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Ebooks have made a major leap in quality

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On-Demand BooksFor example, I got this official word today:

“Yes, Kobo now accepts FXL EPUBs exported from InDesign and they can be put on sale, they have confirmed the same. The FXL EPUB output from ID also renders correctly on a Kobo device.”

Now that is certainly good news which is to be added with the existing iBooks acceptance of ePUB3 books. But the real change has happened more subtly.

All distributors now accept ebooks with embedded fonts

I still have not had any success with direct uploads to NookPress or Kobo Writing Life (though they do take FXL books fine). However, Draft2Digital can handle the files fine and get them uploaded, accepted, and approved by their five distributors: Nook, iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, and a German distributor.

Kindle, on the other hand has many issues. I still must IDML back to InDesign CS6. Tables remain a mess and all graphics need to be converted to inline objects. Anchoring still does not work with them through KDP.

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Ebooks have made a major leap in quality — 2 Comments

  1. David,

    Does this mean an InDesigner can complete a simple process to turn his files into an EPUB, or is it still a major transformation task?
    I am going to have to retrain myself in InDesign in a few months because I have basically forgotten most of it.
    Of particular importance pertaining to your trade paperback book, explain precisely how to set up pages and margins with headers and page numbers. I still do not know how I learned how to do it–unless you told me.
    Chris

  2. it’s a reasonably simple process. All styls must be converted to fonts you have ebook licenses for. The entire book has to be converted to one long story. All graphic must be converted to above line anchored graphics.

    But if you set up the print book correctly, much of that has already been done.

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