PE1 - eBooks

Since I know iMovie very well, I am doing my practical experience on the creation of eBooks. I have a book that I did in 2007 called Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters for Peachpit Press. I now want to update the book for Pro Tools 9 and make that into an eBook with interactive images and video tutorials. This is quite the daunting task as I dig into this more and more. It seems that Adobe InDesign is the standard application for creating eBooks. There are a few different formats just as images have jpg, tiff, pdf etc - Well, the standard eBook format is what's called an ePub file and InDesign can export ePub files. An iPad uses ePub files, but the Kindle uses its own format. I am focusing on the iPad since I want full color and interactivity.So - much of my practical experience will be using InDesign, but there are a few other different applications that I will be using along the way.To learn this, I started by looking on Lynda.com and while they have InDesign tutorials, and one does mention eBooks and ePub, it doesn't really cover what I need. The author is teaching about creating interactive content with InDesign but he is creating SWF, (Flash) files and the iPad doesn't support Flash. So, I googled the author, found his email at Milwaukee School or Art and Design and contacted him directly to ask about adding video tutorials for the iPad. I haven't heard back yet. Fingers crossed.To get started learning, I watched this:and then I went to this very cool site called CreativeLive.com - http://creativelive.com/They have a class that I purchased - http://creativelive.com/courses/ebookswithcs5which I am very pleased with, but a bit overwhelmed.So, I am on the way, I'll keep you posted, as I make progress.