Category: Books

Create, Deploy, and Manage Digital Publications of All Kinds

For pub­lish­ers, design­ers, authors, and self-publishers.

This book walks you through the entire process of build­ing a pro­fes­sion­al, for-profit dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing work­flow: plan­ning, adding mul­ti­me­dia and inter­ac­tiv­i­ty, and pub­lish­ing using InDesign. In no time, you’ll be cre­at­ing ebooks, media-rich ebooks, emagazines, ecat­a­logs, tablet dig­i­tal mag­a­zines, and more! For use with Adobe InDesign CS6 or CC (any version.)

The Business of ePublishing 2015 explains in thor­ough detail what pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ers, design­ers, and tra­di­tion­al, inde­pen­dent, and hybrid authors need to know about the world and busi­ness of dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing today and tomor­row. It goes beyond the rhetoric and para­noid procla­ma­tions ram­pant in social media, blogs, and news out­lets to pro­vide prov­able, unbi­ased insight into the users, devices, for­mats, and real world eco­nom­ics of ebooks, fixed-layout ebooks, dig­i­tal text­books, dig­i­tal mag­a­zines, and more for all lev­els of publishing—enterprise, small- to medium-sized pub­lish­ing, indy, and self publishing.

Often referred to as “chil­dren’s ebooks,” “pic­ture ebooks,” “pho­to books,” and sim­i­lar monikers, fixed-layout ebooks are visually-rich lay­outs that offer much more than stan­dard EPUB and KF8 for­mat ebooks for …

This book walks you through the entire process of build­ing a pro­fes­sion­al, for-profit dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing work­flow: plan­ning, adding mul­ti­me­dia and inter­ac­tiv­i­ty, and pub­lish­ing using InDesign. In no time, you’ll be cre­at­ing ebooks, media-rich ebooks, emagazines, ecat­a­logs, tablet dig­i­tal mag­a­zines, and more!

“Pariah Burke’s expla­na­tions of the points he is mak­ing is very clear and under­stand­able. I would rec­om­mend it to any­one that wants to mas­ter InDesign for an effi­cient work­flow. This is def­i­nite­ly a book that will stay on my shelf as a ref­er­ence after I’m done read­ing it.” —J. Hinds

The InDesignSecrets Guide to What’s New in InDesign CS5 is your secret weapon in dis­cov­er­ing how to use and best apply CS5’s new fea­tures to the projects you’re work­ing on today.

“One gets the sense that the author has real­ly spent time in the trench­es using these tools under dead­line, so he does­n’t waste your time. It also has humor and a nice per­son­al writ­ing style that makes it bear­able to actu­al­ly read.” –C. Harder

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is a project-based guide that will help you com­plete work­place projects while you learn how to use Illustrator CS2.