EPub

EBook "standard" from IDPF

http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm

It's basically a zipped archive that includes XHTML, CSS, image files, and Meta Data.

• if you want to play with one, just
  • make a copy of the '.epub' file
  • change the extension of the copy to '.gz'
  • use your unzipping-tool of choice - you'll get a directory with all the asset files inside.

For my main reading on my Android Tablet I use MoonReader. On my phone and laptop I use FBReader.

Generating EPub

GoogleDocs has a download-as-epub feature! For simple informational docs, that's handy.

Sigil is an Open Source WYSIWYG editor http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

CaLibre generates EPub or Mobi from PDF, RTF, HTML, OpenOffice ODT, etc.

E Cab is free (but not Open Source), generating from HTML or PlainText.

from TEI or DocBook XML

Daisy Pipeline is an Open Source set of tools, but sounds a bit complicated

Help And Manual has an Export feature

Sept'2013: writing/editing in Libre Office then converting with Writer2e Pub plugin.

Jan'2011: Paul Biba summarizes workshop by Joshua Talent.

2010-08-30-PagesToEpub

Info on raw format

http://www.hxa.name/articles/content/epub-guide_hxa7241_2007.html

http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/tutorial.asp