Comments on: BookGlutton co-founder: We’ve released an easy ePub conversion tool http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 17 May 2008 03:57:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Richard http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-797148 Richard Tue, 13 May 2008 02:10:26 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-797148 Jim, I think you're spot with the requirement for having support for multiple XHTML files. One extra thing, as a very small publisher, I really need this to be automated -- as in, the software should break up the book into a set of XHTML files based on headings or something that I can define. I was moaning recently on an <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2007/10/exporting_epubs_from_indesign.html" rel="nofollow">Adobe blog</a> about this. It's absurd that I need to go and create 100 separate InDesign files just to publish a 100 chapter ePub ebook from InDesign. There's headings, a TOC, etc. so it must be pretty easy to work out a satisfactory structure. Jim,

I think you’re spot with the requirement for having support for multiple XHTML files.

One extra thing, as a very small publisher, I really need this to be automated — as in, the software should break up the book into a set of XHTML files based on headings or something that I can define.

I was moaning recently on an Adobe blog about this. It’s absurd that I need to go and create 100 separate InDesign files just to publish a 100 chapter ePub ebook from InDesign. There’s headings, a TOC, etc. so it must be pretty easy to work out a satisfactory structure.

]]> By: Jim Lester http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-796816 Jim Lester Mon, 12 May 2008 21:08:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-796816 This is a very promising tool, however I did not see that it had support for having multiple XHTML files in the output ePub (ie for chapters). Using only one content file is on our list of things to avoid (see our <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/epubs/EPUBBestPractices-1_0_2.epub" rel="nofollow">ePub best practices guide</a>) for anything other than very short content (<300K). While this is certainly allowed by the ePub spec, the problem is that for mobile readers, you will hit memory limitations for larger content, that you wouldn't run into when the content is split up. This is a very promising tool, however I did not see that it had support for having multiple XHTML files in the output ePub (ie for chapters). Using only one content file is on our list of things to avoid (see our ePub best practices guide) for anything other than very short content (<300K). While this is certainly allowed by the ePub spec, the problem is that for mobile readers, you will hit memory limitations for larger content, that you wouldn’t run into when the content is split up.

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-794453 Rob Preece Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-794453 As promised, I've done a bit of experimenting with this program. It appears to work very well with a few formatting quibbles (possibly related to deprecated HTML tags). I was able to convert an entire novel in a matter of seconds, and read that novel on the FBReader with no problem. With a few tweaks to support graphics and minor formating fixes, this appears to be a usable system--and the price is right. I'm going to do a bit more experimenting before I add ePub to my assortment of supported formats, but as I offer HTML already, any user wanting to read in ePub could use this as is. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com As promised, I’ve done a bit of experimenting with this program. It appears to work very well with a few formatting quibbles (possibly related to deprecated HTML tags). I was able to convert an entire novel in a matter of seconds, and read that novel on the FBReader with no problem.

With a few tweaks to support graphics and minor formating fixes, this appears to be a usable system–and the price is right.

I’m going to do a bit more experimenting before I add ePub to my assortment of supported formats, but as I offer HTML already, any user wanting to read in ePub could use this as is.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-792141 Rob Preece Fri, 09 May 2008 03:31:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/08/bookglutton-releases-an-easy-epub-conversion-tool/#comment-792141 I've said for a long time that if the IDPF wants small publishers to try ePub, it'll have to do something like this. I'll give it a try and let you know what I think (here I've been hoping to have one more format to add to my tower of eBabel). Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForaBuck.com I’ve said for a long time that if the IDPF wants small publishers to try ePub, it’ll have to do something like this. I’ll give it a try and let you know what I think (here I’ve been hoping to have one more format to add to my tower of eBabel).

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForaBuck.com

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