Image heavy EPUB
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This is all very new to me and I would love some direction. I’m working on taking an image heavy textbook and turning it into an EPUB. What are the limitations of the reflowable and fixed layout formats? Do you know of any good examples from each? Is there another digital format you might suggest (other than PDF)?
I have published several image-heavy books. Reflowable will cause you endless headaches. At least in my experience a great deal of coding will be required to make it look anywhere reasonable. I just finished converting a print book with 1700 images into a reflowable ePub—no fun. Moreover, if you have an index it’s basically useless in a reflowable epub. Fixed layout epubs will be accepted by some distributors (including the big dog) who won’t accept pdfs. For my money, for anything but phones (typically demands a complete reformat), an interactive pdf is the best solution, albeit it has very limited direct editing capability. For tablets and larger screens I always recommend the pdf to my purchasers. Amazon has a textbook creator that produces their version of a fixed-layout epub from a pdf.
Cheers from someone about to face a winter hurricane.
I just had 5 epubs created in a fixed format with interactive index and hyperlinks. These books had a total of 7800 pictures. They came out great and very reasonably priced, under $1000. The version of InDesign i have is not capable of making ebooks.
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