Twelve Ways to Update Print Book Production Habits | Digital Book World

One of my crusading themes as an ebook developer and trainer is how to keep content - formerly known as print assets - agile and clean for future output purposes.

And the key to agile assets is cleanly formatted print files. The idea here is to typeset from print but to keep the assets flexible and elastic. The focus of any set of assets should never be just print, as all content is destined for a print afterlife; laying out pages for the print page only renders that content dangerous or even useless for an ebook, for chunking, for marketing - for any kind of use beyond print.