How we created Ebook versions of the STC Carolina Communique, presentation given at Speedcon Unconference (Oct 29, 2011)

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Creating an .epub Ebook... for free
How we created Ebook versions of the STC
Carolina Communiqué
By Rick Sapir
Speedcon Unconference
October 29, 2011

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Carolina Communiqué
 Quarterly newsletter of STC Carolina
 Created online with wiki-based CMS (Tiki)
 Introduced Ebook version in 2011
http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org

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Ebook Formats
 Epub
 Kindle

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Tools
 Generated HTML
 Sigil epub editor
 Calbire Ebook manager
 .epub Validator (from Three Press)
 Amazon Kindle previewer

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The Process
 Publish online issue.
 Generate a single HTML of all articles.
 Import HTML into Sigil.
Additional CSS – Images
Page breaks – Additional cleanup
 Add metadata with Calibre.
 Validate the .epub file.
 Convert to Kindle .mobi format.
 Publish Ebook versions.

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Demo

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Q & A

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Resources
 Amazon Kindle Previewer (http://kdp.amazon.com
 Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/)
 Carolina Communqiué (http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org)
 Rick Sapir (http://ricksapir.com)
 Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/)
 STC Carolina (http://stc-carolina.org)
 Three Press Validator (http://threepress.org/document/epub-validate)
 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (http://tiki.org)