Chapter 5: Creating eBooks with InDesign

Whether creating ebooks from TXT files or word processor documents or converting existing print publications to EPUB, the basics are all the same. You must learn to think in terms of EPUB, to reevaluate how your content is organized, and to know how to structure it using InDesign’s built-in tools in order to produce well organized, readable ebooks. The yellow brick road to becoming a wizard of ebook production starts with this chapter and proceeds through the next several chapters, creating progressively more interesting, more marketable ebooks and other EPUB-based publications.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

Creating an eBook from Scratch

Testing Your EPUB

Styling Your eBook

Converting a Print Publication

to an eBook

Setting the Reading Order of Text, Images, and More