Professional e-book design, e-book conversion & formatting services
Self-published writers, storybook writers and blog authors: Do you need help publishing an e-book in ePub, Amazon Kindle (.mobi format) that can be read on tablets such as the iPad, Kindle, Andriod, Sony Reader or Nook and on cell phones and other mobile devices? As your professional and affordable one-stop resource, we can help.
How does it work?
- Fill out the ePub e-Book Conversion Quick-Quote form stating your requirements or drop us an outlining your needs.
- We will then send you a quote. Once you accepted our quote, you will:
- Email us the manuscript you want us to convert in any digital format (e.g., Microsoft Word, Pages, InDesign, plain text or email) and the book cover image if you have it. (We can help with book cover design if you don’t have it.) Let us know the fonts you wish to use. (If your desired fonts are not OpenType, be sure you have the license to use them into your e-book.)
We create most e-book designs for just $100. If your book has a complex structure, such as lots of images, tables (tabular data), video or audio clips, the cost will be higher. Most work delivers within a week.
Your final e-book delivery includes a well-structure, accessible and professional ePub or ePub3-formatted e-book coded with HTML5 and CSS3, a Kindle format, and a separate book cover (to be used when you upload the e-book to Apple iTunes and Kindle).
Note: If you need to support older e-book reading devices, ePub (a.k.a epub2) is the appropriate version.
Standard features for ePub format e-books
- Indexed formatting with appropriate linking of TOC (Table of Contents).
- Removal of conventional printed book page numbers, headers and footers.
- Complex data formatting for any type of books including children’s books.
- Images and illustrations can be proportionally resized based on a device’s orientation (portrait vs landscape), magazines and journals.
- Font-embedding support (lets you use your desired typeface).
- Color support.
- Hyperlink support to web pages, journals, articles, bibliographic citations — and to create shortcuts.
- Ability to embed audio and video files.
- Multi-language support (e.g., if you wish to offer the book in more than one language).
ePub3 format:
- All of the above are supported by the ePub format — plus:
- RSS feed (make your e-book a syndication tool for news or blog content too – turn your blog to an e-book)
- Support for vertical, right to left format, e.g., Japanese and Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan.
- Audio, video and interactive support and synchronization includes HTML 5 audio and video tags.
- Synchronizing audio with the text.
- Support for MathML so formulas are displayed as content instead of images.
Amazon Kindle Format conversion (.azw; .kf8, .mobi)
Once your book is in ePub format, a Kindle conversion is just a few steps away. We will convert your book to Kindle format for a mere $15 per title.
ePub Fixed Layout Design
Fixed-layout ePub (landscape view ) is perfect for cookbooks, travel guides, photography books, magazine and also children’s books and storybooks that mainly consist of illustrations.
Unlike text-driven e-book (novels, fiction, etc.), the text in a fixed-layout e-book does not reflow, but can be zoomed in and panned around just like zooming an image from a web page which gives access to the zooming feature. Fixed-layout ePub offers a pixel-specific page size that is used to precisely control the layout on the pages.
Fixed layout also allows font-embedding, desired text sizes, precise positioning of images on the page — or the creating of a two-page (left and right) spread for pages where a single image spans both pages. Fixed layout preserves the printed page layout.