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- Herausgeber: HTMPublishing
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
A guide for designing eBooks to be published for viewing on eReaders such as Kindle, Kobo, and Nook.
Multiple examples for design element catagories are presented.
Additionally a list of best practices and cautions are listed along with recommended resources.
"...an excellent do-it-yourself course.
It is concise yet detailed with a lot of nifty style suggestions.
... this short book reduced what I had imagined to be a steep
and daunting learning curve to get may book looking great!" - Robert Dale Collins
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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Preface
Reception of the first edition of this book generated a suggestion to expand its scope. This second edition adds additional details on production methods.
Suggestions for further improvements are welcomed by the author who can be reached at [email protected]
Overview
Why ePub? Retailers of eBooks require submissions for publication in ePub format. It became an official standard in 2007. Its specifications of are maintained by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), www.w3.org. Files created in this format are assigned the extension .epub e.g. My_eBook.epub. The .epub file bundles image, text, and style files together. Text files are composed with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and style files with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). The contents of an .epub file can be inspected by renaming the file from .epub to .zip and extracting the contents.
In 2007 Amazon released Kindle, an eBook reader with an e-paper display. E-paper displays are more efficient in power usage than other display types. The newest Kindle Paperwhite eReader features up to 10 weeks of battery life.
Do-it-yourself authors who intend to self-publish to eBook retailers will find in this book a step-by-step guide from plan through production to publication.
Samples of eBook design elements are shown here with regard to how they display in black and white eBook reader screens such as Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook, and those offered by Kobo, Tolino, Vivlio and others.
Beyond color limitation there are HTML elements and CSS rules that do not display. Examples of elements that do display are presented. Those that do not are listed. Knowledge of HTML and is needed to implement these examples. Book designers who do not have experience with those two languages should be advised that these examples use small subsets of the vocabularies of both and therefore little time is required to acquire these skills. Recommendable tutorials are at W3Schools.com.
Amazon's Kindle Previewer desktop app and a Kindle Paperwhite eReader were used to proof the content presented here.
Design Samples
Alignment
Indentation
Margin and Padding
Captions for Images
Font Style, Weight & Variant
Horizontal Rule
Notes
Quotes
Tables
Position
Positioning text with reference to the screen margins can be specified using the text-align property. Examples:
default is text left — no rule needed
text centered,
/*CSS property:value pair*/ text-align:center
text aligned right.
/*CSS property:value pair*/ text-align:right
The default indentation for a paragraph's first line is the width of an "M." This can be changed using the text-indent property:
Example: this first line is indented by 3em. The following lines are flush to the left.
/*CSS property:value pair*/ text-indent:3em
Set the margins of an element: top margin is the distance to the element above, right margin is the distance to the element to the right e.g. screen's right side, bottom margin is the distance to the element below, left margin is the distance to the element to the left e.g. screen's left side.
margin: 3em 3em 3em 3em
/*CSS property:values - top right bottom left set at once*/ margin: 3em 3em 3em 3em
Margins can be set individually using margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-left.
This example has a 3em wide margin from the screen's left side.
/*CSS property:value pair*/ margin-left: 3em
Set the padding of an element
An example of 5em padding on the left.
