Epub

ePub is an open ebook standard produced by the International Digital Publishing Forum.

Latex to epub

• http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ebooklatex.html
• Using pandoc

XHTML to epub

• Sigil. Its official website is on sigil-ebook.com. Source code is on github. User Guide or Tutorial is on here.
• An introduction to sigil by the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
• http://www.opensourceforu.com/2011/05/how-to-produce-ebook-in-epub-format/
• http://webdesign.about.com/od/epub/a/build-an-epub.htm

Markdown to epub

• pandoc
• https://puppetlabs.com/blog/automated-ebook-generation-convert-markdown-epub-mobi-pandoc-kindlegen

Some Examples

• The little Redis book and its webpage.

Word to epub

• http://www.wikihow.com/Convert-a-Word-Document-to-Epub

Create epub

• Using Calibre. Calibre also has a cool interface to edit an ebook file.
• Create epub files manually http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/Introduction.shtml.
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/ (no special tools needed)
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/29/how-to-make-an-ebook/
• https://www.epubbooks.com/epub, several books from O'Reilly Media
• LibreOffice
• InDesign software from Adobe
• Pages software from OS X.
• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/EPub

Sigil (open source)

See the above XHTML_to_epub XHTML to epub.

Calibre edit book

Right click an ebook and choose 'Edit book' option. Calibre's interface/functionalities looks like Sigil.

Scriba (open source)

http://scribaebookmake.sourceforge.net/

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition (licensed)

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition: a cross-platform Wysiwyg editor able to natively create and edit EPUB2 and EPUB3 ebooks!