Category: eBook Design & Production
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The Wild, Wild West of ePublishing
This course lays out for you all the formats, systems, channels, and devices you have for publishing content through electronic means. It shows you each option’s pros and its cons, discusses each option’s pricing and policies, and identifies which delivery channels reach which of your audience segments.
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Introduction to eBook Creation and Publishing (Lecture)
In this lecture-style presentation you will watch as the instructor starts with a typical manuscript from Microsoft Word or Apple Pages and from it produces a fully laid out, ready for sale ebook.
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eBook Creation and Publishing
In this hands-on course we’ll start with a typical manuscript and move start to finish through to putting it up for sale (or stopping just shy of putting it up for sale if you like) as a professionally produced, platform-optimized ebook.
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InDesign to ePUB: Converting Print Books to eBooks
This focused course is for those already working in print publishing and need to incorporate epublishing into the workflow. You will learn not only how to create new ePUB ebooks but also how to convert your existing print publications to ebook, all while using your actual publications and assets rather than some arbitrary “exercise files.”
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Advanced eBooks: Fixed Layout eBooks from QuarkXPress
You will learn the process and techniques of creating fully illustrated (full-page image) picture books and children’s books using industry standard desktop layout software Adobe InDesign. We’ll also use Photoshop to prepare images for publication. (Open this page for examples of fixed layout, fully illustrated picture and children’s books.)
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Advanced eBooks: Fixed Layout eBooks from InDesign
You will learn the process and techniques of creating fully illustrated (full-page image) picture books and children’s books using industry standard desktop layout software Adobe InDesign. We’ll also use Photoshop to prepare images for publication. (Open this page for examples of fixed layout, fully illustrated picture and children’s books.)
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InDesign
Adobe InDesign Training with world renowned InDesign guru Pariah Burke is an essential part of designing successful print and digital publications.
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Advanced eBook Design
The best, most stylish, most interesting ebooks (ePUB, Mobi, iBooks, Kindle, more) are not those that use the default formatting and styling exported by InDesign, QuarkXPress, Pages, Word, or another program. The ebooks that people respond to most use different fonts, colored text, dropcaps, headings and subheads, embedded video, improved typography, and other enhancements we’ll…