eBooks
Chris Jennings
Design and Production Techniques Where Both Print Book and eBook Are Required
The eBook uses the example of a Shakespeare Play with introductory text and images as well as some sample multimedia. The sample eBook is built 3 ways; as a Reflowable ePUB, a Fixed-Layout ePUB and a multi-touch eBook using iBooks Author.
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Note: I recently had to change the title and subtitle to conform to title case rules with Apple. Title case rules should conform to those recommended in 'The Chicago Manual of Style'
Posted on 03 Mar 2016 around 8am •
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Chris Jennings
Fixed layout eBooks in ePUB3 are currently supported best with on the iPad. Yes, there are other ways of viewing, but the iPad seems to provide the best user experience.
Many publishers use InDesign somewhere in the process of creating print books.
How can we make use of InDesign to build fixed-layout eBooks?
The step-by-step guide will show how to use InDesign, to begin the process of building fixed-layout eBook. You will also need to be able to edit the CSS and other files inside the ePUB package.
[Edit] Please note that InDesign CC 2014 does now include a means to export to Fixed-Layout ePub, although the markup produced is very complex and is very difficult to edit.
Posted on 10 Apr 2013 around 3pm •
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Chris Jennings
Designers who work within publishing companies are often frustrated with the results when their beautifully crafted print books are converted to eBooks. Particularly if they are flowable eBooks, that can have their viewing modes and fonts changed by the user.
This eBook focuses on revealing some features that can be implemented in flowable eBooks, in order to improve the aesthetic qualities of the juxtaposition of text and image on the page.
Posted on 17 Mar 2013 around 10am •
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Chris Jennings
Cover image. This photograph is of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Mainland
At last, after 30 years, my book of photographs of Standing Stones and Stone Circles around the British Isles is now available as a fixed-format eBook and is on the Apple iBookstore.
Apple took several weeks to review the book, but I am pleased to say that it is currently on 50 stores worldwide!
Posted on 23 Jan 2013 around 8am •
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Robert Louis Stevenson
When I read this short essay by Robert Louis Stevenson, I recognised a man who loved islands, since there are references to different islands that he had either explored or invented.
I have created a few versions of this wonderful essay from RLS, partly from an interest in islands, but also because there are many opportunities to make cross references to other material from RLS himself. I have also travelled to the island described and I have included some photographs within the book.
Back in 2001, I created a Quicktime VR movie and had included this in a PDF version of this eBook. Including this in the ePub version seems impossible for the moment. Even putting a link to the QTVR online is a bit risky because recent versions of Quicktime from Apple no longer supports this format.
Posted on 11 Dec 2012 around 9am •
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson completed ‘The Merry Men’ when he lived in Bournemouth, England between 1884 and 1887. It was first published in 1887 with other short stories as ‘The Merry Men and Other Tales’.
First published in the IDLER, August 1894 and then later in a collection of essays titled ‘The Art of Writing’.
He started the first draft of “The Merry Men’ when he stayed in Scotland during the summer of 1881 and in his essay about the writing of ‘Treasure Island’ he mentions this fact.
The story takes place on the fictional Eilean Aros which Stevenson based on Eilean Earraid, a small islet near to the Ross of Mull and Iona. ‘The Merry Men’ are, in fact, the dangerous reefs known as the Torran Rocks.
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Posted on 13 Dec 2011 around 10am •
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New and updated for InDesign CS6
InDesign CS6 has some significant improvements for making ePUBs. Hopefully this little book will explain the basics.
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Note: You will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader
Posted on 08 Sep 2011 around 11am •
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Herman Melville
This essay was first published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854. It was collected in The Piazza Tales, Dix & Edwards in 1856.
The Encantadas are actually the Galapagos Islands. There are ten sections that Melville calls 'Sketches'. Some of them refer to individual islands in the group and some sketches cover some general points, such as pirates and castaways.
Each sketch is prefixed with a quotation from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene which was published in 1590.
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Posted on 20 Mar 2011 around 12pm •
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D. H. Lawrence
This story was written in 1926 but then not published until 1928, after the author's death. The story was published as one of a collection of short stories; The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, Knopf, New York.
This ebook is delivered to you in the ePub format. The epub is optimised for the iPad, but will work equally well on a number of ereaders.
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Posted on 31 Aug 2010 around 6pm •
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