[Editors] ebook formats?

[John Hawkinson]

It is not simple, and there are a huge number of options and rough
edges that you can encounter.

What's the source material like? How was the original book prepared?
Was it done in InDesign, Framemaker, Word, XSL:FO, Pages, LaTeX?
Does it have graphics or other images?
etc. etc.

If you can share a bit more information we can probably give you 
some advice, but it is an immature market with a lot of technology
still developing, so count on getting your hands dirty.

That said, I'm certainly not an expert.

--jhawk at mit.edu
  John Hawkinson
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Eve Sullivan <annals at MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 19 Apr 2011
at 15:56:19 -0400 in <22B136F8-8B0F-416C-BD42-7B2C89491BB0 at mit.edu>:


> What experience if any do you have on preparing an ebook from an  
> existing print book? (one published independently with Lightning  
> Source a POD printed).
> 
> Wikipedia has too much information for me:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
> 
> I hope this is an appropriate question for the editors list. With  
> thanks for any information or advice you can provide by email or phone.