ePub Book Design - Pt 2 from Walt Shiel

read more at: http://waltshiel.com/2010/04/26/epub-book-design-pt-2/ ePub Book Design - Pt 2 Walt Shiel | April 26, 2010 at 7:30 am | Tags: e-books, ePub, publishing, XML | Categories: XML, e-books, ePub, publishing | URL: http://wp.me/peKRL-iu If you already understand what an ePub file is, how it is structured, and what it contains, you can probably skip this post. For everyone else, who thinks an ePub file must be something mysterious and incomprehensible, stick with me. In this post, I will not tell you how to make an ePub. Instead, I'm going to try to explain it at its most basic level. And I'll tell you how to peek inside any non-DRM ePub file to view its structure and contents. If you haven't already heard, I'll tell you a "secret" -- an ePub file is really little more than a website zipped into a single package with the file extension "epub." In fact, you can change that file extension to "zip" and it will open in whatever zip archive software you have installed (WinZip, StuffIt, etc.). However, you can also right-click on it (at least on a PC) and select "Open with >" and then select your zip software, without ever changing the file name from "epub." If you do that, you will see something like this: You can see there are two top-level directories -- META-INF and OPS -- and one data file simply named "mimetype" with no file extension. So what is a mimetype? read more at: http://waltshiel.com/2010/04/26/epub-book-design-pt-2/