Editing Ebooks

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Free Online Course: Editing Ebooks provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Editing Ebooks is taught by Laura Brady.

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1-2 hours worth of material

20th, Sep 2019

After layout, learn how to edit, validate, and polish the HTML, CSS, or other components of your electronic book before publication.

The independent ebook market is growing, and in this course youâll explore the steps to editing the components of an ebook file with a view to publishing an EPUB (electronic publication) or MOBI (Mobipocket), formats supported by many ereaders and compatible apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers. The course begins with an exploration of EPUB structure and delves into the basics of HTML and CSS for editing EPUB files. Instructor Laura Brady then dives deeply into the tools and techniques for editing, validating, and repacking an EPUB file.

Syllabus

Introduction
- Introduction to editing EPUBs
- What you need to know
1. Understanding the Basics
- EPUB structure: What's required and what isn't
- The OPF file
- Brief principles of HTML and CSS
- Tour of available tools: oXygen
- Tour of available tools: Sigil
- Tour of available tools: Other text editors
2. Getting Started
- Opening an EPUB and extracting the pieces
- Demo of the live validation tools in oXygen
- Editing HTML
- Editing CSS
- Editing the OPF
- Editing the NCX
- Editing the
3. The Finishing Touches and QA
- Adding semantic information
- Running regex searches
- Using validation tools
- Final editing touches
Conclusion
- Final thoughts

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Language

English
Certificate
Certificate Available
Date of Start
20th September, 2019
Price
Free Trial Available
Provider
LinkedIn Learning
Taught By

Laura Brady
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