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Writing and Publishing eBooks Made Easy #13 - More on Designing Your eBook
| Guest post by: Gary Baker |
Article Overview: Illustrations One nice feature of an eBook is that it doesn't cost extra to include photos, drawings, charts, etc.
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Writing and Publishing eBooks Made Easy #13 - More on Designing Your eBook
Illustrations One nice feature of an eBook is that it doesn't cost extra to include photos, drawings, charts, etc.
Illustrations do add to the total file size of your eBook, and this is an important consideration for the reader. (Keep in mind that many e-publishers and POD publishers won't accept illustrations.)
If you have a scanner, you can scan your own illustrations and convert them to .gif or .jpg files. A program like Photoshop will enable you to crop, enlarge, or reduce those images, or make other modifications.
It will also enable you to save them at a lower resolution, thus reducing file size. While Word does allow you to incorporate illustrations in your text, it's not always easy to position them precisely where you want them.
If you plan to use a lot of illustrations, you might want to consider using a desktop publishing programme.
When laying out photos or illustrations, be sure to leave an ample margin between the image and the surrounding text, and, where appropriate, include captions.
Front Matter
Your book doesn't really start with "Chapter One, page one." It starts with "front matter," including:
A title page - Your title and image
A copyright page - The easiest way to generate one of these is to check the copyright page of any print book and type in the same information, substituting your own name, book title, date, etc.
Don't include the "Library " information or the numbers that indicate the "edition" of the book. Don't bother with an ISBN unless you actually plan to offer physical copies of the book (e.g. on disk) through electronic bookstores like Amazon.
Acknowledgements - if desired
Table of contents - while many print books number front matter separately from the rest of the book, this can be awkward in an eBook.
The easiest approach is to treat the first page of your book (even if it's the title page) as "Page 1." (you can generate this automatically in Word by using "headings" formats for your chapter titles and subheads).
Back matter - the back of your book is a good place for an index, your bio, and contact information. It's also a good place to include advertisements for any other books that you are selling.
Keep in mind that even though your book may be formatted in one page size, you can easily include 8.5 x 11 flyers in the same book!
Formatting in Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat takes your Word document and displays it "as is" in a PDF file. To generate a PDF file, use the "print" command in Word and select the "Save as File" option under the "General" pull-down menu.
Select "Acrobat PDF" as the file type and set "Destination" to "File." Hit the "print" button and your document will be converted to a PDF file.
If you actually own Acrobat, you can add other useful features to your eBook. For example, you can automatically hotlink every URL in the text.
I recommend underlining links or formatting them in a colour, such as blue, so that the reader will easily recognize them as hotlinks.
Don't bother hotlinking URLs in your original Word document, as these links won't be retained in your PDF file. You can link your table of contents directly to the text.
You can also import pages or files from other programs, including charts and illustrations.
If you plan to import files, leave a blank page in your original document, to be replaced by the imported page; otherwise, your pagination will be incorrect.
You can also set various protection levels for your book (including a restriction on printing, though I don't recommend this!).
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