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Ebook Foundations

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

EPUB Courses Digital Publishing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Get started in digital publishing. Learn the basics of ebook creation and discover how to choose the right format and tools for any project.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. What Is an Ebook, Exactly?
  • Different types of ebooks
  • Where can you get ebooks?
  • Open and read ebooks
  • Make an ebook
  • Distribute and sell ebooks
  • Choose the right format
2. Reflowable EPUBs
  • Common features of reflowable EPUBs
  • What's inside an EPUB?
  • EPUB 2 vs. EPUB 3
  • Make an EPUB on your own
  • Validate and edit the EPUB
3. Fixed-Layout EPUBs
  • What is a fixed-layout EPUB?
  • Reflowable vs. Fixed-layout EPUBs
  • What's inside a fixed-layout EPUB?
  • Make a fixed-layout EPUB
  • Add interactivity and animations
4. Ebooks for the Amazon Kindle
  • What makes a Kindle ebook different?
  • Creating a Kindle ebook from Microsoft Word
  • Convert an EPUB to a Kindle ebook
  • Create FXL ebooks for the Kindle
  • Distribute and sell your Kindle ebook
5. PDF Ebooks
  • Pros and cons of PDF ebooks
  • Create a PDF ebook from Microsoft Word
  • Create a PDF ebook from Adobe InDesign
  • Use Adobe Acrobat Pro to modify the ebook
  • Distribute and sell your PDF ebook
6. Ebooks with iBooks Author
  • What makes the iBooks format special?
  • Pros and cons of the iBooks format
  • Create an ebook with iBooks Author
  • Add interactivity to iBooks
  • Publish and distribute iBooks
7. Tools and Services
  • Pages
  • Sigil, Calibre, and Jutoh
  • Services that convert your file to EPUB
8. Business Matters
  • How to get an ISBN number
  • Kindle Store and iBooks Store accounts
Conclusion
  • Resources and next steps

Taught by

Anne-Marie Concepción

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