Comments on: How to do a cover in EPUBs and Digital Editons http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-to-do-a-cover-in-epubs-and-digital-editons/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-to-do-a-cover-in-epubs-and-digital-editons/comment-page-1/#comment-1028280 Michael Pastore Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:11:12 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=19435#comment-1028280 Thank you, Paul, that was useful. And there are other informative links on that site. Following the process described will create a nice cover for Adobe Digital Editions. Question: Will this also be nice-looking cover for other methods of reading ePub: for example: Stanza, BookWorm, Calibre, and so on ? ... After years of waiting for a standard, ePub arrives at last -- thank goodness! ... But it would be unfortunate if we needed create a different book cover size for every different ePub reading system. What is strange about this A.D.E. approach is that the size of your book cover (the aspect ratio) is determined by the thumbnail size: 90 x 130. ... That's not an ugly proportion, but I like more flexibility in my cover design. And the "big" cover is much more important than the miniature one -- so the horse should pull the cart, and not vice versa. Thank you, Paul, that was useful. And there are other informative links on that site.

Following the process described will create a nice cover for Adobe Digital Editions.

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Will this also be nice-looking cover for other methods of reading ePub: for example: Stanza, BookWorm, Calibre, and so on ? …

After years of waiting for a standard, ePub arrives at last — thank goodness! … But it would be unfortunate if we needed create a different book cover size for every different ePub reading system.

What is strange about this A.D.E. approach is that the size of your book cover (the aspect ratio) is determined by the thumbnail size: 90 x 130. … That’s not an ugly proportion, but I like more flexibility in my cover design.

And the “big” cover is much more important than the miniature one — so the horse should pull the cart, and not vice versa.

]]> By: Hadrien Gardeur http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-to-do-a-cover-in-epubs-and-digital-editons/comment-page-1/#comment-1028242 Hadrien Gardeur Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:12:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=19435#comment-1028242 Take a look at their best practices guide then Joseph, they provide an example with SVG. I still find this whole process very complex: defining the cover properly in the metadata would help reading systems and content providers. Take a look at their best practices guide then Joseph, they provide an example with SVG.

I still find this whole process very complex: defining the cover properly in the metadata would help reading systems and content providers.

]]> By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-to-do-a-cover-in-epubs-and-digital-editons/comment-page-1/#comment-1028212 Joseph Gray Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:52:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=19435#comment-1028212 The article mentions SVG in passing. I hope they do a follow-on article about using SVG for covers. Using a bitmapped image is always a compromise, as you never know what size screen it will be viewed on. The article mentions SVG in passing. I hope they do a follow-on article about using SVG for covers. Using a bitmapped image is always a compromise, as you never know what size screen it will be viewed on.

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