eCub - a simple to use EPUB and MobiPocket ebook creator
Wed, 12/03/2008 - 18:43 — julian
eCub - a simple .epub creation tool
eCub is a cross-platform tool for creating EPUB and MobiPocket books. EPUB is become a popular e-book standard and is open and free for all to implement. EPUB files can be read by MobiPocket, Adobe Digital Editions, FBReader, Stanza, the Sony Reader, and many other readers and applications. MobiPocket books can be read on desktop platforms, mobile platforms and the Amazon Kindle e-book reader.
eCub offers a convenient way to import text and XHTML files and create all the necessary components of an EPUB file. It makes it easy to view and edit files, and check the generated EPUB, using external tools. It can also generate audio files from your book content using eSpeak and other text-to-speech software.
A wizard allows you to create a new project in seconds, with options for generating a table of contents, a cover page, and a title page. You can create a simple cover design image using templates and a simple design tool. Then you can compile, check and try out the EPUB at the click of a button.
To summarize, this is what eCub does:
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Creates unencrypted EPUB files from text or XHTML files;
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Creates MobiPocket files if you have the mobigen application;
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allows editing of the text or XHTML files with a simple internal editor or designated external editors;
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helps you create a simple cover design image;
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optionally creates title, content and cover pages;
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can be run from the command line as part of a build script;
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can be used in portable mode (data and settings are stored locally);
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can convert your book content to audio files (WAV or MP3).
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eCub does not do WYSIWYG or syntax-highlighted editing, and it currently only produces unencrypted EPUB and MobiPocket output. It's likely to be useful for simple projects, such as novels, where using an expensive tool such as Adobe's InDesign is overkill.
We're providing eCub free of charge, on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris, for personal and commercial use. However, eCub is not an open source application.
You may like to consider the Jutoh ebook editor for easier, WYSIWYG editing, more sophisticated import, and greater configurability. Jutoh also handles footnotes, index entries and other aspects that would take a long time to perfect with eCub.
eCub is built with the cross-platform application development framework wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org), and all dialogs were created by our own Rapid Application Development tool, DialogBlocks (http://www.dialogblocks.com).
Download eCub
Download the latest eCub here. I'd be grateful if you can send bug reports here.
eCub for Windows - eCub for Windows is about 4.8 MB in size. You need about 10 MB of disk space.
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Vista/Windows 7 users: if when running eCub you see error messages about a resource load failure, please install eCub into a folder other than Program Files, or adjust permissions for the Program Files folder.
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eCub for Mac OS X - eCub for Mac OS X is about 5 MB in size. It requires OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or later. This disk image contains universal binaries and will run on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
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The archive is a disk image; downloading will automatically mount it, and you can then drag the eCub 2.xx folder
to an appropriate place, such as the Applications folder. You need about 20 MB of disk space.
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http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub
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，不过弄懂原理才是关键，希望以后高手来出教程贴，解析关于epub的内部原理，毕竟现在iphone,kindle这两部“电子书浏览器“都是通用这个格式，也许这个格式未来真的会成为主流也说不定呢~