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As a digital publishing coach, I could not have anticipated how many writers would come to me simply baffled
about ebook conversion!
We sent some questions
about ebook conversion to a couple of ebook design specialists whose work we admire: Laura Brady of Brady Type and Kaleeg Hainsworth of Bright Wing Books.
So even while you're formatting for print, you should be thinking
about ebook conversion.
In the comments to the post, one reader asked some questions
about ebook conversions:
Not exact matches
Within the first three months of its new site launch, Oren International saw a 69 percent
conversion rate for its
eBook, which targeted restaurants, and an 86 percent
conversion rate on an
eBook about the environment.
Go responsive with this
eBook, which will answer all your questions
about legacy
conversions to the responsive format.
I'll also talk briefly
about the possibility of using one of these tools for
conversion to the ePub
ebook file, and then a text editor or web - design app to do any post-
conversion editing.
(If you want to create an
ebook file, you shouldn't pay more than
about R2500, or $ 250, for the
conversion.
Using their calculator, I figure
conversion costs to be around $ 125 for a 60,000 - word book, which is
about right for a very simple
eBook.
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eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting
About the book: Living Wisdom of the Far North: Tales and Legends from Chukotka and Alaska compiles several traditional oral stories of the aboriginal peoples of the Russian and North American Far North and includes two new literary stories created in the spirit of those traditions.
It's easy enough to learn
about eBook publishing, I promised her, and I'd handle her
eBook's editing, and the
conversion of her Word or PDF file to Kindle's mobi format (and to Barnes and Noble's Nook format, too, if she were interested in even wider
eBook distribution).
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eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting
About the book: Dolitsky and Michael have selected four of Nagishkin's folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.
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eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting
About the book: Too often wars are described in terms of presidents and generals, emperors and kings, grand strategy and elaborate campaigns.
The promised improvements you talk
about may excite you, but most indies are jumping ship to Draft2Digital, which is already ahead of the game with price controls, is far easier to use for
ebook conversion, offers monthly payments for authors, and is rapidly expanding its distribution options too.
I lectured
about the overall state of
eBooks and
eBook publishing, touched on corporate
eBook publishing, and covered the basics of
eBook marketing, preparing your manuscript,
eBook conversion and using KDP - Kindle Direct Publishing.
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eBook design,
conversion About the book: R.J. Garner's The Grafter's Handbook is the classic reference book and revered encyclopedia (and the only one of its kind) on plant propagation by grafting, and has been favored by orchardists and gardeners since its first publication in 1947.
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eBook design,
conversion About the book: Using humorous stories with illustrations, this classic collection brings deaf culture to life through personal experiences and practical day - to - day information.
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eBook conversion About the book: «Today's beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a fact that is now front - page news with the spread of» «colony collapse disorder.»»
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eBook design,
eBook conversion and distribution
About the book: The third edition of An Environmental Approach to Golf Course Development is for anyone interested in learning more about developing or refurbishing golf courses with sensitivity to Mother Nature's g
About the book: The third edition of An Environmental Approach to Golf Course Development is for anyone interested in learning more
about developing or refurbishing golf courses with sensitivity to Mother Nature's g
about developing or refurbishing golf courses with sensitivity to Mother Nature's gifts.
AuthorImprints Services:
eBook conversion About the book: Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system.
AuthorImprints Services:
eBook conversion About the book: It's not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and ends up reviving a community and starting a national economic - reform movement.
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eBook conversion, distribution
About the book: Former standup comedian and humor columnist Wood sold his condo in Seattle and set out on a year long global golfing journey.
AuthorImprints Services:
eBook conversion, cover design
About the book: Three short stories of angels by F.J. Dagg, author of the award - winning novel The Lowlands of Heaven.
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eBook conversion, distribution
About the book: «GottaGoGolf is the long awaited for replacement of Golf for Women»... «This is awesome and will be a hit!»
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eBook conversion, distribution
About the book: The Man Confused by God is the story of Bennet Mermel.
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About the book: «In my nearly 40 years of conducting marriage and couples counseling, I wished I had a small comprehensive book for couples.»
It really seems that Amazon's tool is more
about PDF
conversion than making rich media
ebooks, which is what Apple did with iBooks Author.
Our Printed book to
eBook conversion service has satisfied many clients and we are confident
about our output quality and affordable price at which we undertake jobs.
If I'm right, and it is
about making a print reader comfortable with
ebook reading, then
conversion is a case of making the offer compelling enough until the formerly print dedicated reader has shifted format without really realizing it.
About BookBaby: Distributing
eBooks in over 170 countries through more than a dozen online retail stores, including Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and more, BookBaby offers a full array of services including
eBook conversion,
eBook formatting, cover design and distribution, as well as short run book printing.
About BookBaby BookBaby makes self - publishing easy: From book printing,
eBooks,
conversion and distribution, marketing consultation, cover design, and editing.
I've written here
about some of the
eBook conversion software Averill mentioned in her question.
Do you have questions
about self - publishing or need some help with book design, covers,
eBook conversions, editing, book marketing, or more?
Clients frequently ask if I provide
conversion to
ebook formats, and I invariably refer them to one or another company where the people already know all
about EPUB and MOBI (the variant HTML used by Kindle) and the idiosyncracies of the other ereaders.
Depending on the length of the
ebook conversion queue, it usually takes
about five minutes from the time you upload your book until it appears for sale on the Smashwords home page.
There is no need to worry
about any of these, however: your
ebook conversion software will create all these parts automatically.
Savory is
about 200 lines of Bourne Shell and Python, built to drive a modified copy of Kovid Goyal's open - source Calibre
ebook conversion and management suite.
«We are very excited
about the opportunity to provide
eBook conversion services through eBookPie», says Joshua Tallent, Founder and CEO of
eBook Architects.
To debunk the myth
about auto
conversion, I must add that manual
eBook creation with a good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and the EPUB specification still counts to make sure that every picture is correctly inserted, ToC perfectly inked, images displayed to fit the screen, etc..