LIA Cast 93 - Making Ebooks
Ebook creative workflow, options to consider when publishing, and more!
Ebooks are a great low-risk way to make your work available to a wide audience. Whether you're preparing, writing, editing, and publishing Ebooks there's a million ways to go about it.
How do you pick which tools to use and which places to sell?
In this episode, Jerzy interviews Rob about how he navigated these concerns for his soon to be released: Game Construction Kit: Underwater Tomato Ninja!
Links mentioned:
- Apple iBooks Publishing
- Apple iBooks Author
- Amazon Self Publishing
- Barnes and Noble Nook Publishing
- Google Play Ebook Publishing
- Gumroad
- Sellfy
- Sigil Ebook editor and viewer
- Pandoc
- Markdown
- Marked - Markdown live preview app
- Brett Terpstra and his Systematic Podcast
- David Sparks and Katy Floyd: Mac Power Users Podcast
- Discover Meteor Ebook
- Epub Ebook Format
- Comparison of Ebook Formats
- Sublime Text
- Markdown Editing Package for Sublime Text
- ByWord Markdown Editor for Mac OS X
- Omni Outliner
- The bash shell/terminal in OS X
- The grep command
- Zombies at the Gates and Where the Weird Kids Go
- Adobe InDesign
- Hammer App for OS X - HTML project automation
- Blue Griffon - Free HTML Editor
- Intervention Con
- Kids Read Comics
- Lean Into Art Workshops Page
- Lean Into Art Books Page
Code and Ebook Examples
- An ambitious multi-language Ebook example, open source and built in Markdown converted via Pandoc also a shortcut to just the English edition markdown source
- Using Pandoc to Build Your EPUB Ebook
- Rob's command line examples to use with Pandoc to produce ebooks
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