Book Review: Design and Upload Your ePub by Cheri Lasota

Title: Design and Upload Your ePub: The Steps to Your Success
Author: Cheri Lasota
Publisher: Ever-Sea Press (July 27, 2013)
Genre: Non-fiction

Format Read: Ebook
Length: Short Non-fiction Book
Source: Purchased from Amazon

This guide will cover several types of e-book design software and help you navigate the upload process for all the major vendor sites: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iBooks.

In addition, learn basic and more advanced coding and design techniques to make your novel unique, interactive, and beautiful. We'll cover e-book format conversion, epub validation, coding for interactive elements, and much more.

Review: From beginner to pro, anyone can pick up a formatting tip from Cheri Lasota’s Design and Upload Your ePub: The Steps to Your Success.

In a clear and well-formatted design, Cheri Lasota takes the reader through the steps and tricks of creating an ebook as well as self-publishing it on the major vendor sites. Having formatted ebooks for a while, I learned some new tricks to make better quality formatted ebooks, including the use of styles in Word as well as software called Jutoh for compiling an ePub. Lasota even goes through some of the complicated steps of using Adobe’s InDesign program to create an ePub.

I highly recommend Design and Upload Your ePub by Cheri Lasota to anyone starting formatting or wishing to take their formatting to another level.

Five Bookworms = I loved it!

Hook Me: Design and Upload Your ePub by Cheri Lasota

Title: Design and Upload Your ePub: The Steps to Your Success
Author: Cheri Lasota
Publisher: Ever-Sea Press (July 27, 2013)
Genre: Non-Fiction

Book Description: This guide will cover several types of e-book design software and help you navigate the upload process for all the major vendor sites: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iBooks.

In addition, learn basic and more advanced coding and design techniques to make your novel unique, interactive, and beautiful. We'll cover e-book format conversion, epub validation, coding for interactive elements, and much more.

First line: E-book design can be as simple as converting a simple manuscript with one paragraph style and one header style to a fully immersive, interactive experience.
Last line read: It may seem like an extra step you don't have time for, but I've seen readers complain about the lack of a navigable TOC in their book reviews.

Overall Impression: Cheri Lasota knows her stuff when it comes to e-book formatting and design. Her own design for the book is well-laid out, and I think even someone who knows a thing or two about formatting would learn something as well as beginners. The text is pretty heavy on the lingo, so if you are a true beginner and know very few computer savvy terms, then you might want to read up on such things first.

Would I keep reading?: Yes!