Monday, February 25th (10am to 10:50am): Become an eBook author! Attend online! Thursday, February 28th, 8pm, Adobe Connect (http://connect.eastern.edu/webinar)

1. Become an
eBook author!
Mark D. Puterbaugh
Information Services Librarian
Warner Memorial Library
Eastern University, St. Davids, PA

2. Presentation funded in part by
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine/
Mid-Atlantic Region’s
Technology Improvement Award

3. Kindle Made It Happen!
Amazon Kindle became the first
commercially successful e-reader
device.
eBooks are now common place.
The Kindle Store made eBooks
accessible to anywhere with
Whispernet and WhisperSync.

4. !
A Cottage Industry Arose

5. Lets Talk About This.
What do we want to
know?
HOW TO DELIVER Our purpose is to look at ways eBook
INSTRUCTIONAL creations can benefit student
MATERIALS TO MOBILE education.
DEVICES WHETHER THE
DEVICES ARE Are there ways to deliver instructional
CONNECTED TO THE materials to an eBook reader or other
NET OR NOT? mobile devices?
Can we take advantage of mobile
technology to make our notes and their
class information available to mobile
devices?

6. We had a hint in our last presentation.
E-books APPS Common To Mobile Platforms

7. It’s about formatting.
It’s all HTML to me!
Format for Nook or Kobo readers.
This is the Kindle format. AKA .azw.

8. WHAT YOU NEED TO START
It’s less than you think!

9. A WORD PROCESSOR

10. STRUCTURE IS IMPORTANT!
Learn your word processor.
Of course, content is
important.
But, in self publishing a
documents structure,
section headings, spacing,
paragraphs, are all very
important.
Proper structure can relieve
many headaches down the
line.

11. MobiPocket the father of your Kindle!
Formats
Word (DOC or DOCX); HTML (ZIP,
HTM, or HTML); Mobipocket (MOBI);
ePub (EPUB); Plain Text (TXT); Rich
Text Format (RTF); Adobe PDF (PDF)

12. TALES OF ANOTHER WORD PROCESSOR.
THE ePub Standard.

13. Served by an Active Community.

14. A Free Tool to Structure Your Document!

15. Something Different!

16. TESTING! TESTING TESTING!

17. TESTING! TESTING TESTING! WITHOUT A DEVICE?

18. The Great Conversion!

19. Books for a New Age!

20. The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far

21. Publishers’ Grid
Publisher % Of Profits Formats Available Exclusive Agreement Site Comments
Optional via Kindle Direct Publishing
Submit a word (doc or Select. can choose to make it
amazon.com, kindle
docx); html (zip, htm, exclusive to the kindle store for at
devices, and kindle apps
Amazon/Kin 35% ($0.99 to or html); mobipocket least 90 days and in return the book
for ipad, iphone, ipod https://kdp.amazon.com/
dle Direct $200.0); 70% (mobi); epub (epub); is eligible to be included in the
touch, pc, mac, self-publishing/signin
Publishing ($2.99 to $9.99) plain text (txt); rich text kindle owners' lending library and
blackberry, and android-
format (rtf); adobe pdf you can earn a share of the $6
based devices
(pdf). million annual fund based on how
frequently your book is borrowed.
Submit book to If a fee is charged for the book and You will need an isbn
ibookstore as a .Ibook it is in the .Ibook format, then it can number if selling your
file or .Epub; or use only be sold via ibookstore. Different https://itunesconnect.app book.
70% (less if you ibooks author and formats do not have this restriction. le.com/webobjects/itunes
iBooks are publishing export your book as a itunes If the book is free, even if it is in the connect.woa/wa/booksig
from a pc) pdf, text file, or .Ibooks .Ibook format then it can be nup
file which can be distributed through other retailers.
distributed outside
ibookstore.
http://www.kobobooks.c You will need an isbn
Kobo/Kobo 70% (>$1.99 and
.epub kobo no om/kobowritinglife number if selling your
Writing Life <$12.99)
book.
Isbn not needed to
publish in the lulu
marketplace. Lulu
.epub (can convert provides A free isbn,
90% if sold on .docx or .rtf; for retailer but they are listed as
ibookstore; nook; lulu http://www.lulu.com/publ the publisher. You can
lLulu lulu; varies if sold sites); .pdf; docx; epub no
marketplace ish/ebooks buy your own isbn and
on a retailer site (lulu marketplace
only) use that, then allowing
your book to be
distributed outside of
lulu.
bn.com, nook ebook
word (doc or docx); readers, and via free
40% (<$2.98 or
Nook / html (zip, htm, or html); nook ereading software
>$10); 65% no www.pubit.com
Pubit! epub (epub); plain for ipad, iphone/ipod
($2.99 to $9.99)
text (txt); rich text touch, mac, android, pc,
format (rtf) etc.

22. Links Mention in this Presentation
Kindle Direct Publishing
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org
Open Office Extensions
http://www.openoffice.org/extensions/
Sigil
http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
iBooks Author
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com