How to Format an eBook from Scratch
By Jason Boog on Jan 15, 2010 at Galley Cat.

Some digital reporters just cover eBook formatting. Over at our digitally obsessed sibling eBookNewser, editor Craig Morgan Teicher will actually format a poetry eBook in a series of blog posts.

Over the next few months, Teicher will personally guide readers through all the steps of building an eBook: from the tricky coding to adapting his digital book for different e-Readers. In this practical primer, you can actually learn eBook formatting through his practical field reports. Teicher will be embedded, as it were, in the industry he covers.

Here's more from his post: "As you may or may not know, in the other part of my writerly life, I'm a poet, and, sort of, a fiction writer; my second book is coming out in June. It's a collection of stories and fables called Cradle Book, being published by BOA Editions, a venerable small poetry press ... I initially approached BOA about doing an eBook in addition to the print edition when I saw that the press had put three of its titles into the Kindle Store. At that time, Peter said an eBook basically wasn't in the budget, and that the press wanted to test the field before going further."

What questions do you have about eBook and e-reader formatting? Leave them in the comments and Teicher will answer them as his digital adventure continues.