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Electronic Books and ePublishing: A Practical Guide for Authors

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I bought this book because I wanted to understand what electronic publishing is about and what the future might hold. I also wanted to understand if I could publish my own novel and how I could go about using tools like Microsoft Word or Framemaker to do so. I found the book was a good read and the history of electronic publishing was pretty interesting, I didn't know the first printed books were printed to look like handwritten books. My questions about how to publish my own books were mostly answered and the information on tools and fonts was helpful. The CD that comes with the book was very handy as it had the entire book in PDF format and I could do a full text search on the book, so when I wanted to search on something like fonts, I could find every hit in the book. Also some sample ebook chapters on the CD showed me how I could publish multiple ebooks from Word. The section where experts from companies like Microsoft talked about the future of epublishing was also good.

It was my fault that I purchased this book without looking at the publication date, which was 2001. I'm sure this book was good 9 years ago, but the technology of epublishing has changed so much that this book is now redundant. This book is in the pile for the secondhand store already, even though I only received it yesterday.

a very good book for all the begineers in ebooks industry, it explain all the details in a very clear and easy-to-understand method.