eBook Design & Development by A Akinyele & J O’Bergh

Save money and design, develop, and complete your own eBook manuscript from start to finish-the right way.

A step-by-step guide to understanding and creating an eBook manuscript and EPUB file, eBook Design & Development: The Right Way from Start to Finishcontains all the information needed to design, develop, and complete an eBook manuscript using Microsoft Word. The book provides a linear approach to understanding and creating eBooks.

Most resources fail to address all the information needed to complete an eBook from start to finish, leaving readers with questions and contradictory information. Questions still needed answering, for instance, including: How do you create an EPUB from a Microsoft Word manuscript? What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a PDF vs. DOC(X) when converting to an eBook? Without using a service, how does one setup an eBook manuscript in Microsoft Word properly (i.e., proper format settings such as margins, font and paragraph styles, appropriate font sizes, the dos and don'ts, etc.)?

Answers to these questions and more are provided in this book for creating an eBook manuscript and EPUB file. After in-depth research and compiling all the necessary information, this "how to" book will explain in detail everything needed to design and develop your own professional and engaging eBook manuscript and EPUB file for submitting to online publishers.

Easy to navigate. No HTML or CSS prior experience or knowledge needed. Provides educational value sourced from leading eBook manuscript conversion publishing companies. Provides graphics to help understand the content and eBook/EPUB process. This "How to" book is for anyone, especially authors, who want useful information in one place in learning how to design, develop, and complete an eBook the right way. Get this book and save money by designing and developing your own professional eBook manuscript and well-formatted EPUB file the right way from start to finish.

Key aspects you will learn from the book:

• eBook recommendations and limitations.
• How to apply quality assurance and accessibility guidelines for eBooks.
• How to avoid EPUB file rejections, a must read.
• How to check your final EPUB file for errors before submitting to online publishers and retailers.
• How to create a "classic" and linkable table of contents.
• How to create a final, well-formatted, submission-ready EPUB file to eBook publishing platforms.
• How to create font and paragraph styles.
• How to fix common EPUB errors and warnings.
• How to set up and write an eBook manuscript (step-by-step) using Microsoft Word.
• How to test eBooks using publishing industry standards checklists.
• How to use publishing tools for eBook previewing and testing, including Calibre, Draft2Digital, and Kindle Previewer.
• How to validate an EPUB file using online EPUB validators.