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still kind of a stealthy love ninja ([personal profile] zvi) wrote in [community profile] ebooks2012-06-02 10:53 am

So You Want to Make An Ebook

Last year, Steven Saus, who is a digital first publisher and has done the e-book conversions for Jim Hines, among others, wrote a book about writing ebooks, which he published first on his blog and is now selling for $9.99.

The version on his blog is not really collated, it's under his ebooks tag, which includes a lot of other entries about the business of ebooks. So, I am collating here, in approximate order, his So You Want to Make an Ebook entries to date. (Since the original publication, he's added some entries for version 2.)

  1. Introduction
  2. Why Make an eBook
  3. The Philosophy of eBooks
  4. PDF versus eBooks
  5. Brainware
  6. Software
  7. Converting The Text
  8. Using SED
  9. Creating the CSS Stylesheet
  10. Using CSS instead of HTML
  11. Inserting Images
  12. Chapter Decisions
  13. The Other Files
  14. Checking Your Work

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