforms and how appropriate they are for different kinds of content.
You will learn:
- how to create an e-book for devices that support the EPUB standard
- how to convert for the Amazon Kindle
You will gain hands-on experience on either an Apple Mac or PC, which is pre-loaded with all the latest software, including Adobe CS 5.5.
Programme
Day One – Formats and Tools
- Reading on screen - zooming or flowing?
- Devices and platforms
- Apple iPad
- Sony
- Kindle
- Nook
- Other tablets
- Readers for PCs
- Products
- Books as apps
- E-magazines
- E-books with enhancements
- E-book formats
- EPUB
- Mobi Kindle
- Markup
- HTML basics
- CSS (Stylesheets) basics
- Tools for building e-books – an overview
- Free and open source tools
- Conversion
- Page layout tools
- First look at InDesign
- Preparation for day 2 - gathering some sources
- Sample public domain text
- Images for cover and illustration
Day Two – Creative workflow
- Building e-books
- Content structure
- Preparing the text
- Analysis of the content
- Gathering assets
- Introducing InDesign
- Starting a file
- Styles and structure
- Paragraph and character styles
- Table of contents
- External sources
- Metadata
- Cover image and illustrations
- Captions
- Placing resources
- Workflow
- InDesign
- EPUB
- Validation check
- Edit with OxygenXML editor
- Validation complete
- Concluding session
- EPUB3
- HTML5
- Fixed layout e-books for Apple iPad
- iPad apps and e-zines, and tools for making them
- Prototyping
- Multimedia
Who will benefit from this course?
Publishing staff who seek to be actively involved in the creation e-books for mobile reading devices. Editors who seek to understand the processes involved in the creation of e-books, so as to be able to plan workflows more effectively. Authors who wish to become closely involved in techniques for self-publishing for portable, screen based reading devices.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 11 June 2012, 19 July 2012, 10 September 2012, 23 October 2012
- Duration: A two-day course
- Price: £755+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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