I have been doing a lot of study about how best to use Adobe InDesign to create ePub books with the least fuss and the best results.
Here are two great resources that start with the basics and work forward from there. If you work with InDesign and want to create ePub versions of the books you design (or have clients who will want to do so), I urge you to spend some time with these great tutorials.
FIRST…
In the October/November issue of InDesign Magazine, Gabriel Powell has a two-part series of articles — “The eBook Revolution Is Here!” (how to create ePub files using InDesign) and “Editing E-Books.” (If you work with InDesign and don’t subscribe…why not? I consistently learn new and better techniques and great design ideas in every issue.)
SECOND…
Gabriel Powell has posted two outstanding video tutorials on the same subject on his InstantInDesign website. They are Episode 10 (Creating an eBook with InDesign Part 1) and Episode 11 (Part 2).
After reading and watching Gabriel’s material, you’ll be well on your way to designing books smarter…so they can be converted easily to ePub.
2 Comments
November 24, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Walt,
Great timing, I was just starting to look for information on this topic, thanks for the links.
November 25, 2009 at 8:22 am
Gabriel provides some great info, doesn’t he? I was considering trying to put together what I’d learned about ID-to-ePub but then I read his article (I was late getting to that issue)…then his outstanding video series. There’s no way I could have done it as well, so I decided to just refer folks to the guy who really knows this stuff!
Walt