My Second Children's Picture Book Has Been Submitted to Ingramspark

My eBook passing inspection

Today I submittedThe Butterfly Who Airlifted His Friends Over The Wall for publication by Ingramspark. The biggest obstacle with the eBook was getting the it to validate without a TOC (table of contents). I had the TOC configuration set to “None”, but that generated an error. For future reference, the correct setting in InDesign for Table of Contents is “File Name”.

The print book had three errors caused by files that were too hi-res…600dpi. I ran them through Photoshop and reduced them to 300 dpi and the book passed perfectly. Now I’m waiting for the proofs. If everything looks good, the book will be available for sale. Hooray!

This setting prevents a validation error

Well, Almost Finished, Except for Generating An ePub

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Today I decided to create an ePub to go with the print book. Ingramspark charges $49 to publish the print book and the ePub version at the same time. If I were to publish the print book alone, it would cost $49 and then, when I published the eBook, it would be another $25. So why not do it all at once and save a few bucks?

To turn the print book into an ePub, I have to give the ePub its own ISBN and cover page, and that’s it. Another change I want to make is to create a black background — that white space at the top and bottom is really distracting. I think I can add some CSS to make that change. After all, an ePub is just an web page with CSS and images.

More tomorrow…