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Format + Editor for book writing
A friend of mine is going to write a book. Therefore he is looking for an easy WYSIWYG solution. FIrst I recommended latex, but this would be a bit to hard to learn. A big part of the book is finished ...
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What factors to consider when choosing an e-book platform?
Some students that I mentor have written a number of short stories that they want to publish now.
I am totally new in this area. I did preliminary research which indicates that there are now a ...
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How do I create a book on iBookstore without having a Mac?
I use Linux, and I'd like to format a book for the iBookstore. When I go to signup to iTunes Connect to upload my books, it
says:
3. Download iTunes Producer
Download our delivery ...
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How to advertise a free e-book?
I've created a free e-book in online HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.
I've created a small site to advertise this book and an other site (currently supports forums) for the community of readers of ...
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Which e-book formats to use to get a larger readership?
I am self-publishing a free e-book which I make available in several formats: EPUB, online HTML, PDF.
I create (using my own programming scripts) EPUB and online HTML from XHTML sources which I write ...
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PDF e-book page size and fonts
I am self-publishing a free e-book which I will make available in several formats: EPUB, online HTML, PDF.
What characteristics should the PDF e-book file have? What should the page size, font size, ...
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Can a self publishing author use a Pen name/Pseudonym?
I know that an author can use a Pen name/Pseudonym instead of a true name when publishing the traditional way. This is done by signing contracts with the publisher/agent using the real name ...
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Creative Commons and / or Public Domain library
Does anyone know an online library with free books (I mean not "free of charge" but free as a concept) that provides access to e-books published by Creative Commons, Public Domain, etc?
(I'm not sure ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of digital rights management for self-published authors?
DRM (digital rights management) is being used in just about every electronic format, including files used in electronic readers. My question is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for writers, ...
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ePublishing Conference Proceedings
We have an annual conference, and as part of this conference we have a curated collection of papers published. Circulation is pretty minimal, so we are working on getting out of dead tree land and ...
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Best tool to create ebooks?
What is a recommended tool for turning a completed manuscript (a Word document) into an ebook (specifically, an EPUB file or Kindle-compatible Mobipocket file)?
I would prefer something that:
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What marketing techniques are effective for short story eBook collections?
I have a collection of short stories that I'm currently selling in the Amazon Kindle marketplace, and one of the biggest hurdles to actually getting my works read is lack of exposure.
My passive plan ...
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Self publishing: Do I still need to follow the arbitrary word count limits?
I am thinking of going down the self publishing path. Now looking at most agents and publishers websites, it seems the expected word count for most novels is around 70-90K.
Now these word counts may ...
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How do I create a book cover for my self-published book for under $500?
I'm a self-published author, I write non-fiction. I would like my book to have a reasonably good cover and stand out among others, but I'm not ready to spend more than $500 on it. What are my options?
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Kindle self-publishing, automatically update
I have a couple of small ebooks available on Amazon via Kindle direct publishing - I've just found a mistake in one of them so I fixed it and have reuploaded the file. I'm assuming that everyone who ...
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Color Scheme for Print and eBook
I am currently writing a book intended for print (POD) and eBook (PDF/ePub displayed on different devices, including iPads). I use InDesign (CS4) to create the book. The book uses colors for the ...
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Can I use my own previously published magazine article in my own book
I had an article published for 1st rights in a magazine. Can I use an excerpt or all of the article in my own ebook? I now own the copyright and am unsure about the rules of fair use pertaining to my ...
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Publishing and selling ebooks [closed]
What are my:
options
caveats / pro's & con's
reasonable expectations
for publishing my work digitally as e-books?
I remember Stephen King did something along these lines with his 'Dark Tower' ...
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Converting ms-word to ebook vs. writing from scratch?
Can anyone, who has any experience with writing ebooks, recommend a way for me to proceed?
I have a book in Microsoft Word heavy on mathematics: formulas (inline), equations (numbered) and diagrams.
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Help creating an ebook [closed]
Does anyone have some experience creating ebooks?
I have a book that I want to create an ebook from; I considered converting the book, but after trying, it produced very poor results, because the ...
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Is publishing to Amazon Kindle-alternative eBook markets worth the time and effort?
I have published a few collection Kindle eBooks, and am planning on publishing at least 3 more in the not-too-distant future. While my experience with the Kindle marketplace has been mostly positive, ...
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Do any ePublishing systems honor fixed poetry formatting?
As per this article in the Huffington Post, the Kindle discards many kinds of poem formatting.
I use a lot of white space, couplets, triplets, and long lines that cannot break. The Kindle wraps text ...
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Front-matter or back-matter?
I'm re-releasing a novella of mine as a self-published ebook shortly, and I'm wondering what to do with the traditional "front matter" of the book: copyright information, dedications, ...
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Best e-book formatting process?
The question I would like to ask is this: does anyone else have their own process (or one borrowed from elsewhere) that they use for formatting and then creating their e-books? Are you using other ...
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Best time to release a new novel?
More specifically, an e-book. I know some markets tend to have season changes which make a certain time of year more beneficial for sales, but I was wondering if anyone had noticed anything similar ...
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Is it wise to publish a novel as an e-book, and how would I do it?
I'm considering publishing my novel as an e-book (since I'm very techy) before I take the usual "paperback" route. Is this a wise choice?
Also what would I need to do? (steps).
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Why do ebooks often mimic the layout of the printed page?
I was recently editing a novel destined to be published primarily in e-book form, and made a list of pre-press instructions, to be followed when the final text is agreed upon. Some of these ...
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Publishing for Kindle
I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not uncommon for most new authors, ...
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Will e-books prevent books from going out of print (and rights from reverting)?
In the old days, books went out of print shortly after it stopped being profitable for the publisher to print new runs. My understanding is that good contracts had clauses that caused the rights to ...
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Do multimedia-objects work well in electronical publishings of fictional writing?
Electronical publishings could include multimedia, like videos or music/soundsnippets. How well does that go together with fictional writing? Could that add something to the atmosphere? Or would it ...
