Re: ePub preferred tool

[Suzanne Chiles <suzchiles -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I've been creating EPUB electronic books from DITA content for about six months now and couldnt' be happier. We use oXygen, which has excellent EPUB /DITA support built in. It's proven so popular that our current plans are to provide EPUB ebooks of all our documentation in that format, in addition to our documentation website. 

What's great about the EPUB format is that you can view it just fine, even without an iPad or a Nook. There's a great plug-in to Firefox as well as Adobe Digital Editions for desktop viewing, both free of charge. Kindle doesn't support EPUBS, but the Kindlegen tool will create a MOBI file from an EPUB file quite easily. 

Suzanne


On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Tony Chung wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> You may also be interested the DITA4Publishers project. It includes a
> Word to DITA transform, and a DITA to ePub (and other outputs). This
> would be especially helpful if your company considered authoring in
> DITA eventually.
> 
> http://dita4publishers.sourceforge.net/
> 
> And ePub is the most widely used mobile reader format, readable on
> multiple devices. Apple doesn't own the rights to it, so it's stupid
> for them to force creators to sell books created with iAuthor through
> their own store. It's as if Stanley forced builders who use their
> hammers in construction to send them a cut. Or Yamaha and piano music
> (or mowed lawns).
> 
> -Tony

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