Tools and software

• epub Check—epub validator
  • epub check app for Mac
• Flight Crew—another epub validator
• ePub Zipper and Unzipper (Mac only)
• Adobe Digital Editions
• Sigil—WYSIWYG ebook editor
• Calibre—eBook library management
• Bookworm—for reading epubs online

Kindle Tools

• KindleGen
• Kindle Previewer

Retailers and distributors

• Amazon Digital Text Platform
• Google Partners (limited to US-based Google accounts)
• Barnes and Noble pubit!
• Smashwords

Other

• Book Glutton
• Kobo Store
• Sony Reader Store
• All Romance eBooks; OmniLit
• eBooks.com
• Fictionwise
• Books on Board
• Diesel eBooks
• eBook Mall
• eReader
• Txtr
• Aldiko—eBook reader for Android

Get into the Apple iBookstore

• iTunes Connect
• Apple approved iBookstore aggregators
• Other aggregators
  • Lulu
  • Bibliocore
  • BookBaby
  • Constellation

Library ebook resources

• BC Library to Go
• Bluefire Reader—for reading library books on the iPad
• Script to download library books onto Bluefire

Interesting things to read

• eBook Architects—eBook conversion house
• eBook Ninjas—interesting podcast run by eBook architects
• International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)—creators of the epub standards
• Teleread—eBook and digital publishing news
• Publishers Weekly digital news
• Nathan Bransford blog
• The Digital Reader
• Digital Book World
• Liz Castro—misc eBook guides
• ThreePress
• if:book—by the Future of the Book folk
• Storyist—interesting word processor for authors
• How to write badly well—just for fun!