Sentences with phrase «as ebook formatters»

While this is not the most elegant solution, and purists will scream out at the misuse of the tag here, the reality of things is that as eBook formatters we currently can not afford to be purists.

As an eBook formatter for hundreds of independent authors, I also constantly witness the struggles and problems that authors fight.

Not exact matches

Third option: Put books up at multiple venues yourself (there are venues you won't be able to access directly, such as Sony)-- Most will require an ePub file, so if you don't know how to convert whatever you have to ePub, you'll have to hire an eBook formatter.

Well, as a professional eBook formatter, the question for me is, how am I supposed to deal with this?

I have an amazing formatter that lays out the books so they look just as neat and clean as any mass published novel, both in ebook and print.

McGuire is the founder of the Pressbooks platform, an open source content management system and book formatter that outputs designed books in all major publishing formats: PDF (for print and digital distribution), EPUB and MOBI ebook formats, as well as a fully native Web version of each book.

For only $ 5.99 you can now benefit from the years of experience I have had as a professional eBook formatter, learning the ins and outs and the tricks of the trade I have applied to many hundreds of eBooks from New York Times bestselling writers and indie authors alike.

While we still urge all writers to produce the highest quality, using editors and proofreaders, cover designers, and formatters as needed, there is no reason why you can't publish every eBook you write.

I can think of five people offhand who've started businesses as author assistants or ebook formatters in the last six months.

To me as a software engineer, author, publisher and professional eBook formatter, the omissions are truly painful to behold.

The good news is that there are a number of skilled digital formatters who can convert your manuscript into an ebook for a very reasonable cost, making outsourcing this step the most cost - effective time - saver there is, especially as compared to creating cover art and having thorough editing and proofreading done.

Therefore, to really make a profit as an author, you should cast your ebook net as far as you can, and control your own distribution by hiring an ebook formatter and owning your own ebook files.

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.