Answers.Body: <p>My recommendation is to keep it as a PDF and let people read it by using a PDF app on their tablet. </p>
  
  <p>As long as you have a decent sized tablet (9 inches or more), PDFs can look superb. I don't know if scores have any special requirements for size. </p>
  
  <p>Another option would be to use a fixed layout epub <a href="http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Fixed_layout_ePub" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Fixed_layout_ePub</a></p>
  
  <p>The easiest way to do that would be to purchase a one month license to Adobe Indesign, import your pdf into it and do any necessary formatting adjustments (One month licenses are cheap, but the learning curve is fairly steep). </p>
  
  <p>Aha, I have forgotten to ask the key question: do you want to sell it? If yes and you want to do through Amazon, that is a whole different question (your only option would be a fixed layout epub for Kindle). </p>
  
  <p>Even if you say yes, I would still just keep it as a pdf and upload it to smashwords and sell it there (they accept pdf files for selling). </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>There is something called "the Lilypond music typesetting program". Louisiana music professor Jon Kulp describes how he used it ( and lots of other things) to make an ebook with music examples for his students:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://jonathankulp.org/goetschius_rationale.html" rel="nofollow">http://jonathankulp.org/goetschius_rationale.html</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>Someone has asked me to make an ebook of their music book (sheet music). What is the best file type to use? I am hoping that people will be able to see it on as many devices as possible. It is currently formatted as a PDF.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: One possibility, that I unfortunately have no experience with, is to convert the sheet music to SVG. That would give you much better rendering/scaling than PDF, but would undoubtedly be quite a bit of work.
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ThreadText: # How do I make an ebook of sheet music?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-14)
  
  Someone has asked me to make an ebook of their music book (sheet music). What is the best file type to use? I am hoping that people will be able to see it on as many devices as possible. It is currently formatted as a PDF.
  
  **Tags:** conversion
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: One possibility, that I unfortunately have no experience with, is to convert the sheet music to SVG. That would give you much better rendering/scaling than PDF, but would undoubtedly be quite a bit of work.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-06-14. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  My recommendation is to keep it as a PDF and let people read it by using a PDF app on their tablet.
  
  As long as you have a decent sized tablet (9 inches or more), PDFs can look superb. I don't know if scores have any special requirements for size.
  
  Another option would be to use a fixed layout epub <http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Fixed_layout_ePub>
  
  The easiest way to do that would be to purchase a one month license to Adobe Indesign, import your pdf into it and do any necessary formatting adjustments (One month licenses are cheap, but the learning curve is fairly steep).
  
  Aha, I have forgotten to ask the key question: do you want to sell it? If yes and you want to do through Amazon, that is a whole different question (your only option would be a fixed layout epub for Kindle).
  
  Even if you say yes, I would still just keep it as a pdf and upload it to smashwords and sell it there (they accept pdf files for selling).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-08-11. Score: 1
  
  There is something called "the Lilypond music typesetting program". Louisiana music professor Jon Kulp describes how he used it ( and lots of other things) to make an ebook with music examples for his students:
  
  <http://jonathankulp.org/goetschius_rationale.html>
  
  
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