ePub Straight to the Point: Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and Other ereaders

Start building ePub books NOW with this guide from bestselling HTML author Elizabeth Castro. Author Elizabeth Castro has sold more than three quarters of a million books on HTML. With more than 250,000 ebooks downloaded on the iPads iBookstore during its first day of sale, and with 1.43 million e-readers sold in Q1 of 2010, the flood gates are open for electronic books. This book is project based and walks readers through how to create an ebook using the ePub specification. This project-based book will walk the reader through the creation of an ebook using the ePub specification. Liz Castro will cover the principle characteristics of an ePub ebook, how to design the layout, and what the specification can and cant handle. Liz will show readers how to build an ePub book both through coding a book by hand and with Adobe InDesign. She will show readers how to test their files and get it ready for publishing. Liz will also look at advanced topics, including DRM and multimedia.