This book is what I would use for my textbook teaching my six-credit Digital Publishing community college course for the Business Graphics degree I designed, taught, and led for 18 years. This is a major update for me. Many of the changes I've been waiting for with ePUB production have been implemented. InDesign now stands at the top of the heap for book production in general and ePUB production in particular. You do not need to know code, though understanding how HTML and CSS works will aid your conceptual understanding. The new fixed layout ePUBs will show gradient paragraph rules, gradient strokes and fills in tables, and much more–but justification does not work in FXL. The exported ePUBs upload flawlessly to the iBooks Store and Kobo Writing Life. The ePUB2 with embedded fonts uploads to Draft2Digital and Smashwords. Tables and lists are not there yet, but you can shade the background of a paragraph (in a style). These are very good ePUBs. Finally, the 21st century book publishing software we need is within our grasp. There's still more to come, but the present version is very good.
Author(s): David Bergsland
Publisher: Radiqx Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 538
Tags: Indesign CC, Book Publishing
Who’s this book for?......Page 9
The Self-Publishing Industry......Page 11
Welcome to my world......Page 13
The New Publisher......Page 17
Developing the copy......Page 25
Reality orientation......Page 41
What is on-demand publishing?......Page 49
What skills do you need?......Page 53
Writing
the copy......Page 55
Where do you start?......Page 57
Writing books fully formatted......Page 59
What skills do you need to self-publish digitally?......Page 65
What is typography?......Page 67
Graphics......Page 157
Using InDesign to produce graphics?......Page 159
Image production in InDesign......Page 161
Drawing in InDesign......Page 183
Combining paths......Page 203
Object styles......Page 245
Cover design......Page 249
A cover tutorial......Page 257
Layout: Formatting your book......Page 279
Page layout basics......Page 281
Formatting basics......Page 293
Examining the formatting options......Page 297
Dealing with
the basic paragraph styles......Page 319
A Set Of
Default Styles......Page 333
Let’s continue with tables......Page 347
Book print production......Page 357
Dealing with large & complex books......Page 369
The various ebook formats......Page 379
All of InDesign’s output is an ebook......Page 381
ePUB & Kindle design in InDesign......Page 383
Ebook Design......Page 391
The various suppliers......Page 445
Publish......Page 447
Practical Christian Marketing......Page 469
Why new authors & publishers need to read this......Page 471
A note about my faith......Page 475
What kind of writer are you?......Page 479
Building a social presence......Page 485
The Social Sites......Page 493
What sells your books online......Page 499
Pricing strategies......Page 515
Colophon:......Page 519
My online presence......Page 537
