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Week 7: Introducon to part 1- paula roush Epub for (and other eReaders) InDesign CS5.5: ePub workflow for eBooks

• What are eBooks? • Arsts’ ebooks, two examples • From inDesign into market • Is my photobook ready to be an ebook? • Essenal applicaons • From Blurb to Epub (an example) What are eBooks?

• eBooks are electronic, downloadable that can "easily" be accessed on a wide range of e-readers, like the iPad or iphone, and your home computer. • (technical definion) market

• or e-books is a growing market • it is predicted that this market by the end of 2015, will reach $2.8 billion • (economic argument…if you need one) Arsts’ ebooks, two examples

• Nieves zines for iphone/ – hp://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/app.

• Badlands Unlimited for iphone/ipad/kindler – hp://www.badlandsunlimited.com/ hp://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/app.html hp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nieves-zines/id370368075?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 hp://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/app_film.html hp://www.badlandsunlimited.com/ hp://www.badlandsunlimited.com/books.html Ebooks

• common file formats • 1- • 2- • 3-mobi EPUB

• eBook format • use the .epub extension • supported by most eReader devices (excepon: the Kindle that uses .mobi) From inDesign into Ebook market>

• >Epub (formaed for ipad) – Blurb market – if you use their trademark soware

– Do It Yourself (Indie ) – (your own site, via paypal)

• >Mobi (formaed for kindle) – Amazon market Blurb ebook tools: my advice is “avoid them!” if you have to reformat your for ipad, you might as well have total control over the InDesign document instead of using blurb proprietary soware Is my photobook ready to be an eBook?

• eBooks are different from their print counterparts, parcularly formang.

• eBook technology is sll evolving and each device and plaorm displays eBooks differently.

• KEEP FORMATTING SIMPLE. ISSUE 1-Page-Based Formang

• EPUBs are made up of reflowable text that adjusts based on the screen or device the reader is using. Unlike their print counterparts, eBooks do not use page-based formang. • Page numbers, page breaks, headers, and footers do not exist in eBooks ISSUE 2-Fonts

• Not all devices can display all fonts the same way. Sck with one of the standard fonts (Times New Roman, Arial, or Garamond) to ensure that your text is conveyed clearly across formats, devices and applicaons. • If you use another font, your eBook's text will automacally be converted to Times New Roman. Essenal applicaons

• Adobe digital edions • Sigil • • apps Adobe digital edions >>mac/pc To view epub content aer exporng epub from indesign; to see how images behave and text flows hp://www.adobe.com/products/digitaledions/ Sigil>>mac/pc To edit books in epub format To tweak the code and get fixed layouts, etc

hp://code.google.com/p/sigil/ Calibre>>mac/pc To convert epub into mobi (for kindle) hp://calibre-ebook.com/ Amazon kindle apps>>mac/iphone/pc/blackberry To preview mobi content for kindle

hp://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771 From Blurb to Epub (my experience)

• Blurb is just starng with Ebooks – There is only a way to sell your ebooks – If you design them with their soware • (Bookify or Booksmart) • You are limited to their Epub version of your book • Best opon: Do It Yourself – Use InDesign to reformat your blurb book • Use the ipad size as your average ereader intent • Resize your photographs • Export as Epub My book as designed for print: portrait format exploring the double spread landscape layout My book as designed for ipad: portrait format exploring the single spread portrait layout InDesign/File/New/Document

• CHANGES for ipad: – INTENT: WEB (instead of Print) – Unck ‘facing ’ – Page size: 768px X 1024px – Orientaon: Portrait – Margins: Top-84 Le-84 Boom-140 Right-84 • (these are just guides for a screen estate of 800x600 to account for perceptual changes in direcon of ereader and zoom in effect; you can sll do full bleed like I did)

Indesign document-single pages, ipad size Resizing in photoshop with crop tool set up to 768x1024 at 132 ppi Use crop tool to resize photos Aer: inDesign for ereader Before: inDesign for blurb/print Adding Metadata: File menu /File info I also created a table of contents (toc) for ereader navigaon. I used paragraph styles but you can do without it this me

Adding Your Cover

• Add a cover image for the bookshelf icon • Pick one of the photos from your book and resize it as in the previous step. • Name it cover.jpg, and save it to the images folder (as above) • During Epub export you’ll be asked to supply it my cover (no visible tle as per camouflage theme lol) photo resized to768x1024 at 132 ppi Exporng Epub: File menu / Export>Format:EPUB

Aer exporng I check it in Adobe Digital Edions

And in Sigil Transfer ebooks to iphone/ipad In iTunes File>Add to …

Opening the Photo Book on an iPad

• Locate the photo-book.epub file • Open iTunes • Drag and drop the photo-book.epub file on to iTunes. • In iTunes, you should now see your book in the “Books” area. • Connect your iPad and sync with iTunes. • On your iPad, open iBooks. • Open your book.