ePublishing with InDesign CS6: Design and produce digital publications for tablets, ereaders, smartphones, and more - Softcover

Burke, Pariah S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118305590 ISBN 13: 9781118305591

Publisher: Sybex, 2012

Synopsis

Here's the designer's guide to creating excellent e-books with InDesign

Creative professionals are designing more and more e-books and e-zines as digital publishing increasingly gains market share. This book pulls together a wide range of essential information to help them maximize the versatility of InDesign for e-publishing. If you need to know how to build, deploy, and manage digital publications using InDesign, here's your guide to the process, from understanding the platforms and devices and how best to design for them to creating media-rich content for multiple formats using a variety of technologies.

• Designers are seeking to sharpen their skills to compete in today’s e-publishing market, and this book is packed with necessary information about creating and adapting content for e-publication
• Explains how to plan a new digital publication, convert a print publication to digital, add multimedia and interactivity, and publish and distribute the finished product
• Covers platforms, devices, and formats; creating media-rich content; designing for different devices; and managing digital publications
• Examines Adobe's Digital Publishing System, CSS, HTML5, and other commercial vehicles available for e-publishing on multiple platforms, including iPad, Kindle, NOOK, and other tablets and e-readers

ePublishing with InDesign is a valuable tool for designers seeking to boost their skills and create cutting-edge e-publications.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Create, Deploy, and Manage Digital Publications

If you want to create digital publications with engaging layouts and pages that pop, let epublishing expert Pariah Burke show you how. This book provides the information you need to design and launch your digital publications, including how to create econtent from scratch and how to convert print publications to digital formats.

This book walks you through the entire process: planning, adding multimedia and interactivity, and publishing using InDesign. Step-by-step instructions and hands-on projects help you quickly build skills. In no time, you'll design media-rich ebooks, emagazines, ecatalogs, and more!

• Explore how to create content for the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Nook, Android tablets, and other devices
• Design, deploy, and manage richly interactive digital magazines, ecatalogs, ebooks, etextbooks, and more
• Produce touch-interactive digital publications with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Aquafadas Digital Publishing System
• Add audio, video, and images to your ebooks
• Produce ebooks of the highest quality and maximum compatibility with EPUB and Kindle KF8
• Plan a PDF publication and leverage its epublishing potential
• Learn to navigate and thrive in the complex landscape of digital publication formats, purposes, and viewing devices

About the Author

Pariah Burke is a design, print, and epublishing workflow consultant and trainer. In addition to Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production, he is the author or coauthor of five other books and more than 350 published articles. He is also a coauthor of the InDesign and Illustrator CS4 and CS5 Adobe Certified Expert exams, an Adobe Community Professional, and a freelance designer with twenty years' experience. Pariah is the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and design-business webinars, as well as publisher of a network of websites, communities, and tools for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (www.WorkflowNetwork.com).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118305590
• ISBN 13: 9781118305591
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576