Last Modified 2022.2.8
How to make EPUB ebook
Getting Started
Create a directory for the EPUB.
EPUB Directory
MyFirstBook (ROOT Directory)
├── mimetype
├── META-INF
│ └── container.xml
└── OEBPS
├── content.opf
├── toc.ncx
├── css
| └── epub.css
├── images
| └── cover.jpg
└── xhtml
├── cover.xhtml
├── preface.xhtml
├── ch01.xhtml
└── ch02.xhtml
Create files in the directory above.
mimetype
application/epub+zip
container.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<container version="1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
<rootfiles>
<rootfile full-path="OEBPS/content.opf" media-type="application/oebps-package+xml"/>
</rootfiles>
</container>
Run the following Java program:
MakeUUID.java
import java.util.UUID;
public class MakeUUID {
public static void main(String[] args) {
UUID uuid = UUID.randomUUID();
System.out.println(uuid);
}
}
C:\Users> javac MakeUUID.java C:\Users> java MakeUUID b5fc6c97-5eeb-44c5-af36-87843d9db1fc
content.opf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="BookId" version="2.0">
<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
<dc:identifier id="BookId" opf:scheme="UUID">urn:uuid:b5fc6c97-5eeb-44c5-af36-87843d9db1fc</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>My First Book</dc:title>
<dc:creator opf:role="aut">John Doe</dc:creator>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:date opf:event="modification">2019-10-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>ZZ Books</dc:publisher>
<meta name="cover" content="cover-img" />
</metadata>
<manifest>
<item href="toc.ncx" id="ncx" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml" />
<item href="css/epub.css" id="epub.css" media-type="text/css"/>
<item href="images/cover.jpg" id="cover-img" media-type="image/jpeg"/>
<item href="xhtml/cover.xhtml" id="cover.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
<item href="xhtml/preface.xhtml" id="preface.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
<item href="xhtml/ch01.xhtml" id="ch01.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
<item href="xhtml/ch02.xhtml" id="ch02.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
</manifest>
<spine toc="ncx">
<itemref idref="cover.xhtml" linear="no"/>
<itemref idref="preface.xhtml"/>
<itemref idref="ch01.xhtml"/>
<itemref idref="ch02.xhtml"/>
</spine>
</package>
toc.ncx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ncx PUBLIC "-//NISO//DTD ncx 2005-1//EN"
"http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx-2005-1.dtd">
<ncx xmlns="http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/" version="2005-1">
<head>
<meta content="urn:uuid:b5fc6c97-5eeb-44c5-af36-87843d9db1fc" name="dtb:uid" />
</head>
<docTitle>
<text>My First Book</text>
</docTitle>
<navMap>
<navPoint id="navPoint-1" playOrder="1">
<navLabel>
<text>Chapter 1</text>
</navLabel>
<content src="xhtml/ch01.xhtml"/>
</navPoint>
<navPoint id="navPoint-2" playOrder="2">
<navLabel>
<text>Chapter 2</text>
</navLabel>
<content src="xhtml/ch02.xhtml"/>
</navPoint>
</navMap>
</ncx>
epub.css
@charset "UTF-8";
html, body {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 1em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
p {
line-height: 1.4;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
cover.jpg
cover.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Cover</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="text-align: center; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;">
<img src="../images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
preface.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
<head>
<title>Preface</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><strong>My First Book</strong></p>
<p>Author : John Doe</p>
<p>Publisher : ZZ Books</p>
<p>Address : NYC</p>
<p>Telephone : 000-0000-0000</p>
<p>Registration Number : 0000-000000</p>
<p>Published Date : 10/9/2019</p>
<p>Price : 9.9</p>
<p>ISBN : 000-00-000000-0-0</p>
<p>E-mail : john@doe.org</p>
</body>
</html>
ch01.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
<head>
<title>Chapter 1</title>
<link href="../css/epub.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Chapter 1</h1>
<p>
A B C D...
</p>
</body>
</html>
ch02.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
<head>
<title>Chapter 2</title>
<link href="../css/epub.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Chapter 2</h1>
<p>
E F G H...
</p>
</body>
</html>
Create EPUB file
You need to install Info-ZIP's zip.exe in your windows.
Download zip.exe from http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip. And copy it to C:\Windows.
Move to root directory and run the followings:
zip -0Xq MyFirstBook.epub mimetype zip -Xr9Dq MyFirstBook.epub META-INF OEBPS
Check EPUB file
Download epubcheck-4.1.1.zip from https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/releases/tag/v4.1.1.
Unzip and move the directory to where you want.
Check for errors by running the following at the command prompt:
java -jar C:/epubcheck-4.1.1/epubcheck.jar C:/Users/john/MyFirstBook/MyFirstBook.epub
Test
If you paste the MyFirstBook.epub to iPad via iTunes, iPad register it to the iPad's iBooks.
