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Old 08-27-2010, 10:33 AM   #1
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Apple adds eBook publishing to iWork with 9.0.4 update
Apple adds eBook publishing to iWork with 9.0.4 update

I'm downloading the update now and will do some tire-kicking...
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Old 08-27-2010, 10:37 AM   #2
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Is this purely a Mac thing?
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Yes, iWork is mac only (it is a productivity suite with some degree of Word/Excel/PowerPoint functionality). Publishing to iBookstore also requires a mac. eBooks published with DRM there can only be read on iOS devices. What a strange ebook ecosystem...

Be that as it may, here's a link to their "ePub best practices" document:

ePub Best Practices
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Yes, iWork is mac only (it is a productivity suite with some degree of Word/Excel/PowerPoint functionality). Publishing to iBookstore also requires a mac. eBooks published with DRM there can only be read on iOS devices. What a strange ebook ecosystem...
Thank you. Not being a Mac person I wasn't familiar with the name.
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When will MS Word do?
I think there are plugins for Word that add epub export. Also OpenOffice has ePub export. So in theory you could open a MS Word document with OO and then export.

None of these exports are likely to create content that is 'press ready' (so to speak). For publication, at most it is a starting point, then you need to get in and edit XHTML directly (and probably wish you had done it all in XHTML to begin with...). But they are probably okay if you just want to convert personal documents to a reflowable format so you can read them more easily on a smartphone or ereader.
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