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Ready to take your ebooks to the next level with EPUB 3? This concise guide includes best practices and advice to help you navigate the format’s wide range of technologies and functionality. EPUB 3 is set to turn electronic publishing on its head with rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted...

Have you written a book?Want to sell at Amazon, Apple, Google and other major retailers?Would you like to save time and money along the way?Welcome to self-publishing made easy, an A-Z guide with dozens of tips to give your book advantages over millions of others. Written by Jason Matthews, self-publishing...

Do you have what it takes to become an author, but are not sure where to start? Promote Your Book gives enterprising authors the advantage they need to navigate the publishing industry and gain a better understanding of what book promotion is all about. This well-organized collection of the most successful...

You wrote a book. Very nice. But you didn't write to keep it for you. You should publish it. The problem is that the publishers charge high prices for some authors pockets, and do it objectively, due to the high cost of printing.    But you allowed that luxury, and now you have a printed...

You wrote a book. Very nice. But you didn't write to keep it for you. You should publish it. The problem is that the publishers charge high prices for some authors pockets, and do it objectively, due to the high cost of printing. But you allowed that luxury, and now you have a printed book,...

Publishing an e-book on Smashwords shouldn't be difficult but sometimes the website can be daunting and vetting messages can be confusing. Having fielded thousands of questions, complaints and comments, one of the Support staff created this slimmed-down version of the official Smashwords Style...

EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler) is the second of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, and PDF Machine when making "camera-ready" PDF files...

From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes,...

The e-book guide for publishers: how to publish, EPUB format, ebook readers and suppliers. An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, electronic book, digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable...

Learn the rules of today’s tech-driven publishing landscape! The Elements of Internet Style is the first guide to embrace the new reality of creating content in the electronic age. It is packed with the tools to reach and engage today’s too-busy, too-skeptical, too-distractible readers. Read this...

Designers or other creative professionals who create digital documents are always looking for ways to make their products more appealing to the user. One way of doing that is to increase reader engagement by building interactive animated effects into their designs. Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign...

CreateSpace is Amazon's print on demand company, the best place in the world to self publish paperback books. Learn to do it fast and easy. You'll save time and money.Microsoft Word documents (.doc and .docx) can easily be formatted for CreateSpace because it’s the world’s most popular...

Sooner or later, most authors come to the end of what they can do with Word or Scrivener. They begin to realize that their books do not look as good as traditional books published by established publishing companies. The idea that what they are missing is called typography usually comes...

Mobi Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler) is the first of the three user manuals for Mobi Machine (the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system). This book focuses on how to make Mobi files (eBooks) for the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Apps, showing you everything you need to know to get started....