InDesign > ePUB > Kindle/MOBI

Of course there would be other ways, but this is my workflow using:

• InDesign CS5.5 > export to ePUB
• View with Adobe Digital Editions and ePub reader for Firefox
• Edit with BBedit on the MAC
• Transfer to the iPad
• Convert with KindleGen to MOBI
• View in Kindle Previewer

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Filed Under: InDesign • Making Ebooks • Publishing

Duration: 00:11:09

Creating eBooks at the London Book Fair

I gave this presentation at the London Book Fair on Tuesday 17th April 2012.

This talk was given as one of the seminars organised by the Publishing Training Centre, where I run the Creating eBooks 2-day course.

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Filed Under: Making Ebooks • Publishing

Duration: 00:55:46

Building an eBook in ePub format from InDesign

Please NOTE: I no longer recommend the use of PDFXML Inspector from Adobe and this presentation covers the use of InDesign version CS5 not CS5.5 which has significant improvements in regard to ePUB export..

You may also want to watch the instructional screencast on the same subject.

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Filed Under: InDesign • Making Ebooks

Duration: 00:20:03

Horizontal Menus with CSS

Creating tab style menus horizontally across the page. Just showing the basics. First of all, some examples and then we dig into the HTML and CSS.

Errata: When I say menus on the right, I actually mean left!

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Filed Under: CSS and HTML • Web Media

Duration: 00:20:48

From InDesign (CS5) to XML

I have done something similar before but here is a fresh look at building a simple InDesign document, adding some paragraph and character styles and tags - and then building a relationship between them.

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Filed Under: InDesign • Publishing • XML

Duration: 00:20:40

Interactive Contents for eBook

This session covers:

• Using styled content, such as headings and subheadings to create contents page
• making the contents list with page numbers
• separating the headings and page numbers with dots
• exporting to PDF and showing how the contents become navigation links
• showing how this also creates bookmarks 

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Filed Under: Making Ebooks

Duration: 00:09:32

Basic Stuff you should Know about HTML and CSS

We look at what goes into a basic HTML document and how to apply styles with CSS. An important point is made about the use of standard HTML markup to get proper document structure.

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Filed Under: CSS and HTML • Web Media

Duration: 00:07:25

Text Processing (removing unwanted paragraph breaks)

If we source a public domain text on the web, such as those from the Gutenberg project, we may well find that each line of thext has a fixed length. This is because the text was probably scanned in and then converted to real text through OCR software. The text is laid out exactly as it was in the original source. This facsimile is not appropriate for our needs.

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Filed Under: Making Ebooks

Duration: 00:06:55