1. Go to studio.e-sentral.com (Figure 1)
Figure 1 2. Login using your publishing company's username and password > Login 3. My Account function 1. Profile Setting – Edit publisher name(will have more functions soon) 2. Manage Authors – Add / Update / Remove author's name 3. Logout – Brings you to eStudio's main page (Figure 2)
Figure 2
4. Creating new book 1. To begin creating a new epub, click on the + sign 2. Keyin the book title 3. Click Update 5. Chapters 1. Begin To insert / begin the conversion process, insert the file name for the chapters. i.e 1, 2, 3 etc (These will be displayed in the book's Table Of Contents) 2. Heading Key in the Heading. To do this, follow this steps: 1. Key-in or paste the chapter name Note: Once you key in the chapter name, the eSentral editor will pop up. The editor's function that you should take note are Bold, Italic, Font size, Font type, Styles and Paragraph Format. 2. Highlight and select Heading 1/2/3/4/5/6 3. Image 1. Click on the image icon 2. Select browse server 3. Click OK 4. Click Save all to save all the contents in one chapter. 4. Sort chapters To sort or move chapter, simple drag and drop the chapters to the required sequence. 5. Table of Contents 1. Click on the star to include that particular chapter in the Table of Contents. 2. Click X to delete the chapter. 6. Book cover 1. Click on cover 2. Select the cover 3. Save cover.
7. Metadata 1. Key in the metadata accordingly 2. Save metadata Once completed, you can do one of the following: 1. Preview – have a look at how the book will look like in our eSentral ereader. 2. Publish – Send the completed epub to your Publisher's Back end. 3. Export - Export the file into an epub format.