As the beautiful full-page iPad ads continue to spread over the countryside, more and more people get accustomed to the idea of reading on tablets, phones, screens of all kinds. More and more it feels like the pace of the transition to digital books has picked up. Although a lot of the formatting will be lost in the conversion to epub, it will be maintained in the “original” book.īut I really started to wonder how long we’ll be referring to the print books as the “originals” or the “best edition” in the language of the Copyright Office. I assured the author I was talking to that it would be best to do the print book first if he had any plans to publish at all. More and more programs will likely come with the epub export option, and why not? It is the typesetting of the future. Over at Foodsville, Hewlett-Packard is showing one example of their new BookPrep system, which pretty much allows you to scan old books directly to ePub files, suitable for … well, you know. This week I received the first inquiry from a prospective self-publisher about whether it was still necessary to get the print book ready at all. Even in my own design practice, every author now wants to include ebook conversions in their project right from the start. The demand from publishers of all sizes has increased exponentially over just the last four months. Increased support for ePub conversion is also built into the new Adobe InDesign CS5, and you can see why. You can create a book, add a cover, and upload it to your own iPad to sit on the iBook shelf alongside all your favorite authors. Here Comes the DIY OptionĪccording to an article by Dan Moren in Macworld the Storyist software-an intriguing hybrid word processor specifically designed to format and organize writing projects of all kinds-will now come with a direct to ePub export feature. Many of the ads for content creators mention “over 300,000 iPads sold” and the expectation that Apple may sell as many as 3-5 million iPads this year alone. I haven’t explored these companies in detail, but I think it’s fascinating how many options are starting to open up with the rapid sales of the iPad. Perseus is ” … the largest distributor of independent publishers in North America, with more than 300 publisher clients.” Their focus is on independent publishers, and providing complete, end-to-end services not just for iPad but-ambitiously-for all types of digital distribution. They announce no fees up front, and a “transparent” pricing model.Ĭonstellation, from Perseus Books, is another Apple Approved EBook Aggregator. LibreDigital, on the other hand, seems to have the opposite model. LibreDigital ” … has already delivered thousands of e-books to the iBookstore on behalf of some of the largest book publishers in the world.”īibliocore also states they take no commission on sales, that you will receive 100% of payments from Apple. We believe that all writers, artists and musicians should have equal access to the channels of distribution without having to give up rights or revenue.” Both Libre Digital and Bibliocore will take your information and have someone get in touch with you if you want to talkīibliocore, “… was launched by the same team that created TuneCore, the largest distributor of music, artists and labels in the world. Some of Apple’s approved content aggregators have also put out mechanisms for making contact with content creators and rights holders. A few weeks ago Smashwords made it possible to get self-published books into Apple’s iBookstore for sale on the iPad, and from what I read there are already several thousand Smashwords titles in the iBookstore.
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