E-book improvements favour professional publishers

E-books are becoming more sophisticated. But you're going to need professional-level skills to take advantage of the improvements

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Electronic book or paperback?

In this guest blog, author Clare Le May asks why some e-books are more expensive than their print counterparts. Shouldn't they be cheaper?

Getting the price right

E-books should be cheap - so why is that not always the case?

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Creating ePub files with InDesign CS5

InDesign CS5 does an excellent job of creating ePub e-book documents, but you might still want to do a little tweaking

Amazon passes the e-book tipping point

Online retailer now sells more e-books than paperbacks

PubIt! misses the point

E-publishing is a truly international business - something Barnes & Noble seems to have overlooked

First few days with the third-generation Kindle

Okay, so I caved. I still think the Kindle is a dead-end technology. But I bought one anyway.

Creating e-books with iWork Pages

The recently updated Pages application now has an ePub export — there's no simpler way to create your e-book.

Publishing workflow: e-books are easier with paragraph styles

One of the keys to success with an e-book workflow is getting your paragraph and character styles sorted.

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Publishing on Apple's iBookstore - well, that was easy...

Publishing your book for the iPad is straightforward, if you have all your ducks in a row

Fixing Adobe InDesign CS3's ePub files (part 3)

The third part of our article of correcting InDesign CS3's ePub files looks at the toc.ncx file and CSS

Fixing Adobe InDesign CS3's ePub files (part 2)

Correcting errors and adding new entries in the content.opf file to make e-books created with InDesign CS3 more compliant

Fixing Adobe InDesign CS3's ePub files (part 1)

InDesign allows you to create ePub e-book files direct from your book's page layout. But it has its problems. Here's how to correct them

Zipping ePub files

The ePub file format is just a zip file. But you have to be careful how you construct it

More e-book trouble for Amazon

Two more publishers are dictating higher e-book prices, deserting Amazon's $9.99 model