Electronic Books and Epublishing: A Practical Guide for Authors [With CD-ROM]

By Harold Henke

Since the advent of personal computers, experts have predicted the paperless office, the rise of the electronic book, and the mass communication effect of the World Wide Web as the beginning of the end of the book. However, trends show that sales of paper increased with sales of computer networks - people have been trained to read books, and are more familiar with the act of picking up a book and reading than looking at chunks of information.
There are many publishing applications that enable you to create sophisticated electronic books and distribute your electronic books to your readers via the World Wide Web or electronic book reader with ease not seen before in the publishing industry.
Electronic Books and ePublishing shows you how to design electronic books using the book metaphor. The information presented in this book is a culmination of the author's experience as an author and researcher, and includes valuable information gathered through user surveys, user focus groups, usability testing and participation in industry groups and standards organisations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852334355
• ISBN13: 9781852334352
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

ebooks and epublishing

a very good book for all the begineers in ebooks industry, it explain all the details in a very clear and easy-to-understand method.

Excellent Read!

I bought this book because I wanted to understand what electronic publishing is about and what the future might hold. I also wanted to understand if I could publish my own novel and how I could go about using tools like Microsoft Word or Framemaker to do so. I found the book was a good read and the history of electronic publishing was pretty interesting, I didn't know the first printed books were printed to look like handwritten books. My questions about how to publish my own books were mostly answered and the information on tools and fonts was helpful. The CD that comes with the book was very handy as it had the entire book in PDF format and I could do a full text search on the book, so when I wanted to search on something like fonts, I could find every hit in the book. Also some sample ebook chapters on the CD showed me how I could publish multiple ebooks from Word. The section where experts from companies like Microsoft talked about the future of epublishing was also good.