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Design and publish ebooks, and transition your workflow from print to digital publications. Our video tutorials cover a wide range of digital publishing concepts, ebook software, and design applications including InDesign and iBooks Author. Learn how to create an interactive PDF, use iPad in a classroom setting, and much more.

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Ebook Publishing Fundamentals
Jason Matthews

2h 44m 115,893 Views
Developing Multistate Objects in InDesign
Bob Levine

2h 28m 28,132 Views
Creating EPUBs from a Pages Document
Tony Harmer

1h 31m 18,538 Views
Learning Metadata for Book Publishing
Joshua Tallent

1h 30m 1,805 Views
Publish Online with InDesign
Diane Burns

1h 2m 28,527 Views
Creating Ebooks for the Kindle
Tony Harmer

2h 13m 86,555 Views
iBooks Author Essential Training
Chris Mattia

6h 55m 716,318 Views
iBooks Author for Teachers: Creating a Math Lesson
Mike Rankin

54m 22s 19,201 Views

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31 Ebooks Courses • 1224 video tutorials

Learning Metadata for Book Publishing
Joshua Tallent
Publishers and ebook authors: Learn how to create high-quality metadata to help make your books and EPUBs more discoverable online.

1h 30m Beginner 1,805 Views
Publish Online with InDesign
Diane Burns
Learn how to publish interactive documents to the web with Publish Online, a great new sharing feature built into InDesign CC.

1h 2m Beginner 28,527 Views
Creating Animations with Adobe InDesign CC
Diane Burns
Get a complete guide to using InDesign's powerful animation features. Watch and learn how to animate logos, ads, and even books in fixed layout EPUB format.

5h 3m Intermediate 97,029 Views
Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks for the Kindle
Kevin Callahan
Create a fixed-layout ebook that's beautiful, well crafted, and enjoyable to read on a Kindle. Learn how to use InDesign to adapt a print design or create a Kindle ebook from scratch.

2h 29m Intermediate 24,429 Views
iBooks Author Essential Training
Chris Mattia
Learn how to create your own ebooks with iBooks Author. Find out how to import text from Word or InDesign, add images and interactive widgets, include links and bookmarks, and export your book for publication as an EPUB or PDF.

6h 55m Appropriate for all 716,318 Views
InDesign: Fixed-Layout EPUB Interactive Techniques & Publish Online
Keith Gilbert
Enhance fixed-layout EPUB and Publish Online documents with interactive features such as buttons, slideshows, quizzes, and video using InDesign CC.

1h 41m Intermediate 28,583 Views
CSS for EPUB
Tony Harmer
CSS is the best and most flexible way to visually present ebooks. Learn how to style your EPUBs—including text, graphics, and background elements—exactly as you want with CSS.

3h 4m Intermediate 23,258 Views
InDesign CC 2015: EPUB Fundamentals
Anne-Marie Concepción
Learn how to create an ebook with InDesign CC 2015. Take your existing assets and turn them into feature-rich EPUBs that can be read on devices like the Kindle, Kobo, iPad, and NOOK.

4h 20m Beginner 134,626 Views
Developing Multistate Objects in InDesign
Bob Levine
Learn to use multistate objects to add interactivity to fixed-layout EPUBs and other digital publications.

2h 28m Intermediate 28,132 Views
Ebook Publishing Fundamentals
Jason Matthews
Learn how to successfully self-publish: learn to create ebooks, upload them to major retailers like Amazon, and market them on social media and other websites.

2h 44m Beginner 115,893 Views
Creating EPUBs from a Pages Document
Tony Harmer
Turn your Pages documents into EPUBs that can be read in Apple iBooks, with these tutorials from Tony Harmer.

1h 31m Beginner 18,538 Views
InDesign CC: Interactive Document Fundamentals
Mike Rankin
Find out how to create a variety of interactive documents in InDesign CC, including PDFs, ebooks, magazines, forms, and more.

3h 47m Intermediate 578,328 Views
Creating EPUBs from a Word Document
Tony Harmer
Turn your Word document into richly formatted HTML, which can then be converted into an EPUB and a variety of other ereader-friendly formats.

1h 28m Beginner 30,187 Views
Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs with InDesign CC
Anne-Marie Concepción
Learn to create interactive fixed-layout EPUBs in InDesign CC, and preserve your design's integrity across multiple browsers and ereaders.

3h 36m Beginner 104,859 Views
Adapting a Print Layout for Digital Publishing
Mike Rankin
Learn how to convert documents and files originally intended for print into optimized digital formats such as EPUB, interactive PDF, HTML, or a Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) file.

2h 2m Beginner 51,806 Views
Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
Anne-Marie Concepción
Shows how to create fixed-width EPUBs to sell in the iBookstore.

3h 18m Intermediate 149,199 Views
InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals
Anne-Marie Concepción
Take any InDesign file and turn it into an EPUB that can be read on multiple devices, like the Kindle, Kobo, iPad, and Nook.

4h 50m Beginner 242,063 Views
Creating Ebooks for the Kindle
Tony Harmer
Take an existing ebook from Word, Pages, InDesign, or even a plain text editor, and convert it to a Kindle format.

2h 13m Beginner 86,555 Views
Designing a Book
Nigel French
Explore the components of an elegant and readable book design, and the setup and strategy for designing a book in Adobe InDesign.

4h 13m Intermediate 468,020 Views
Distributing and Marketing Ebooks
David Wogahn
Learn about ebook trends and tools; book distribution and marketing resources; and publishing fundamentals that will help your ebook compete with the professionals.

3h 16m Intermediate 115,650 Views
iBooks Author for Teachers: Creating a Math Lesson
Mike Rankin
Learn how to create a full-length, interactive math lesson with a glossary, equations, illustrative charts and graphs, and a section that tests your students on what they've learned.

54m 22s Intermediate 19,201 Views
The Creative Spark: Stacey Williams-Ng, Interactive Book Designer
Stacey Williams-Ng
Join Stacey Williams-Ng, an interactive book designer, at her home studio in Milwaukee where she's animating her latest book, A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys, destined for the iPad.

28m 31s Appropriate for all 36,264 Views
iBooks Author for Teachers: Creating a Lab Manual
Mike Rankin
Learn how to create a lab manual for your students with iBooks Author.

44m 46s Appropriate for all 16,712 Views
iBooks Author for Teachers: Fundamentals
Mike Rankin
Leverage the templates and intuitive toolset in iBooks Author to create custom course material.

2h 37m Appropriate for all 84,544 Views
Up and Running with iBooks Author
Joseph "PhotoJoseph" Linaschke
Discover how to create your own ebook and add text, images, galleries, audio, video, and more.

1h 58m Beginner 66,467 Views
Creating Photography Ebooks
Mikkel Aaland
Find out how to select, organize, and process your images with the EPUB format in mind, lay out and design your book, and prepare it for the appropriate ebook format.

2h 15m Beginner 27,500 Views
InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad
Anne-Marie Concepción
Shows publishers, designers, and production staff how to use the software they already use to create print books—InDesign—for the emerging ebook market.

5h 56m Intermediate 256,867 Views
InDesign CS5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad
Anne-Marie Concepción
Shows publishers and designers how to use the software they already use to create print books and apply it to the emerging ebook market.

5h 31m Intermediate 219,026 Views
InDesign CS4 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad
Anne-Marie Concepción
Shows publishers and designers how to use the software they already use to create print books and apply it to the emerging ebook market.

4h 48m Intermediate 58,908 Views
Creating Ebooks with InDesign CS4 or CS5
Gabriel Powell
Takes you through every step in the process of creating an ebook, from setting up the InDesign document to exporting an EPUB file that can be read on a computer, smartphone, Apple iPad, or Sony Reader.

5h 47m Intermediate 14,485 Views
Creating Ebooks with InDesign CS5
Rufus Deuchler
Leverage your existing InDesign knowledge to quickly gain a foothold in the rapidly expanding world of ebooks.

3h 7m Intermediate 36,138 Views

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