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Epub and Ebook Resources

This list of ebook and epublishing resources is a work in progress. Please email me or message me on Twitter to let me know what I’m missing!

Ebook and epub bloggers and sites: Liz Castro | Mike Shatzkin | Baldur Bjarnason| A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing | Let’s Get Digital | Writer’s Guide to Epublishing  |  Natasha Fondren | The Book Designer | Ebook Noir | Matthew Diener | Tina Henderson | Jane Friedman | Cari Jansen | Colleen Cunningham | Magellan Media | The Passive Voice | Carolyn McCray | Publetariat |  Self Publishing Adventure | Self-Publishing Review | ePub Secrets | Guido Henkel | Galley Cat | Digital Book World | Good Ereader | Publishers Lunch | Let me know about your ebook blog and I’ll add it here

Tutorials: What to put on your Copyright page | Anne Marie Concepcion’s In Design tutorials on Lynda.com | Amazon simplified formatting guide | DBW tutorial guide | Code an ePub book | Great lists of ePub resources | Tallent’s resource list | Ebooks from scratch | Special Character Cleanup Using GREP | CSS startup kit | Frontmatter basics | Media queries | More on media queries

Formatting: Formatting for Novels | Pull quote code | Guido’s guide to formatting | MobileRead Code Snippets | Liz Castro on media queries for poetry | Code snippets | Embedded media support by device | Image sizing | Tallent’s best practices | Formatting poetry | Liz Castro’s centering workarounds | Formatting images for iPad in ePub

Design: InfogridPacific on Margins and more | ePub Zen Garden | A List Apart on ebook design | Indents and Optical Margins | Creating a cover | Designing for the high-def iPad | Baldur Bjarnason on Hierarchies of ebook design

Tools: Text Wrangler and BBEdit | Kindle previewer, Kindlegen & InDesign plugin | How to automate Kindlegen | InDesign | Azardi ebook reader | Oxygen XML editor | Bluefire reader | Adobe Digital Editions reader | epub3 validator | Flightcrew validator

Fixed Layout for ePub

QA: Matthew Diener’s checklist | Mobile Read QA checklist Publishing Innovation Awards QA checklist

Cover Tips: Making Kindle covers | How to describe your cover image | Tablet aspect ratios and cover art | What size should your ebook cover be?

InDesign Tips: Anne Marie Concepcion’s In Design tutorials on Lynda.com | How to batch apply Alt tags | InDesign’s bad header exports | Adobe video tutorials | List tips | Adobe’s ePub developer resources

Amazon & Optimization: Metadata optimization | Amazon ebook landing page optimization | Bowker on metadata | Amazon category and tags optimization | More Amazon optimization | Castro on metadata | Amazon categories and tags | Creating an Amazon author page | MARC codes

Forums & Wikis: ePub forums | MobileRead, for everything ebook | MobileRead’s Conversion Matrix, list of e-book formats & eprdctn wiki  | IDPF Forums

Distribute: Amazon KDP | Barnes & Noble | iTunes

Marketing: Smashwords Marketing Guide | Galley Cat Reviews | GalleyCat New Books | Goodreads | Shelfari | Mobileread | Books on the Knob | Kindle Boards | Pricing | More pricing | Where to submit your ebook for review | Create an opt in message in your ebook | Free book of the day | KDP select promotion results | Marketing case study

Great posts: The end of ebook development| It’s time to treat ebook developers as developers

Other: HTML5 | TOC Presentations | HTML5 Support in today’s ereaders (Chart) |  ePub icons | Major ebook formats | BISAC codes | OPFRoles codes | ePub 3.0 resources | ePub 3.0 samples | ISBNs | Which eplatforms matter | Running epubcheck from your computer

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