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How To Make A Professional eBook to Sell of Give Away
- sixtofour 15y agoNot bad as a shallow overview.
- evanw 15y agoSell *or Give Away
- gavinpc 15y agoYes, take note, Ms. Morissette. A typo in a headline about "professional" publishing: that is ironic.
- acabal 15y agoShameless plug: I'm working on a ebook-generating web app that will let you upload a Word/OpenOffice document, have it automagically parsed, then let you tweak it with some useful prettifying algorithms--or by hand--until it looks great. Then you can download it in epub or mobi format. It's a step above Amazon's and Smashword's "Upload and pray" system, and a step below a full-blown ebook editor like Sigil or InDesign. Email is in my profile if you want to get in on an early version.
- runevault 15y agosuggestion, go check out kindleboards.com's writer's cafe, tons of indy ebook writers who might be interested in your tool, whether now or after you have more of the kinks worked out.
- reeses 15y agoI've done this myself (hey, look, no self-linking to Amazon!) and the Mac application Scrivener is probably a better starting point. It's free for 30 days (of use, no less), supports much better outline-based editing, and can easily export to amazon's kindlegen.