Sentences with phrase «meatgrinder made»

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Their converter is more friendly than the Meatgrinder over at Smashwords, they have some extras that make your publishing experience a little more pleasant, and you get reports back much closer to real time.

The ability to create a bunch of other formats via Meatgrinder is nice in theory, but in actual practice, my sales have been small enough on Smashwords to not make those other formats worth considering.

Furthermore, when introducing each type of formatting, there is no explanation about the reasons / bases for ebooks» formatting issues or the assistance offered, via Smashwords vs. Amazon, for example, or about difficulties of passing through Smashwords ««meatgrinder» successfully and what that success generates in benefits; no mention is made of that nor that Digital2Digital does not use such gate - keeping, for example.

I can't vouch for their quality; most likely they use an automatic «meatgrinder» type of ebook software and then (hopefully) someone gives it a quick proof to make sure it's clean.

But one problem with Meatgrinder is that it doesn't offer output that satisfies ebook design pros, many of whom think that (compared to making an eBook from scratch) it's not easy to control the quality of the output.

I mean, companies like Smashwords actually actively discourage authors from creating proper eBook files by not allowing them to upload individual files and instead forcing their Meatgrinder upon everyone, a technology that — in its current state — does nothing to improve eBook quality and typically makes things incomprehensibly worse.

I followed his instructions precisely and here I am: my first e-book made it through the meatgrinder without even a snicker or a cough.

Review by: Seraphim Press on June 09, 2013: (no rating) You may curse and stomp and rip out your hair at all the tedious little steps it takes to pre-format your document to upload to meatgrinder, but Mark Coker leads you step - by - step (with pictures) through the process and, even without meatgrinder, you'd be paying some ebook formatter big bucks to make these changes FOR you so you might as well learn now and avoid those bugaboos in the future.

Over the last six going on seven years, Smashwords introduced our free ebook printing press, Meatgrinder, which made it possible for any writer anywhere to publish an ebook in minutes; we opened distribution for the first time to major retailers and library partners that were previously inaccessible to self - published authors; we developed sophisticated yet easy - to - use publishing tools that help writers and small indie presses publish with pride and professionalism; we worked to actively educate our authors and publishers how to leverage best practices to publish with greater success; and we've been fierce (but friendly!)

In 2015, our authors and publishers can expect to see continuous improvements across every part of our business, including: New distribution and merchandising tools that make your books more discoverable and desirable by readers New price management tools that give our authors and publishers more granular control over pricing in multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to come.

In The Meatgrinder Madrigal, the artist spins a dense and complex web of narrative, allusion and dark humour to create a new mythos, making classical works from art history serve as her «found objects».