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suret-canale michel
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August 22, 2023
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Comment publier un livre au format epub ou ebook sur internet ?

  • August 22, 2023
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Bonjour ! J'ai un livre de plus de 400 pages, son auteur voudrait le diffuser gratuitement sur son site internet, j'ai le fichier finalisé au format indesign , au format pdf, au format ebook mais je cale pour mettre en ligne 

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    Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

    You may be able to reduce the PDF file size with careful selection of the export settings. For one thing, more than 150ppi for the images is probably wasted.

     

    But PDF would again be the superior format, as it is almost universally accessible, easy to produce and update, and can be read on the web with partial/streaming download, making the overall size irrelevant.

     

    All things considered, a book can be made about the same size in EPUB and PDF, so that aspect is unimportant. But an EPUB must be fully downloaded to read, and is highly dependent on the reader app or program used. Unless EPUB has some specific advantage for you or your audience, I suggest you stay with PDF optimized for web distribution and viewing.

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    Randy Hagan
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    Randy HaganCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 22, 2023

    I think I understand your request.

     

    For overall compatibility, nothing will beat a PDF. It can be read in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, many web browsers with built-in PDF reader capabilities, and many third-party PDF reader and processing applications. If you want to make it easy for your readers, no matter where they are or what computing gear they're using, PDFs would be the easiest way to go.

     

    ePub/ebook formatting offers more capabilities for varied computing gear, but also is not as universally accessible. For an ebook publication, there will be variances in compatibility depending on which ebook format and/or which ebook reader you use to read your ebook. It's a tradeoff between enhanced capabilities/reduced compatibilities which you'd have to judge for your own use case.

     

    Either option will let you post a file online that your readers could easily download. But I'd be guessing and imposing my biases on you if I gave you a preference, which may have nothing to do with your particular situation. So if you'd ask me, I'd have to pass the judgement call back to you.

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Randy

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      suret-canale michelAuthor
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      August 23, 2023

      Tank you all for your help, I have been working on the problem and, well, the pdf is 500 Mo as the book has 640 pages, and 600 photos !!!! With the epub file done with indesign I reach 110 Mo wich is much lighter but when i put online on my website, to get the book with the good plug-in, it offer only an option of download, and the time to download is to long so I give up with the idea to publish on line, it is to heavy, and the epub file will be sent by wetransfer personnaly to the one who ask for it. Best regards 😉 

      James Gifford—NitroPress
      James Gifford—NitroPressCorrect answer
      Legend
      August 23, 2023

      You may be able to reduce the PDF file size with careful selection of the export settings. For one thing, more than 150ppi for the images is probably wasted.

       

      But PDF would again be the superior format, as it is almost universally accessible, easy to produce and update, and can be read on the web with partial/streaming download, making the overall size irrelevant.

       

      All things considered, a book can be made about the same size in EPUB and PDF, so that aspect is unimportant. But an EPUB must be fully downloaded to read, and is highly dependent on the reader app or program used. Unless EPUB has some specific advantage for you or your audience, I suggest you stay with PDF optimized for web distribution and viewing.

        James Gifford—NitroPress
        James Gifford—NitroPress
        Legend
        August 22, 2023

        EPUB requires a specific reader at the user end. There are many, and they vary greatly in how they parse and present documents. The most generic and reliable, right now, is Calibre, and Thorium, although the latter has a persistent font size bug. 

         

        Any other reader, including Adobe's and Apple's, and more so any of the many others, may have any number of variances and faults with the same documents. 

         

        But all that is needed is a valid EPUB document and a reader on almost any platform. 

          BobLevine
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          BobLevineCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          August 22, 2023

          I'm not sure what exactly you're asking for here. If you want to use Publish Online, look in the file menu and click on Publish Online to export your document.

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          suret-canale michelAuthor
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          August 22, 2023

          Tank you Bob, my question is, may I put online my file "mybook.epub" on a web page, will it be read, does it need a plug in for  the client etc... I never did before, The epub file is done already 

           

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