Sentences with phrase «smashwords meat grinder»

My first attempt at getting through the Smashwords meat grinder took about a week — a week to read through the intensive manual, then an entire day to get past the frustrating «auto vetter» errors.

Since Apple is the major reason to publish through Smashwords, and since Smashwords meat grinder is a complication in and of itself, I unpublished my Olivia Outlaw work from Smashwords after Apple's rejection of «Captured.»

doc, the smashwords meat grinder is a beast of a failing machine.

The quality of output from their system doesn't appear to produce more than a PDF and sometimes PDF, I have to agree with Mark Coker that the Smashwords meat grinder does a better job at epub creation.

Not exact matches

After uploading your manuscript through Smashwords» famous «meat grinder,» this company will publish and distribute your book.

I for one have never put my own books on Smashwords precisely because they brand them and run them through their shoddy «meat grinder.»

But the reasons for maligning the eBook publishing and distribution platform are as diverse as the books Smashwords spits out through its «meat grinder» software.

Smashwords's meat grinder that formats into multiple distributors needs work IMO.

Smashwords actually prefers Word docs — and will allow you to download your converted file in ePub format after they've run it through their famous «Meat Grinder» conversion tool (it's actually a customized version of the software at the heart of Calibre).

Maybe I'm a control freak (or just a freak), but I like the meat - grinder and strict formatting requirements of Smashwords.

If you're planning to sell through Smashwords, then you have no choice but to use meat grinder and hope for the best.

A good resource for formatting Word files is Smashwords Style Guide http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52 (though it is intended for their «Meat Grinder» system, it is a great source of information).