Contents

• The author
• Note
• Introduction
• An overview of digital publishing
  • What is an ebook?
  • Ebook formats
    • Standardisation
    • Major formats
    • PDF
    • EPUB
    • Mobi
  • Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• An intro to HTML and CSS code
  • Content, form and function
  • What are XML and XHTML?
• Converting books to ebooks
  • First-step: decisions
  • Creating a PDF ebook
  • Converting to EPUB using Calibre
  • Creating EPUB from InDesign
    • Working in InDesign
    • After exporting to EPUB
• Practical typesetting for print and digital
  • Text flow
  • Images
  • Fonts
    • InDesign CS3 quirks
  • Styles
  • Local formatting
  • Pagination and master pages
  • Spacing
  • Text alignment
  • Background colours
  • Tables of contents
  • Covers
  • Metadata
  • Embedding multimedia
  • Getting inside the EPUB
  • Checking ebooks
• Further reading
• Feedback