Ebook Foundations
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- Different types of ebooks
- Where can you get ebooks?
- Open and read ebooks
- Make an ebook
- Distribute and sell ebooks
- Choose the right format
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Pages
- Sigil, Calibre, and Jutoh
- Services that convert your file to EPUB
- How to get an ISBN number
- Kindle Store and iBooks Store accounts
- Resources and next steps
Taught by
Anne-Marie Concepción
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