How to Create an Electronic Book

"Creating an electronic book is an easy way to publish your manuscript or share it with colleagues. Two of the most common and easiest formats to make are PDF and EPUB. You can create these forms with open source or free packages, which will not put a dent in your budget."


http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7237585_create-electronic-book.html

How to Make an eBook Anyone Can Read with ePub

"Many new authors might make the mistake of thinking that if they have a portable document format (PDF) of their book it means that it can be read on an e-reader or other mobile device. While in many cases the PDF can be opened, the text is far too small because it is a static or unchangeable image. ePub makes it so your text is resized to fit the screen of any given device. Since the text in ePub format can be changed in terms of size, font and color, reading an ePub book becomes a much more personal experience for the reader. Sounds great right? But how do you make an ePub book? "

http://www.lulu.com/blog/2010/03/12/how-to-make-an-ebook-anyone-can-read/

Dummies guide to publishing an ebook on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords

"In this blog post I’m going to try and demystify the ebook publishing process. I’ve been through it and lived to tell the tale. So here goes. Stand by for a fun ride. It’ll be worth the trials and tribulations along the way!"

Tutorial here:

http://www.sellingbooks.com/dummies-guide-to-publishing-an-ebook-on-amazon-kindle-barnes-and-noble-and-smashwords/

Convert to EPUB

"You can convert virtually any text containing document to EPUB format, which is the preferred format for reading on many ebook readers, including the Barnes & Noble Nook, Android, and the Apple iOS iBooks platform that runs on iPhone and iPad (note that the Amazon Kindle currently favors .mobi format which Calibre can also publish to). Here are the exact steps to convert a file to EPUB."

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/12/convert-to-epub/

Creating epub files - With nothing but free tools

"For all I know, other commercial tools can create them by now, but more importantly, you can easily create epub eBooks with free software if you don't need commercial tools to create some XML files (mostly XHTML) and zip them up together. I certainly don't. "


http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/03/creating-epub-files.html

MobileRead Forums

"MobileRead Forums is an online community dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information relating to all aspects of the Mobile Internet boom. Our goal is to become the leading resource for mobile geeks seeking information and advice for keeping their gadgets happy. Because when they're happy, you're happy too."


http://www.mobileread.com/forums/

Bookglutton - convert HTML to EPUB

"BookGlutton has the only Web-only book publishing platform. Using the Epub book format, you can upload, set your price, and track your sales. Your readers are part of your publishing network, and we enable direct lines of communication between reading groups and you. It's not for everyone in publishing, but it's for the forward-thinking ones."

https://www.bookglutton.com/api/convert.html

Creating eBooks: An ePub Tutorial

"At the moment, whenever I create a Mobipocket book for the Kindle, I start off with creating the ePub version, because things are a bit cleaner that way. "

Tutorial here:

http://www.spontaneousderivation.com/2008/12/13/creating-ebooks-an-epub-tutorial/

Converting ODT to ePub

"With ODFToEPub everyone can write an e-book with full control over how it will look. All you need is a word processor that can produce a document in a format suitable for OpenOffice.org. That is, of course, OpenOffice.org itself, but also Microsoft Word, iWork, WordPerfect, Zoho, Google Docs, etc. In OpenOffice.org you choose the export function to convert an ODT-file to ePub.

With this tool self publishers have immediate feedback about how their e-book will look like. Publishers can give their authors a standard template and build the tool into their systems in order to streamline their ePub production process. Companies can cut down printing by publishing their internal documents as e-books."

http://www.pincette.biz/odftoepub/index.xhtml

Convert Word to EPUB

"If you have an eBook in the Microsoft Word format, it is fairly straightforward to convert it into the EPUB format. First, use one of the following word processors to open your Word document (.doc) and save it as an HTML document (any file name)."

http://www.web-books.com/Publishing/Word2EPUB.htm

.epub eBooks Tutorial - Part 2 - How to Make an ePub eBook by Hand

"ePub (also know by: EPUB, .epub, or other variations on capitalization) is a free and open standard for for eBooks (electronic books) maintained by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The ePub file format was designed to be open (anyone can use it or create it) and re-flowable (the text can be re-sized and re-arranged to suite whatever display it's being read on). Ideally, it will catch on as the standard for ebooks. "

http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/tutorial.asp

"[...] this page is about making ePub files by hand. When the format first came out, there weren't any tools to make ePub files, so this was the only way to go. Now there are several (see the section above for reviews of some of them) and there really isn't a need to do this the hard way anymore. Nevertheless, I feel it's beneficial to know the guts of something, whether it's to fix a weird error, or to know what that program is really doing."

.epub eBooks Tutorial - Part 1 - Formatting Your Source Content

"Why am I talking about source documents? Because the end result--your book-- is only going to look as good as the code that goes into it. When I first created the ePub tutorial, I skimmed over creating the source document and just talked about the ePub format. After making and editing several ePubs for my own use, I have seen more and more that the HTML you start with determine how nice the final book looks. "

http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/formatsource.asp

eBook Self-Publishing: A Simple Guideline and Some Tips on Taking Those First Steps

"2. Study the style books for each style and format for each retailer you are publishing with. The more complex your ebook, the more you need to study the style sheets. TIP: Do this in advance before finalizing your content for each format. It will save you a lot of time in the long run"

http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/blog/2011/06/16/ebook-self-publishing-a-simple-guideline-and-some-tips-on-taking-those-first-steps/