Chapter 5: Creating Basic eBooks with InDesign

by Pariah Burke

Whether creating ebooks from TXT files or word processor documents or converting existing print publications to EPUB, the basics are all the same. You must learn to think in terms of EPUB, to reevaluate how your content is organized, and to know how to structure it using InDesign’s built-in tools in order to produce well organized, readable ebooks. The yellow brick road to becoming a wizard of ebook production starts with this chapter and proceeds through the next several chapters, creating progressively more interesting, more marketable ebooks and other EPUB-based publications.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following:
Creating an eBook from Scratch
Testing Your EPUB
Styling Your eBook
Converting a Print Publication to an eBook
Setting the Reading Order of Text, Images, and More

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2015

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.