To publish on the web, use the HTML code from the epub file, which will need minimal cleaning. To get the “raw” HTML from the epub file, go to https://www.onlineconverter.com/epub-to-html and upload your epub. You get a zip file back, which you need to unzip:
All we are interested in is the index.htm file, which is all the merged chapters of the book in a single file. Delete the headers and footers like this:
It is good practice to remove instances like class=“calibre4”
, class=“calibre1”
with a simple mass “find and replace”, though not strictly necessary.
The main thing is to make the code suitable to be pasted directly into Joomla/Wordpress (source view), so adjust accordingly. The online converter preserves a usable Table of Contents as long as you have a proper one in the original epub file, and you may have to delete some <nav>
tags and change the <ol>
tags to <ul>
.
For the cover image (intro image in Joomla), you will likely need to modify your book cover to a landscape format rather than portrait. This is easily done in Adobe Spark (resize to something like 1080×500 px and move the elements around).