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Books Creating and Reading an eBooks If you are reading this page, then you are also "plugged in" to the new world of electronic media. We try to give you everything you need on these pages, but we also try to organize the material in even more ascribe formats you can more easily take with you. For instance, in calibration of our 30 years anniversary, we are working hard to convert all of the NewsJournals to eBooks. There Is No Death and There are No Dead is already available as an eBook for Kindle and in the ePub format for iPad and other open source readers.
In the interest of encouraging you to follow suit by making your work more available, we are providing information about how to convert material originally intended for Internet, PDF or paper print into eBooks
Amazon Kindle The Kindle uses a version of html format. It is relatively easy to reformat PDF books into the Kindle format, but the results are often not very satisfactory, and if you intend to share or sell your PDF book, I recommend that you take a little time to set up the table of contents to include live links for each chapter.
You can register at on the Amazon website and access their upload tool. The tool includes a review feature but there are a lot of problems with it. Amazon recommends that you use their Kindle Previewer. I already downloaded Kindle for PC but it did not let me review unpublished material. This one does.
Amazon also said to use KindleGen which is the only "authorized converter." It is operated from the C: prompt which is almost older then me. But then they said "If you can convert your content into MOBI/PRC/AZW formats, you can use the Kindle Previewer to preview your Kindle content, for better preview results."
Why is it not well publicized that they accept MOBI? anyway, I then went to a subsidiary company of Amazon called MobiPocket eBook and downloaded this converter.
I used that to convert the html version I have been trying to test with the online viewer. I reviewed that using the Kindle Previewer on my PC, worked out the kinks with a few iterations (Mobipocket tells you if there are formatting errors and where to look for them) and then uploaded it to the server for publishing.
Convert your cover to 600 by 800 JPEG. Since Kindle is grayscale, I recommend that you convert al of your pictures to grayscale, 96 bit JPEG.
The Table of Contents are at the very top of the document before the cover and can be linked to the title page of each chapter. I have attached an abbreviated file for our book that will give you a sense of layout. It will open with your Internet browser to read. I recommend you find a simple WYSIWYG editor, perhaps from http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml. You only need to learn a few edit commands and these programs make it easy.
ePub This is an open standard that we expect to see become the eBook standard. jedisaber.com has a good tutorial on this standard.
Adobe Digital Edition is a good reader you can download to your computer for free. We us it to review our ePub documents to see how it will (should) look when you read it in your portable reader.
I used the Atlantis word processor to convert our book. We originally developed it in Word as a .doc file. Atlantis opens and saves .doc files and is a pretty good program for $35 US. I began by changing the file to rtf, and after editing, using the "Save as eBook" feature. The nice thing about the program is that it comes with a template for ePub that helps you get the cover and table set right.
Adobe Digital Editions has an ePub reader that will allow you to review your work. It is a free download.
The ePub format is accepted by iPad and Engram is an authorized supplier. We have had a lot of trouble getting Lightening Source to communicate with us and I recommend telephone as primary means, as they tend to ignore emails.
There is an ePub tester on the Three Press Consulting website at threepress.org/document/epub-validate/
Special HTML code for Kindle
New page is <mbp:pagebreak />
Remove <p style="text-indent:-0.0in;margin-left:0.25in"> for bullet list.
Atlantis puts in /> for bookmark but does not include a </a> after the title. Remove the one and add the other.
For the Cover Image insert cover bookmark on cover picture
For the Beginning: Insert Start bookmark at first line of body
For the Table of Contents: Insert TOC bookmark at top of TOC.
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