Ebook production expert Laura Brady suggests ways you need to think about ebook design and creation to produce reliable and good-looking results

This podcast is for anyone who is thinking of creating ebooks or hiring an ebook designer, or who has seen the ads for “ebooks made easy!” and is thinking, well, how hard could it be? Topics include:

Links mentioned in the podcast

https://twitter.com/hashtag/eprdctn: a very active Twitter group where you can find professionals and experts in ebook production

https://github.com/FriendsOfEpub/Blitz: for the technically competent, ebook formatting solutions

https://fonts.google.com/: Google’s webfont repository

https://www.monotype.com/: the Monotype font foundy

https://reedsy.com/: “A full ecosystem for authors and publishing professionals”

Sorry for some of the audio quality in the early minutes of the interview!

Laura Brady is the manager of Cross-Media for the House of Anansi Press in Toronto. Until recently she ran a conversion house working with a broad range of small- and medium-sized publishers to manage their digital publishing. Laura is also on the steering committee of ebookcraft – a major conference devoted to ebook production -- and the editor-in-chief of EPUB Secrets—the world’s best resource for all things EPUB. Her Twitter handle is @LauraB7.

Peter Goodman (host) is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California. He began his publishing career in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. A longtime member of IBPA, he has served on the IBPA board and as IBPA board chair.