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

PDF to epub

• Possibility 1: PDF to word to epub? But there is no way to convert pdf to word or open pdf in MS-Word.
• Possibility 2: PDF to html to epub. Use pdftohtml program. The syntax is pdftohtml -c MyDocument.pdf where '-c' is to include graphics. Another one is called pdf2htmlEX.

Directly download epub file

For example the article Dispersion estimation and its effect on test performance in RNA-seq data analysis: a simulation-based comparison of methods can be accessed from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. It also provides a link to

• Go to the original journal website
• View the article like an ereader (called PubReader format) on web browser. From there, we can also view the article as
  • A classic view with an address from PubMed Central® (PMC).
  • Download it as an ePub (beta).
  • view a pdf version of the article.

Create epub

• Instructions on the creation of an ePUB with Calibre. Calibre also has a cool interface to edit an ebook. It also has a list of ebook creation tutorials on its web site.
• 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

Calibre edit book (open source)

• Right click an ebook and choose Edit book option to let you edit HTML, CSS and images in ePub and AZW3 books; this is a killer feature. Error checking, table of contents, merging, splitting, bulk renaming and so on. For details, see Calibre edit manual.
• Click 'edit metadata' also works like a charm.
• We can also save the modified ebook back to disk for future use.

Sigil (open source)

See the above XHTML_to_epub XHTML to epub. Have not tried it yet. It looks like it is very similar to Calibre except it has a mysterious home page.

Scriba (open source)

http://scribaebookmake.sourceforge.net/

Scrivener (licensed $40 for Windows | Mac)

• Creating an ebook using Scrivener
• It has a beta version for Linux distribution. See forum and an introduction from omgubuntu.co.uk.
• https://www.literatureandlatte.com/video.php

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition (licensed)

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