iPad eBook format overview of the .epub file
Use .epub to create eBooks and load them on iPad. See the internal structure how the pieces fit. The .epub format is free/open. It allows reflowable and resizable text, CSS decorations, .jpegs, .gif, .png but no moving images or sound. More resources: Build an ePub Tutorial – katiebooks.ca PC tool – ebook-publisher.software.informer.com “ePub” on MobileRead Wiki – wiki.mobileread.com Firefox Add-on – www.epubread.com PDFxml Inspector – http Specs – www.idpf.org ePub Check – code.google.com DIY – www.jedisaber.com Construction guide: www.hxa.name
In this Apple Nugget from NTI Birmingham (www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/nti), Apple-certified trainer Ben Stanley shows you how to create an ePub ebook for use on the iPad and iPod’s iBooks app using iWork’s Pages software. After something a bit meatier? Head to www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/nti to check out NTI Birmingham’s great range of Apple accredited short training courses. Find more videos at www.applenuggets.com.
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@SuperGuestaccount I am using a book by Elizabeth Castro called “EPUB Straight to the Point” to format my InDesign files for export to EPUB but the book also teaches how to add to and change the code in the zipped files described in this video – because what InDesign ships out looks like crap. The book teaches enough css and xhtml to get you through creating a nice layout. From what I’ve read everywhere it’s the only way to do it, and so far I am happy with this book. Marguerita
This helps in understanding technology behind an ePub, but from a Graphic Artists standpoint, I’d love to see how to create a good ePub in InDesign complete with graphics that look good. I’m not a programmer and need to see the transition from this type of lesson to actually making an ePub.
Great video, even for a non-html kinda guy. I am working on an iBook and am curious about the rights management. Do you know if InDesign automatically inserts the “rights.xml” line in the code? and does one have to include a file underneath the rights line to describe the rights management?
Thank you. Love to find content like this on youtube.
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Professor in which field?
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Great presentation. It was interesting learning how the ebooks used in ipads are put together. How can one open the .epub file to view the different parts that you showed in this video?
It’s seems interesting how the iPad has opened up a whole slew of websites offering unlimited ebook downloads for a small fee. Sites like iPadBookSmart seem to have a nitch market on this kind of stuff. Love the video!
Very good illustration and elaboration on ePUB format.
I am a firmware engineer, and would love to convert my .pdf into .epub software. I am a quick learner. Is there any Software available that is opensource and can do an easy conversion job. Also any company who makes this conversion tools, If not very expensive I will buy that software. Also I scan my URDU language books through my scanner and the .pdf output comes very large for good results. Can I use any OCR software to scan the books and generate the .pdf or .ePub files
This was an awesome tutorial. The format with the bubbles truly helps grasping the (or any) concept.
@davidtheharper You can do this in InDesign. InDesign exports to EPUB format.
Thank you for the video and all the resource links!!!
@davidtheharper Much of the anatomy is doable in any web editor. The tricky part comes in compressing the pieces. I found it very awkward to build a book and then compress/decompress/recompress for each edit in order to proof the book and refine it. It see a new crop of editors coming out on the heels of the iPad.
Fabulous, thank-you! Just what’s needed, I tried to read up on this a dozen times before, this was the first time I understood it & felt I could use what I understood! (I’m a professor myself, but I wish I could have been one of your students!) … But surely this should mean that it would be a breeze to produce what’s needed in Dreamweaver, shouldn’t it? Can you give us a tutorial on how to do it? And why on earth isn’t it built into Dreamweaver?! Maybe because Adobe wants to sell InDesign…
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Excellent high/mid-level overview of the format! Definitely answered some questions for me (and raised a few news ones
@abawi192072 Yes – See OPS, Section2.2.1: “OPS requires all conforming Reading Systems to support the following modules consistent with their descriptions in the XHTML and HTML specifications, unless otherwise specified in this document…. caption, col, colgroup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr”
this is quite possibly one of the best most informative videos ive ever seen on youtube, so clear, so well presented! good work!
This is extremely informative, thank you so much, sir.
does it support to format tables ???
@freefullvideos All you really need is a text editor and a program to make zip files. If you can make websites, you could make an epub ebook. As the video says, it’s just xhtml and css, with a few other parts to give it structure and metadata.