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In InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad, author Anne-Marie Concepción shows publishers, designers, and production staff how to use the software they already use to create print books—InDesign—for the emerging ebook market. Beginning with an overview of digital publishing for the ebook marketplace, the course demonstrates how to prepare existing InDesign files for optimal EPUB and Kindle conversion. The course covers applying professional text formatting, validating EPUBs, and incorporating search-engine friendly metadata, as well as setting up publisher accounts at the major ebook distribution channels and selling ebooks directly to readers through an e-commerce site. Exercise files accompany the course.

Providing a file from a database in exactly the same format that's requested by the user is an extremely valuable technique.

Maximize the power of Crystal Reports 2013. Crystal Reports allows you to quickly import and analyze data from a variety of places, including Excel, Access, groupware applications like Lotus Notes, HTML and XML files, and SAP. Learn how to master its tools and options and build better, faster reports that lead to better business decisions.

Learn everything you need to know to get started building Android apps with the Android 5 SDK and Google's Android Studio IDE.

Many businesses that use SharePoint also store data in other places: SQL databases, cloud storage sites, HR and accounting systems, inventories, and point-of-sale systems. Learn how to connect to, read, and even update information stored externally, in locations like these, and create rich, highly visual webpages with SharePoint Designer.

Web services drive communication on the web and they have been at the core of modern application architectures for many years. Regardless of what language or platform a developer is using, understanding how web services work is a critical skill. David Gassner starts this course with a definition of web services and explores their history and use in distributed computing. He then explores the transport protocols HTTP and SMTP; messaging formats such as SOAP, ATOM, JSON, and Plain Old XML (POX); and service standards like SOAP toolkits, REST, and OData. Plus, learn how to secure your communications across the web with API keys and other security standards.

If you've always wanted to notate your songs and compositions and print your music for rehearsals and live performances, this is the course for you.

Access databases typically live on your desktop and are shared with a limitednumber of users over a local network.

Want an easy way to query and update data? To query different data stores with a single tool? LINQ is the answer. Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) extends Visual Studio with powerful query capabilities based on C# and Visual Basic. LINQ makes big data doable. In LINQ with C# Essential Training, engineer Olivia Chiu introduces techniques for querying, updating, and transforming data with LINQ.