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PressBooks | Simple Book Publishing. Sprightly Books ~ Creating Interactive eBooks With iBooks Author and EPUB. eBook Publishing | Chemical Shift. I put together a standard operating procedure (SOP) that I used to produce ebook versions of books that existed in print and PDF forms at my previous employer, including the one I wrote, Failure Analysis Techniques for Electronics. Luckily, I had the original Microsoft Word files for each book as a starting point. SOP for creating eBook files from MS Word documents Open/Edit Document in MS Word Word .doc files have to be converted into HTML.Please note that Word .docx files are much easier to convert since they are already in an XML file format, which is similar to HTML.

XML was designed to store and transport data, while HTML was designed to display data and its appearance.Remove the page numbers from the Table of Contents by going to References, Insert Table of Contents, uncheck box for Show Page Numbers.File, Save As, Web Page, Filtered, .HTM file. Change file name if you want. Known Issues: eBook Stores and Resources Helpful Independent Articles, Books, and Resources. Articles by Serenity Caldwell. Making ebooks in Pages 5.2: Here's what works now (and what still doesn't) Even before iBooks Author took the stage in 2012, Apple offered the average Mac user a way to build basic ebooks through its word-processing software, Pages.

Now, after four years of stagnation, the company has (surprisingly) started improving the app’s ePub export capabilities. Here’s a look at what’s changed (and what still needs work). Four years of silence Pages originally debuted its ebook export option back in August of 2010. Like its Word export feature, Pages’s ebook export could only translate certain aspects of your document into ePub format (the primary filetype used by iBooks as well as most non-Amazon readers available at the time); so, for example, certain text stylings and rich text elements might not appear correctly in the ePub.

Apple provided interested ebook-makers with some basic guidelines and an externally-linked template in a support document on its website, but both had omissions and offered clunky workarounds in compensation for missing features. The joke’s on me. Serenity Caldwell - Çingleton 2012. Storehouse - Visual Storytelling. Chris harris. iBooks Author support for the iPhone should be on Apple's to-do list. For all we’ve heard about iOS 7 in the lead up to next week’s iPhone event, one Apple avenue has been eerily silent: iBooks and the iBooks Store (née iBookstore). If nothing else, the app is ripe for a design change in line with the rest of iOS 7, and the WWDC preview of OS X Mavericks’s iBooks for Mac would seem to suggest as much—a demo of the Mac app given by Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi showed nary a wooden shelf or animated page turn in sight.

But that alone won’t be enough to give iBooks its time in the spotlight next Tuesday. Instead, I suspect we’ll see something a little more significant: support for iBooks Author ebooks on the iPhone. Author, author! When the company’s free iBooks Author tool and its proprietary format were first released in 2012, Apple had a legitimate reason to exclude the iPhone. But times have changed. iBooks Author ebooks have expanded far beyond textbooks, and they can now be read on the iPad mini and even support portrait layouts.

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