Your eBook Survival Kit, 4th Edition de David P. Reiter

Your eBook Survival Kit, 4th Edition

David P. Reiter

A practical, no-nonsense guide into the essentials of composing and publishing eBooks. The Kit provides advice and step-by-step instructions on how to set up a file for conversion into the dominant formats of ePub, mobi (Kindle), optimized pdf as well as the new Fixed Layout formats suitable for spread-oriented books. You'll then see how to package the files for uploading to online distributors such as Amazon, Apple and Google by starting with a master file that is similar to that created for print or print on demand (POD) production. The Kit also provides strategies for getting out the word about your title to the global community. What's new in the 4th Edition? • Information on the new export features from Adobe InDesign (Creative Cloud Suite) that allow you to export your files with confidence to the key eBook formats • an up-to-date review of the latest eBook Readers, smartphones, phablets and tablets in terms of their functionality for enhanced eBook files • Step-by-step instructions on how to set up your book in Kindle Create and iBooks Author, and how to prepare, test and add interactive and multimedia elements to enhance your eBook • How to streamline your workflow from Word or Pages via Adobe's Creative Cloud Suite to shorten the conversion process • Hands-on directions on how to use emulators like Sigil and Calibre to fine-tune your ePub files and convert them to Kindle friendly mobi files • How to validate your files offline with a single click before uploading them to distributors like Google, Apple, Kobo and Amazon • When to outsource tasks related to your book's preparation and conversion to eBook formats, and how much you should expect to pay • Up-to-date social media strategies for spreading the word about your book • And much, much more!

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David P Reiter is an award-winning author of prose and poetry as well as film maker and creator of digital narratives. He's CEO at IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd), an innovative print and digital company in Brisbane, Australia. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was short-listed for the Adelaide Festival Awards. Other earlier books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award and his book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. Other significant works are The Gallery, interactive multimedia completed while he was in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada; and Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002. IP released his novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and his four-book Project Earth-mend junior novel series, including The Greenhouse Effect (Hachette), Global Cooling, Tiger Tames the Min Min and Tiger Takes the Big Apple (IP Kidz). His radio play about the relationship between the painters Gauguin and van Gogh, Paul & Vincent, was produced by ABC Radio National, and by 4MBS Classical FM. Primary Instinct is a satire on primary school education. David has been writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada (twice), Bundanon (the Arthur Boyd property near Nowra, New South Wales), the Michael King Centre (NZ), and at the KSP Writers Centre in Perth as Established Writer-in-Residence. He has been recipient of several grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency, and Arts Queensland. The interactive website My Planets Reunion Memoir won the Western Australian Premier's Award for Digital Narrative in 2012, and a short film, Nullarbor Song Cycle, was short-listed for the same award in 2011. His picture book, Bringing Down the Wall was the Canadian Children's Book Centre selection for Best Book for Teens and Kids in 2013. His most recent works are Timelord Dreaming (2015) Black Books Publishing (2018), a satire on the publishing industry, and Time Lords Remixed: a Dr Who Poetical (2020). David has taught at several universities in Canada and Australia and led many workshops on creative writing and publishing. Regarded as a publishing futurist, he is much in demand as a keynote speaker and presenter at festivals and conferences in Australia and abroad.