http://tidbits.com/ When iBooks 3 was released in October 2012, edition updating was touted as one of its features. Now that it’s finally available, here’s how it works, at least for books in EPUB3 and iBooks Author formats — EPUB2 need not apply. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13448?rss#comments_16982 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:08:54 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13448#comments_16982 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13448?rss#comments_16979 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:52:03 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13448#comments_16979 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13448?rss#comments_16973 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:48:14 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13448#comments_16973
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Not being sophisticated enough to use Pages, I was stuck with the feature-impoverished InDesign CS6. It does, however, give users three different ePub options, includinge Pub 3.0, so my books are updatable. Lucky me!

InDesign CS6.0 also has a Kindle export plug-in created by Amazon, so you might look into shifting your workflow to it. You'd be able to create print, PDF, ePub, and Kindle versions, not only with the same app, but from the same text flow (correcting typos only once), applying different layouts and formatting to each if you want.

With CS6, Adobe has created a most impressive tool for going from one text flow to many output formats. It's not cheap. But if you factor in labor and time costs, it might prove an excellent deal.
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