How To Produce An eBook With Apple's Pages - Part 1. Creating eBooks from WordPress Posts and Pages. I have a client I’ve recently finished up a website for. It’s a Yoga site and the owner is well respected within her community (actually, she’s well respected outside of her community, I’d imagine. She tips nicely and smells of elderberries and baby powder) and has written quite a bit on the topic of Yoga, naturally. The other day she posed a question to me: “Alex, can I use WordPress to create a PDF of several posts I’ve done? I’d like to create an eBook from my content and try to save some time in the process.” I raised an eyebrow, nodded and said, “Ummm, let me get back to you on that one, mmkay?”
To say the least, the request made perfect sense, however, I was a bit confused as to what I could do to help my beloved client… I didn’t know of any plugins that did this simple task. I took to Google and pushed ahead with some good ol’ “Googling” to see if I could quickly find what I wanted. Anthologize, as of this writing, is still in Alpha. What do you think? Creating an ePub Book Using Pages - How to Make the eBook Cover Look Good. About a month ago, I attended the ISTE 2011 Conference in Philadelphia, where I led one workshop on the iPad and later collaborated with four other Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) on another workshop. The topic of this second workshop was using Apple’s Pages word processing and page layout program to create ePub files. That is, eBooks in the ePub format. Last week, I participated in the Apple Distinguished Educators Summer Institute in Phoenix, AZ.
The ADE Summer Institute is five days of intensive professional development and camaraderie with some of the best educators you’ll find anywhere. As part of our work there, small teams designed and collaborated on projects of interest. Our group began work on “leveraging digital assets for professional development.” The topic of ePub book covers came up in our team meeting as we designed a sample ePub resource. When you export from Pages for ePub, you check an option to use the first page contents as the cover. 1. How to create an awesome eBook Template using Word or Apple Pages. Today I received some requests about The Woork Handbook template I published yesterday. Some readers asked to me to distribute that template for their eBooks. So in this post I want to illustrate some guidelines to create an awesome eBook template, quickly and in few steps. I prepared the template which you can download (for Apple Pages and Microsoft Word) and reuse it for your eBooks (I used Apple pages to write the eBook!).
Download Apple Pages template Download Microsoft Word template eBook Format You can print the eBook on A4 format page (2 pages for each facade). Document structure The document is divided in sections. Adding a section break: - Apple Pages: Insert > Section Break- Microsoft Word: Insert > Break > Section break (next page) Page header This is a not necessary element but i like have a short description in the header of the my pages.
In general "page header" isn't placed on the first page of the chapter: Chapter structure using document styles Table of contents It's all! How To Create An eBook - Quickly and Free. Way to convert PDF To EPUB for MAC. New Tab. Making an ePub book in Pages. Creating, Uploading, and Using Ebooks in Pages and iBooks.