Welcome to ePub in the Classroom

The ePub format has become an industry standard for ebooks.  You can easily create ePub books with your students or you can create units and entire textbooks for use with your courses.  These resources will help you formulate your ePub format resources.

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Copyright and Fair Use

Creating ebooks:

     PowerPoint from the presentation Creating ePub Books.pptx 

• Download and use iBooks Author app for the macbook!  http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/  Apple makes the process even easier.  You do have to have the LION operating system loaded first before you can begin your work with the iBooks Author app.  
• iBooks Author for Dummies help sheet   iBooks Widget Creation  iBooks Author Tutorials
• Anyone can EPUBlish help sheet 
• Apple's iWork: Pages (supports multi-media when viewed in iBooks app) -- see "Creating ePub files with Pages" from Apple and this step-by-step tutorial
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4168 
• Step-by-step instructions:  http://www6.district125.k12.il.us/staffdev/tutorial/Using_Pages_to_Create_ePub_Files.pdf
  
• Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
• My eBook Maker Chrome App:  http://myebookmaker.com/ 
• Create ePub from any webpage: http://dotepub.com
• Clean-up your page before conversion with this tool
• Print What You Like:  http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/ 
• Readability:  http://www.readability.com/ 
• Adobe InDesign: Create ePub eBooks
• Create ePubs (supports multi-media) and/or publish your own eBooks with ePubBud, $5 per ISBN 
• Create ePub files from PDFs and other doc types "while you wait" 2ePub.com (free online converter)
• ePub Bud http://www.epubbud.com/ 
• From Helen Lazzaro: http://2epub.wikispaces.com
• From Lexcyle.com, Stanza Desktop
• From Google, a WYSIWYG ePub editor: Sigil
• Templates for ePub: ePub Best Practices for Pages updated word.doc ePub Best Practices for Pages updated.pages
• Collaborative Classroom eBook on Ipad:  http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/11/05/collaborative-classroom-ebook-on-the-ipad-download/ 
• Creating epubs with PowerPoint (or other presentation software)  ppt-ebook-template.ppt  Creating eBooks with PowerPoint.pdf
• Delicious bookmarks http://delicious.com/kschroed/ebooks?sort=alpha  http://delicious.com/kschroed/opensourcetextbook?sort=alpha 
• Other ebook reader formats (scroll down on the page to see the formats)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers 
• Google Chrome Plugins:  dotEPUB converts any webpage to an epub  and  MagicScroll eBook Reader allows you to read epub books in chrome.
• Wesley Fryer's resources for creating multimedia eBooks  http://goo.gl/2YqFA

Converting Files

• Quick Thumbnail - easily resize photos:  http://quickthumbnail.com/ 
• Online Converter - online convert:  http://www.online-convert.com/
• Zamzar file converter:  http://zamzar.com/
• HamsterSoft video converter:  http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com/en/ 
• Downloading video files from the internet:  http://keepvid.com/
• Convert website to epub:  http://dotepub.com/  http://web2fb2.net/
• PDF to epub: http://epub2go.com/Web/default.aspx
• WORD to clean html:  http://word2cleanhtml.com/
• html to ePub conversion:  https://www.bookglutton.com/api/convert.html
• 2epub online tool to combine various file formats into an ePub:  http://www.2epub.com/
• Any Video Converter Lite free converter for the mac 
• Readability - strips content off of the website to just the article:  http://www.readability.com/
• Print What You Like - also allows you to only include exactly what you want from a webpage:  http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/

Finding ebooks:

• What?  No Textbook Resource Page
• BooksOnBoard: http://booksonboard.com
• ePubBooks: http://www.epubbooks.com/
• CK12 Flexbooks:  http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
• eBooks.com: http://ebooks.com/
• Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com
• Gutenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org
• ManyBooks: http://manybooks.net
• MyMediaMall: http://www.mymediamall.net
• Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com
• Snee: http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/
• Reading ePubs (non-Amazon): http://www.epubbooks.com/ebook-readers

Read ePub files without an eReading device?

• Download Adobe's free Digital Editions software -- unfortunately there is no multi-media support.
• Firefox has a plugin (select "Add-ons" from the Tools menu) http://www.epubread.com/en/ that will read ePub files in the browser -- no multi-media support.
• Google Chrome has a plugin also in the Google Chrome store here:  Chrome MagicScroll eBook Reader 
• Create an account to upload and read ePub files on ePubBud.com -- supports embedded multi-media when viewed using Google's Chrome browser. 
• Create an account to upload and read ePub files on bookworm.oreilly.com -- also supports embedded files using Chrome.

iPad Apps for Book Creation

• eBook Magic
• Book Creator
• ePub Creator
•  Book Creator for iPad
• Creative Book Builder
• Demibooks Composer 
• StoryRobe
• Storybook Creator
• Scribble Press

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This page was last updated on 01/10/16

 

Keith D. Schroeder

http://keithschroeder.net