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General Overview of Electronic PublishingWe include the following background summary for visitors who are not familiar with epublishing. Johann Gutenberg's 15th Century invention of the printing press has had a revolutionary effect on how information was compiled and distributed since then. Today, with the world-wide availability of PC's and the magic of the Internet, we are once again facing a new publishing revolution. The arrival of electronic publishing or the electronic book (ebook). The costs involved in conventional publishing methods are extremely high and the percentage of authors whom eventually succeed in having their works published, disproportionately low. The arrival of the ebook has drastically cut the cost of publishing and dramatically increased the number of successfully published authors. The development of inexpensive epublishing software now makes it possible for authors and other writers to self-publish their own work, from home. The skills required are easy to learn and most rewarding. You do all the work… YOU keep MOST of the profits! In what format are ebooks published and distributed?Ebooks are published in a wide variety of formats. The one choice of ebook publishers is the text or Adobe™ PDF format. This form makes your ebook accessible to both PC and Mac users and only accommodates text, clipart and (.jpeg, .gif) graphics. A free ebook reader (Acrobat) is available online. The Adobe™ PDF format is suited to ebooks that contain huge amounts of text. The publishing software is in the upper price range (+/- $250.00). The other option is to publish your ebook as an HTML file. HTML is the computer language used to create Web pages. Formatting your ebook by using HTML allows you to create a multimedia production, with text, animated graphics, colour, photos, audio and video. The HTML files are compiled into an executable (.exe) file that is compatible with the Windows operating system and is viewed with the Internet Explorer browser. Given the versatility of the HTML format and that by far the majority of computers, worldwide, are PC's (exclude Macintosh) operating with Windows, it is easy to understand why this format for the ebook is so popular. The published ebook can be distributed by means of the 1.44MB disk, CD-ROM, via e-mail or as a downloadable file from your website. We will revisit packaging and distribution later on when we deal with the advantages and benefits of epublishing. What types of books are suitable for electronic publishing?The ebook is extremely versatile, so you can publish almost any type of book. However, given the multimedia capabilities of the HTML format, books that include text with fancy fonts, pictures and graphics etc, which can be enhanced with sound are ideal candidates. The following are but a few examples:
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