Epub and Ebook Resources
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
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