ePUB

ePUB is short for electronic publication. In Bloom, ePUB is one of the digital publishing options. You can use it to save your book to an *.epub file.

The Bloom Accessibility Checker and Book Metadata dialog boxes are accessibility features you use with ePUBs.

These *.epub files can be downloaded and read in a wide variety of electronic smart devices, such as smartphones, tablets and computers that have (or are) an ePUB Reader. Consequently, we cannot predict how your book might appear in every device.

ePUB mode

The ePUB mode chooser is in the Publish tab. It has two options:

Fixed asks ePUB readers to show pages exactly like you see them in Bloom. This mode requires ePUB readers that support ePUB 3 format.
Flowable allows ePUB reader apps to lay out images and text however they want.

Pro: With this mode, the ePUB reader app might allow the person reading the book to increase the font size.

Pro: This mode will work with ePUB readers that do not support ePUB 3.

Con: Any custom pages will not look good.

Con: This mode is not available if your book has overlay pages (e.g. comics).

See https://docs.bloomlibrary.org/ePUB-notes to learn more about the performance of these ePUB modes and readers.

Note

You can usually do these steps to add an actionable hyperlink:

Email: Right-click an actionable email address (underlined in blue), and then click copy email address. Paste it into Bloom.

Internet URL: Copy the desired URL from your browser's address bar. Paste it into Bloom.

Fonts:
- Fonts are embedded if they indicate that they can be embedded.
  Exceptions: Bold and italic font variants are not embedded even if they are used in the text.
- Fonts are excluded if they indicate that they cannot be embedded. But, there is no warning if a font is excluded.
  If a font indicates that it cannot be embedded, but you have permission to embed it, there are no controls that permit you to override Bloom's decision to exclude it.

ePUB

ePUB mode

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