This slideshare presentation is the sequel to "Blog and RSS to iBooks part 1", and continues to explain the process involved in conversion using 3D Issue software in the simplest way possible!

1. Digital Magazine Software
Blog and RSS to iBooks: part 2 of
How to publish your content to iBooks

2. 20 JAN 2012
Following on from the previous blog post How to publish
your content to iBooks…. Part 1: PDF to iBooks there’s
also another great tip we wanted to share with you.
This tutorial shows you
how you can convert your
blog content or RSS feed
content into a epub that
can be read with Apple
iBooks and on eReader
devices such as the
Kindle.

3. Perhaps you have a blog that provides category specific content, these
categories often have their own RSS feeds associated with them.
Take this blog that you are reading now, it has RSS feeds for categories
such as ‘Apple iPad’, ‘Going Digital’, ‘ePublishing’ and many more
such as one RSS feed for the main blog content.
If you have content
online in a blog or RSS
feed then this tip could
be very exciting….

4. Here we are going to take
this Blog and using the tool
PressJack which is packaged
free with 3D Issue we are going
to convert the blog content into
an epub which we can then
read via the iBooks app or even
with our Kindle, then allow our
customers to download and
read on their iPad, iPhones and
eReaders.

5. 1) Select the feed or feeds you want to convert
Open up PressJack which comes packaged along in the 3D Issue suite.
Once here, in the CONTENT tab. Click the ‘+’ sign and enter in the RSS
feed.
TIP:
if you are not sure of
the exact RSS feed
you can click on the
search button and
type in the name of
your blog to find the
feed.

6. 2) Click Build
Still in the CONTENT tab,
click on ‘Build’
this then goes off to the sources you defined in the first part,
the software collects all the content and images from these feed(s).

7. 3) Any edits?
Are there are articles you do not want to include in the epub?
If you do want to remove any,
click on the ARTICLES tab
and edit or remove articles.

8. 4) Complete the build process
To complete the build process and get the output epub file,
head over to the OUTPUT tab.
Check the EBOOK option from the left side and ensure both the epub (iPad
iBooks) and Kindle versions are checked.
Then click PUBLISH on the right.

9. 4) Download to your iPad,
and upload to your site to allow your readers to download

10. Once the software has created the epub and kindle files,
you can access these from the message that appears:

11. Locate the ‘ebook’ folder, you will then see the two files; epub (for
iPad) and mobi (for Kindle).
Open iTunes on your computer, connect your iPad and drag and drop
the epub file from your computer into the ‘Books’ section in iTunes.
You will now see your
publication in iTunes,
and when synced with
your iPad, you can
see the publication in
iBooks:

12. and here is the publication on the iPad available for reading in iBooks:
Try it out for yourself!
Download the 3D Issue trial where you can follow these steps to create your
own book for iBooks from your own Blog or RSS Feeds with PressJack.

13. You can of do this tutorial, upload the file to your site to allow
your readers to download a epub of your blog or RSS feed to
view on their iPad through iBooks –
and remember
Extra because this is in iBooks, the reader does not need
to be online to view once they have downloaded.
Tip:

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