In Draft2Digital's defense, HTML - >
PDF automated conversion is a very technically complex process if there is no human intelligence involved.
Provides a platform that
automates conversion rate optimization and user acquisition and enables direct marketing by its clients in e-commerce, B2B, travel, and publishing.
Because a PDF is in a read - only mode, formatting an ebook
via automated conversion processes can result in unpleasant errors: run - on sentences, broken paragraphs, and missing punctuation.
Unlike automated conversion software and services with a one - size - fits - all approach, we review your manuscript for it's formatting needs and take time to consider your market, content, and readership.
o Although paperback is offered as an alternative for you to conveniently publish a print version of your digital book, we do not recommend you
let automated conversion software handle your manuscript at this stage because of the results it may produce.
docx file that went through the
KDP automated conversion process, it is recommended that you download your converted MOBI file by clicking on «Download Book Preview File.»
It is the bad reputation of ebooks, due to so much poor quality ebooks on the market, resulting
from automated conversions by non-professionals!
Sure, anyone can write a document in a word processor, run it through some export tool, use a
fully automated conversion utility or peruse the services of an online service, but the sad fact of the matter is that none of these approaches typically results in, what I call, production - level digital books.
One of the things I do at my job is clean up and beautify e-books that have been produced by a «meatgrinder» — the sort of
automated conversion process that an outsourcer uses.
All our work is done in - house by two people, is handcrafted and not generated
by automated conversion software, and has a personal, creative touch that will make your book look at least as good as those produced by the large publishing houses.
These issues smell strongly of «
automated conversion,» which is notoriously problematic.
The automated conversion process will lay out your book's interior according to a template built around best practices.
is similar to the Amazon KDP and gives indie authors the ability to upload a higher quality of ePub file that will not be lost through
an automated conversion process where standards might be lower.
What value can an ebook conversion specialist add to the ebook conversion process that
an automated conversion tool can't provide?
In Draft2Digital's
automated conversion process, headers and footers are stripped out anyway.
``... I am researching the time it takes on average to convert from PDF to EPUB, including the time it takes to edit the «rough» EPUB file created by
the automated conversion to clean up the formatting errors, resulting in a «clean» EPUB suitable for display on an eReader device.
The time it takes to correct
an automated conversion (cleanup errors) depends on many factors:
Conversion software such as Calibre claims to
automate the conversion process, but I've seldom found an Amazon - sourced MOBI file (even without digital rights management code embedded) that converts easily and fully, without problems.
Smashwords is well known for Meatgrinder,
its automated conversion platform.
The automated conversion process mangles the formatting and design, creating erroneous page breaks, misaligned images, improper paragraph styles, etc..
Please note that
automated conversion of Word documents (at KDP, Smashwords, et.
If you're patient and willing to format your Word document carefully, you can use
the automated conversion processes of Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Pronoun or similar ebook retailer and distribution services.
I'm a bit scared that the next step will be
automated conversion of PDF into proprietary kindle formats with expiration and DRM so you don't keep readings beyond the class ending, can't save them, etc..
Unfortunately, it looks as though the formatting is completely blown out when
their automated conversion is used.
The Smashwords Meatgrinder,
the automated conversion program that takes your Word.
For BB eBooks clients, we recommend bypassing
the automated conversion process, which has its limits, and submitting directly the EPUB we provide you.
Although, if you are an author on a major shoe string who does not want to learn how to code and needs to get a book to market ASAP, it may be worth trying out
their automated conversion rather than contracting someone like us to do a professional EPUB / MOBI conversion.
But that will be true of
any automated conversion tool you use.
Writing Life gives users the ability to upload EPUB files, so high - quality eBook development will not be lost through
an automated conversion process.
NOOK Press gives users the ability to upload EPUB files, so high - quality eBook development will not be lost through
an automated conversion process.
NOOK doesn't handle non-ebook format files, where Kindle will handle text files directly and Amazon provides
an automated conversion for HTML and Microsoft Word files.
You can upload an edited word document right to KDP and other ebook retailers, but
automated conversion can make many mistakes.