E-book the Roaring Mouse

The book publishing industry's culture led to the mistakes that brought us here! The rapid rise of Amazon Kindle as a leader in e-Book selling.

What Do You Need to Start?

• Hardware
• Software
• Skills needed

Most of the resources are free. I will give you a nine-step guide to create an ePub e-Book.

CSS the Wizard of Oz

A quick 30,000 feet jet view of the cascading style sheet magic to be performed on an e-Book.

What Is a Book?

A book has front, middle and back matter. From a title page to an index a book is composed of many sections and or chapters.

HTML Text File Modifications

How to bring that e-Book hog under your control?

• Paragraph tag
• Div tag
• Ordered and Unordered List tags
• Img tag
• Link tag
• Span tag
• Top Ten HTML Tags from the Hall of Fame

Examples of the HTML tags used are explained.

Continuing Into the Depths of Epub

Shown here are the ePub components and their key relationships. My book has the templates for the ePub components such as:

• Metadata
• Manifest
• Spine
• Guide
• Toc.ncx

Building the EPub E-book for Distribution

The ePub e-Book is a popular standard. Ipad, Nook, and Sony use this standard. Now, I will show you the ePub recipe ingredients and teach you to cook an appealing e-Book.

Building the Kindle Mobi E-book for Distribution

You now know how to make an ePub. What about making a Kindle e-Book? We use our new ePub skills to create a Kindle e-Book. You will use the Kindlegen previewer to generate a mobi file from an ePub file. True, there are minor differences between the Kindle and ePub e-Books.

The Lazy Man's Guide to E-book Publishing

Don't reinvent the wheel! Just follow my simple steps to build an e-Book.

Do You Really Need A Book Cover

• Use Kindle DTP to Make Your Kindle Book Covers
• Where to go have cover design work done?

The simple answer is yes!

Publishing your Kindle EBook on Amazon

What do you have to do to be published in Amazon's Kindle catalog?

Publishing your Epub on Smashwords

What do you have to do to be published in Smashwoard's catalog?

Links To Resources

Where you can obtain software and e-Book tools. Because they are free the price can't be beat!

There are seven appendixes containing the ePub templates used to build this E-Book. I can provide a link to an online resource with easy to copy templates to ease the work in building a Kindle or an ePub e-Book.