Editing and Publishing e-Books

You wrote a book. Very nice. But you didn’t write to keep it for you. You should publish it. The problem is that the publishers charge high prices for some authors pockets, and do it objectively, due to the high cost of printing.
But you allowed that luxury, and now you have a printed book, with you as the author. You can keep hundreds or thousands of volumes in your personal library and give it as a gift to your friends in special occasions, or try to distribute in various libraries. You managed to distribute it, the book is beautifully placed in shelves. In time, dust is spread on covers. After a while, the book is withdrawn. It remains to use it as decoration at home, or support for various household items.

But lucky for you, there is an alternative, cheaper and more effective, in selling your book: e-Books!

e-Book and online publishing market has evolved rapidly in recent years, and a lot of companies have entered this market, as publishers, online bookstores, or promoting e-books.

CONTENTS:

Books
– The Book Science
– Book chain
– – Creation
– – Production
– – Marketing
– – Other forms of secondary spread
– – Evolution of the book industry
– Book economics
– – Descriptive elements
– – – Reading and editing
– – – The Book market
– – Writing and editing books
– – – An endless supply of writers?
– – – Publishing contracts
– – Book market theory
– – – Differentiated products with uncertain prospects
– – – Booksellers, prescribers and word of mouth
Editing
– Calibre
– – Management of one or more libraries
– – – Structure
– – – User Interface
– – – Virtual or separate libraries
– – e-Book conversion to various digital formats
– – Synchronization with e-readers and other e-book reading devices
– – – Managed e-readers
– – Downloading articles from the web and publishing as a digital book
– – e-Reader
– – Content server for online access to its collection of books
– – Calibre and DRM
– iBooks Author
– Sigil
Publishing
– Book publishing
– Book manufacturing and trade
– – Creation
– – From the author to the publisher
– – From the publisher to the printer
– – Printing
– – Marketing
– Intellectual activity
– Publishing houses
– Vanity press
– – Commercial service
– – Conditions
– Small press
– – Definitions
– – – Pragmatic definition
– – – Independent publishers facing the majors publishers
– – – Proposals to reform the publishing industry
– Self-publishing
– – Stages of publication
– – Market
– Print on demand
– – Benefits
– – Applications
– – Dedicated machines
Electronic publishing
– Network edition
– The web content
– Print on demand
– Free license vs. proprietary license
– Project Gutenberg
– The digital edition
– The „ideal” characteristics of the electronic text
– – Readability
– – Maneuverability
– – Quotability
– – Localization
– – Impacts
– COUNTER
– Open access
– – Authors and researchers
e-Books
– Advantages and disadvantages
– – Maneuverability
– – Accessibility
– – Independence of the reading device
– – Risks
– History
– Digital Rights Management (DRM)
– – Watermarking
– – Free books
e-Book formats
– EPUB
– – Concept
– – Reading material
– – – eReaders
– – – Smartphones and tablets
– – Software
– – – EPUB Managers
– – – EPUB Readers
– – – EPUB Editors
– – – Word processing and desktop publishing software exporting to EPUB
– – – EPUB Converters
– MP3 files
– – Uses
– – Utilizations
– PDF documents (Portable Document Format)
– Word DOC documents
– – Alternatives
– ZIP files
– – Decompression programs
– – Tips
e-Readers
– History of e-book readers
– e-Book reader specifications
– e-Books or paper book?
– – Benefits
– – Disadvantages
– Environmental impact
– Amazon Kindle
– – Description and features
– iBooks
– – Presentation
– – Installation
– – Operation
– – Formats
– Nook
– – Technical specifications
– Scribd
– – Supported formats
– – Products and features
Quotes
References
Abouth the author
– Nicolae Sfetcu
– – By the same author
– – Contact
Publishing House
– MultiMedia Publishing

MultiMedia Publishing
– e-Book: EPUB (ISBN 978-606-033-050-9), Kindle (ISBN 978-606-033-052-3), PDF (ISBN 978-606-033-051-6)