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BISG WEBCAST:
Practical E-Book Formatting: Limitations and Optimizations

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

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Presentation description:

The e-book market is booming and the number of devices that can read e-books is growing fast. Join this BISG Webcast to find out what formatting works and what doesn't on different platforms, with specific suggestions for making your e-books look great no matter where your consumers read them.

The 60-minute online workshop will be broken into three parts:

• General Formatting: an overview of the basic formatting and structure of an e-book, including general layout guidelines and a discussion on good coding and conversion practices
• Advanced Formatting: an in-depth look at some more advanced features in e-books, like images, lists, outlines, fonts, Unicode text, tables, sidebars, pull quotes, footnotes, etc.
• Extreme Formatting: an overview of the more extreme formatting possibilities that will only work on some devices and in certain settings, but that push the boundaries of e-book formats

Because there are too many e-book devices and software programs to cover all of them, the formatting parts of this workshop will focus on the similarities and differences between the following platforms:

• Kindle 2
• Kindle DX
• Kindle for the PC/Mac
• Sony Reader, B&N nook, and other devices using the Adobe SDK
• Adobe Digital Editions
• Aldiko (on Android)
• iBooks on the iPad

The workshop will only be looking at formatting in the Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub standards, not in eReader, LIT, or other old formats. Questions and thoughts will be encouraged throughout the workshop, and sample e-book files and their sources will be available so that you can follow along.

Presented by:

Joshua Tallent, eBook Architects

Joshua Tallent has been an e-book developer for 7 years, and is an expert on formatting e-books in the variety of formats on the market, including Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub. His book, Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide, has been praised as the most helpful and thorough explanation of the detailed process involved in formatting great-looking e-books for the Amazon Kindle. eBook Architects, his e-book conversion and consulting business, provides services to the breadth of the publishing industry, from big companies, to small publishers and individual authors. Joshua resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters. He can be found online at www.ebookarchitects.com and on Twitter @jtallent or @ebookarchitects.

location:
ONLINE WEBCAST

For details email: Angela Bole
Phone: 646-336-7141

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