I’ve also recently become worried by hints that epub’s official developers are big on adding what’s euphemistically called rich media to epub. Not thinking about that distinction is, in my mind, not thinking about ebooks at all. The last time I checked, ebook readers couldn’t even handle something as trivial as widows and orphans. The epub standards and epub readers need to be smart enough to handle page breaks intelligently and practically for all screen sizes. On the other hand, readers PAGE through ebooks. Users SCROLL through webpages, so there’s no reason to fret about handling breaks in the text. When people want to read, they want to read.Įpub development has also missed a critical distinction between webpages and ebooks. It bombed then because the public did not want to blend medias. I was working for Microsoft back in the late 1980s when multimedia was the buzz, driven by the added space on CD-ROMs. These troubles and others should have been cleared up long ago and by now epub should be much more powerful than it is.įar too much effort has been devoted to adding audio and video content to ebooks. (Found via Ebooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content Publishing on LinkedIn.)Īt times I wonder if there’s anyone developing the epub standards who understands ebook publishing particularly by small publishers and independent authors.
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For basics on the free Sigil editor, check out Felix Pleşoianu’s guide here on TeleRead. Also see Blank line issue pits Scrivener against EPUB standards, Chris Meadows’ post, for an example of the limits of automated solutions. Related: ePub validation tool-to make sure you ePub complies with the standard. Let’s hope that this time the standards people are more helpful to publishers of all sizes and early on can develop good authoring tools and encourage others to do the same. Why can’t the industry get this right? And now the International Digital Publishing Forum-the group behind ePub-may merge with the World Wide Web Consortium and team up on new standards for other reasons.
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It’s a huge failing of ePub-the fact it’s been around for years and you may still need to resort to manual editing, even for a simple book, unless you want to use a commercial service.
But what if you care about the details and know the readers will, too?Įven the people at Kotobee, the developers of Kotobee Author, admit that only so much can be automated. Yes, sometimes Calibre, Scrivener and the like are enough for creating e-books, especially for your personal use or very limited distribution. Here’s a handy overview of the basics of manually editing ePub, the industry standard format for e-books-courtesy of Kotobee.
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