Making great ePubs is about attention to detail and not being the cheapest in town. There are two big voices in the ePub "noise-o-sphere" at the moment. Digitization outfits offering to do conversion cheaper and better, and trade book designers lamenting loosing typography and X-Y page layout. With these two themes dominating discussions, it is little wonder that the ePubs produced generally suck.
When you free yourself from both of these considerations, you can settle down and do some great e-content work. Digitization quality is a given requirement, e-books have much more going for them than page-like layout.
This post is about real information books not fiction and linear non-fiction which is somewhat pedestrian - compared to more information based content. This month alone we have processed e-books on the following subjects:
You have produced your ePub. Next the final step of the e-Pub and ebook publishing process is getting your books to the various retail sales channels. Depending on the genres of your books this can be more or less complex.
IGP:Distribution Manager addresses this problem directly making it easy for Publishers of all sizes to distribution multiple books to multiple aggregator, retailer and search channels.
Publishers
publish works for authors in a number of expressions. Traditionally
these were only print books. These were sent to a distribution agent for
physical shipping to main street bookstores, or to a customer via
courier after an online transaction.
Now there are multiple
e-book formats that need to be delivered to multiple organizations who
are in the business of selling digital formats for use in an increasing range of
digital devices. This situation is probably going to become a lot
messier before, and if it settles down.
