EPUB 3 Best Practices - SFBA Book Club

eBook, 372 pages

English language

Published January 2013 by O'Reilly.

ISBN:: 978-1-4493-2916-7
OCLC Number:: 834142606

(1 review)

Ready to take your ebooks to the next level with EPUB 3? This concise guide includes best practices and advice to help you navigate the format’s wide range of technologies and functionality. EPUB 3 is set to turn electronic publishing on its head with rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted interactivity, but this specification can be daunting to learn. This book provides you with a solid foundation.

Written by people involved in the development of this specification, EPUB 3 Best Practices includes chapters that cover unique aspects of the EPUB publishing process, such as technology, content creation, and distribution.

• Get a comprehensive survey of accessible production features • Learn new global language-support features, including right-to-left page progressions • Embed content with EPUB 3’s new multimedia elements • Make your content dynamic through scripting and interactive elements • Work with publication and distribution metadata • Create synchronized text and audio …

Ready to take your ebooks to the next level with EPUB 3? This concise guide includes best practices and advice to help you navigate the format’s wide range of technologies and functionality. EPUB 3 is set to turn electronic publishing on its head with rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted interactivity, but this specification can be daunting to learn. This book provides you with a solid foundation.

Written by people involved in the development of this specification, EPUB 3 Best Practices includes chapters that cover unique aspects of the EPUB publishing process, such as technology, content creation, and distribution.

• Get a comprehensive survey of accessible production features • Learn new global language-support features, including right-to-left page progressions • Embed content with EPUB 3’s new multimedia elements • Make your content dynamic through scripting and interactive elements • Work with publication and distribution metadata • Create synchronized text and audio playback in reading systems • Learn techniques for fixed and adaptive layouts

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Phil in SF reviewed EPUB 3 Best Practices by Matt Garrish

Solid

3 stars

Back in the late 00s and early 2010s a bunch of stuff got released as PDF or web pages that is no longer available at all. Stuff like Eclipse Online, a brief incarnation of the Eclipse anthologies that was published as Nightshade Books spiraled into near bankruptcy. I've had those stories saved in Calibre forever, but I hate reading fiction on my laptop or PDFs on ebook readers. Since Calibre has an ebook editor, I figured I would take a stab at converting them to EPUB so I can read them on my Kobo.

I used this text as a guide for what I needed to do for creating proper metadata (can't have books showing up on the Kobo without a title, for instance), formatting and navigation.

Anyway, I now have a bunch of stuff I can finally get off my mountainous TBR and read properly.