Publishing on Ebooks

April 14, 2013
Thought I will keep some directions on desktop publishing. The most widely used format is PDF (portable document format). It is versatile and maintains a structured and consistent layout to the contents.

The other format that is now open is EPUB format. Currently its on 3.0 and now a widely supported open format for digital books using xml. If you are a publisher, so is interested in self publishing, the following opensource tools might help:

  • https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
  • http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
  • http://calibre-ebook.com/