Your eBook Survival Kit

A practical, hands-on guide into the essentials of composing and publishing for eBooks. The Kit provides advice and step-by-step instructions on how to set up a file for conversion into the dominant formats of ePub, xhtml and pdf and then how to package it for uploading to online distributors such as Amazon, Apple and Kobo by starting with a master file that is similar to that created for print or print on demand production. The Kit also provides strategies for getting out the word about your title to the global community.


David P Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction, and Director of IP, an innovative print and digital publisher in Brisbane, Australia. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards.

His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award. His book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. Other significant works are The Gallery, interactive multimedia completed while he was in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada; Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002; and Sharpened Knife, a multimedia murder mystery. IP released his novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and The Greenhouse Effect, a novel for junior readers, was published by Lothian Books (Hachette-Livre) in 2004, is now in its second edition, and being developed into an animated film. Global Cooling and Tiger Tames the Min Min are sequels in his Project Earth-mend sci-fi environmental junior novel series. His radio play about the relationship between the painters Gauguin and van Gogh, Paul & Vincent, was produced ABC Radio National, and by 4MBS Classical FM, followed by the release of a version on CD. His most recent novel is Primary Instinct, a satire on primary school education, and his latest film is Nullarbor Song Cycle.

David has been writer-in-residence at a number of places, most recently Bundanon (the Arthur Boyd property near Nowra), in Auckland, New Zealand at the Michael King Centre, and as Established Writer-in-Residence at the KSP Writers Centre in Perth in 2010. His latest work is a short film, Nullarbor Song Cycle, now in post-production.

David has taught at several universities in Canada and Australia and led many workshops on creative writing and publishing. Regarded as a publishing futurist, he is much in demand as a keynote speaker and presenter at festivals and conferences in Australia and abroad.