How do I build an e-Book?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hello,

How do I build an e-Book file?

I tried to create one with corona.

But it is an APP with storyboard actually.

What kind of file do I need for iOS and Android e-Books?

How do I build it with corona?

Do I need to know something else for e-Book publishing?

Thanks for reading my post.

#2

I’d do a quick search of the forums for “ebook” … there are a number of options out there, including “Kwik” which is a Photoshop plugin that can create Corona ebooks.

Beyond that, it kinda depends on what you mean by ebook.  Just flipping through pages of static text?  inclusion of animations or videos?  inclusion of in-book games/game-like features?

#3

Thanks for reply.

If I publish an “e-Book” APK.

In google play, it will be in the app category instead of e-Book, right?

What kind of file do iOS and Android need as common, easy e-Books?

#4

A true eBook is published in ePub, HTML or PDF format. You’d need to check the Google Store to see if they will accept an APK as an app or an eBook. I suspect they will not. Amazon, Barnes and Noble and SmashWords don’t like APK’s as eBook submissions.

Kwik, which uses the Corona output for publishing, will only output lua, image, sound and video files to Corona - you don’t get any publishable file structure for an eBook. The Apple store will only accept the output from their proprietary iBook Author program in the section of the store that could pass as eBooks. 

So what you actually are looking for is a way to use Corona to output that ePub or PDF file. Amazon and Smashwords are the two best places to go for the file types and regs governing eBook submission. 

#5

I’d do a quick search of the forums for “ebook” … there are a number of options out there, including “Kwik” which is a Photoshop plugin that can create Corona ebooks.

Beyond that, it kinda depends on what you mean by ebook.  Just flipping through pages of static text?  inclusion of animations or videos?  inclusion of in-book games/game-like features?

#6

Thanks for reply.

If I publish an “e-Book” APK.

In google play, it will be in the app category instead of e-Book, right?

What kind of file do iOS and Android need as common, easy e-Books?

#7

A true eBook is published in ePub, HTML or PDF format. You’d need to check the Google Store to see if they will accept an APK as an app or an eBook. I suspect they will not. Amazon, Barnes and Noble and SmashWords don’t like APK’s as eBook submissions.

Kwik, which uses the Corona output for publishing, will only output lua, image, sound and video files to Corona - you don’t get any publishable file structure for an eBook. The Apple store will only accept the output from their proprietary iBook Author program in the section of the store that could pass as eBooks. 

So what you actually are looking for is a way to use Corona to output that ePub or PDF file. Amazon and Smashwords are the two best places to go for the file types and regs governing eBook submission.