Ebooks Training and Tutorials

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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InDesign: Interactive Documents
with Mike Rankin
Adobe InDesign was made for interactive documents. Find out how to use InDesign CC to create a variety of interactive PDFs and EPUBs for web and mobile distribution.

3h 31m Intermediate Oct 26, 2016 Views 119,123
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Learning Metadata for Book Publishing
with 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 Sep 01, 2016 Views 13,529
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InDesign: Publish Online
with 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 Apr 26, 2016 Views 55,260
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InDesign: Creating Animations
with 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 Sep 20, 2017 Views 156,342
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Creating Fixed-Layout Ebooks for the Kindle
with 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 Dec 15, 2015 Views 44,181
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iBooks Author Essential Training
with 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 Aug 23, 2017 Views 773,511
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InDesign: Fixed-Layout EPUB Interactive Techniques & Publish Online
with 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 Dec 08, 2015 Views 49,807
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EPUB: CSS
with 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 Sep 11, 2015 Views 35,460
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Learning InDesign CC 2015: EPUBs
with 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 Jun 29, 2015 Views 194,219
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InDesign: Multistate Objects
with Bob Levine
Learn to use multistate objects to add interactivity to fixed-layout EPUBs and other digital publications.

2h 28m Intermediate May 29, 2015 Views 37,109
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Learning Ebook Publishing
with 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 Mar 18, 2015 Views 157,900
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Creating EPUBs from a Pages Document
with Tony Harmer
Turn your Pages documents into EPUBs that can be read in Apple iBooks, with these tutorials from Tony Harmer.

1h 31m Beginner Jan 05, 2015 Views 21,902
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InDesign CC 2014: Interactive Documents
with Mike Rankin
Find out how to create a variety of interactive documents in InDesign CC, including PDFs, ebooks, magazines, forms, and more.

3h 46m Intermediate Aug 23, 2017 Views 619,971
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Creating EPUBs from a Word Document
with 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 Nov 13, 2014 Views 37,504
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InDesign: Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs
with 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 Oct 14, 2014 Views 126,302
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Adapting a Print Layout for Digital Publishing
with 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 Sep 05, 2014 Views 62,783
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Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
with Anne-Marie Concepción
Shows how to create fixed-width EPUBs to sell in the iBookstore.

3h 17m Intermediate Aug 23, 2017 Views 157,846
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InDesign CC 2014: EPUBs
with 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 Aug 23, 2017 Views 269,913
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Creating Ebooks for the Kindle
with 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 Jun 23, 2014 Views 112,786
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Designing a Book
with 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 May 21, 2013 Views 548,324
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Ebooks: Distributing and Marketing
with 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 May 21, 2013 Views 134,339
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iBooks Author for Teachers: Creating a Math Lesson
with 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 18s Intermediate Mar 21, 2013 Views 20,939
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The Creative Spark: Stacey Williams-Ng, Interactive Book Designer
with 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 Mar 15, 2013 Views 38,068
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iBooks Author for Teachers: Creating a Lab Manual
with Mike Rankin
Learn how to create a lab manual for your students with iBooks Author.

44m 42s Appropriate for all Mar 13, 2013 Views 18,089
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iBooks Author for Teachers: The Basics
with Mike Rankin
Leverage the templates and intuitive toolset in iBooks Author to create custom course material.

2h 37m Appropriate for all Mar 07, 2013 Views 90,012
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Learning iBooks Author
with Joseph "PhotoJoseph" Linaschke
Discover how to create your own ebook and add text, images, galleries, audio, video, and more.

1h 58m Beginner Jul 31, 2012 Views 71,002
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Creating Photography Ebooks
with 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 Sep 20, 2011 Views 31,072
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InDesign CS5.5: EPUB Kindle and iPad
with 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 Jul 28, 2011 Views 261,412
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InDesign CS5: EPUB Kindle and iPad
with 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 Mar 09, 2011 Views 222,008
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InDesign CS4: EPUB Kindle and iPad
with 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 Mar 09, 2011 Views 59,843
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Creating Ebooks with InDesign CS4 or CS5
with 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 Jan 15, 2011 Views 16,890
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Creating Ebooks with InDesign CS5
with Rufus Deuchler
Leverage your existing InDesign knowledge to quickly gain a foothold in the rapidly expanding world of ebooks.

3h 7m Intermediate Jan 13, 2011 Views 42,707

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