By David Kudler So I was going to pull together a post looking at the specific challenges of designing a cover for an ebook (as opposed to a print or audiobook edition), but a client presented me with a challenge that I thought I’d share with you. This is going to be...
By David Kudler I ruffled some feathers a while back when I pronounced that a PDF isn’t an ebook, but an ePub is [i] in my article, “What IS an Ebook?” I really didn’t mean to cause a kerfuffle; I didn’t mean that ePubs are somehow better than PDFs, in all...
By David Kudler Last month I talked about just what an ebook is — a website in a box. Ebooks come in a number of flavors, but for the purposes of this discussion I’m going to stick with the most common and most malleable format of ebook, the ePub file that is...
By David Kudler I’m honored to have been invited to post on The Book Designer on the subject of ebooks — a subject I love talking about, having been designing ebooks since 2010. (In this industry that makes me practically an old-timer.) There are lots of very complex...
By Jeff Bach (@jjbachauthor) Most of us don’t think about converting our books to ebooks until after they’re completed and ready for publication. In this article, Jeff Bach explains how we can view them before they’re ready to be published and why we...