The e-book market is booming and the number of devices that can read e-books is growing fast. This Book Industry Study Group (BISG) Webcast addressed what formatting works and what doesn't on different platforms, with specific suggestions for making your e-books look great no matter where your consumers read them.
1. Practical E-Book Formatting:
Limitations and Optimizations
This BISG WEBCAST took place
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern
To register for future BISG Webcasts, please visit:
http://www.bisg.org/event-cat-6-webcasts.php
Presented by:
2. Who you’ll be hearing from…
ANGELA BOLE
Deputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group,
Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association
working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry
supply chain for both digital and physical products.
JOSHUA TALLENT
eBook Architects
Joshua Tallent has been an e-book developer for 7 years, and is an expert on
formatting e-books in the variety of formats on the market, including
Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub. His book, Kindle Formatting: The Complete
Guide, has been praised as the most helpful and thorough explanation of the
detailed process involved in formatting great-looking e-books for the Amazon
Kindle. eBook Architects, his e-book conversion and consulting business,
provides services to the breadth of the publishing industry, from big
companies, to small publishers and individual authors.
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3. Purpose of today’s Webcast…
To give an overview of
eBook formatting on the
most popular devices and
eBookArchitects.com/resources.php applications, and to give
tips on the creation of
beautiful
cross-platform eBooks.
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4. BISG’s Mission Statement
“Working to create a more
informed, empowered and efficient
book industry supply chain
for both physical and digital products.”
www.bisg.org
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