Marketing can be fun.

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For the second edition, I found a way to do PDF right.

• ePub Converter

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Planning how to publish a second edition of the book.

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My PDF is kinda held together with Super Glue.

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First attempts to squeeze a PDF out of an ePub.

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The customers are always right. They want a PDF version of the book.

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With the book completed, I now need to fill pre-orders, send out comp copies, and deal with tech support issues.

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More about getting ready to sell books from my Web site.

• FetchApp

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Shall we speak of book marketing?

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OUr long national ePub nightmare is almost over.

• Clockwise Podcast #113

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Chilling in my office, throwing tips and links your way.

• CSS and ePub: A Reading System Perspective
• IDPF’s CSS Property Reference for ePub 3
• MobileRead ePub Structure and CSS
• Sigil User Guide on Style Sheets
• ePub Secrets
• ePub Straight to the Point, by Elizabeth Castro

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Here’s where I begin feeling my way down the darkened tunnel of ePub.

• Periodicalist Podcast
• Proofing ePubs

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Peering into the gaping maw of my Pages-made ePub file.

• TextWrangler

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Today, I assemble the tools I need to go spelunking inside my ePub file. Here are links that were helpful to me. I don’t reference them directly in the show, but they should illuminate the points I made.

• ePub AppleScripts
• Mac OS X Automation’s Text to ePub Services
• Paul Durrant’s ePub Zip/UnZip scripts, linked from a mobile read forum post
• TidBITS

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You can work with, and edit ePub files with free tools like Calibre and Sigil.

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And then I hit Export, and it was all done! No it wasn’t.

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Managing book workflow, and OpenOffice is a good drawing program.

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Coming to you from my iPhone and from my office, I’m here to answer your queries.

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Let’s talk about how I made a chapter in the book much better, after Apple made its operating system somewhat less better.

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Today I’ll tell you about my timeline for publishing the book, and how I dealt with a big setback.

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Today I describe the contents of my book, in outline form, as it was envisioned early in the writing process.

Here’s my process for deciding what would be covered in iOS Access for All.

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I chose to build my ePub book in Pages, which has an ePub export option. Apple provides a template document called ePub Best Practices. You can find it on the Apple support page, Creating ePub Files with Pages.

Format and distribution choices for this book were very important early decisions. Among the most important resources I used to learn about the self-publishing methods and options was Guy Kawasaki’s book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur.

Today, it’s a brief history of tech book publishing, and how it was done.

Today, it’s a brief history of tech book publishing, and how it was done.

In which I introduce myself, and discuss my early days in tech journalism, and book authorship.