I can think of five people offhand who've started businesses as author assistants or
ebook formatters in the last six months.
Not exact matches
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in self - publishing, Angela Quarles discusses the pitfalls
in formatting for
ebooks and what to look for
in a
formatter, Marcy Kennedy explains how to find and select a cover designer, and David Kudler shares a lot of -LSB-...]
After you've identified errors
in your print book or
ebook, you'll need to have your book designer or
formatter make corrections
in your formatted or designed file.
The sea of change sweeping through the publishing industry, the advent of
ebooks and Kindle Direct Publishing, the increasing availability of editors / book cover designers / proofreaders /
formatters that self - published authors can outsource to, and the rising standards of self - publishing novels themselves convinced me otherwise
in 2010.
If Amazon wants to insure its continued dominance they will have to take the lead
in fighting spam, following the example of Smashwords, a prominent
ebook formatter, which curates the content of every project submitted to them.
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.
There's Smashwords
in distribution, and thousands of freelance book doctors, editors, consultants, printers,
ebook formatters, book designers, marketing services, etc..
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.
Len, see if you can interview the creator of Sigil
EBook Editor used by many authors and
formatters in the USA.
If you can actually make this practice to use Ctrl - space
in all the right places part of your general writing habit, all the better, you will be properly prepared right off the bat, and you will make the life of your
eBook formatter a whole lot easier.
Most
formatters will assure your placement
in the Smashwords Premium Catalog for distribution to retailers listed here: http://smashwords.com/distribution Review the Smashwords Style Guide to learn how
ebook formatting is different from print formatting (
ebooks can not and should not look like a facsimile of the print book, for example).
This is just one of the frustrations authors and
formatters are up against
in the
ebook formatting world.
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eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette and Guido Henckel's blog post series Take Pride In Your eBook Formatting] If you aren't quite so broke, or don't want to do it yourself, research ebook format
eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette and Guido Henckel's blog post series Take Pride
In Your
eBook Formatting] If you aren't quite so broke, or don't want to do it yourself, research ebook format
eBook Formatting] If you aren't quite so broke, or don't want to do it yourself, research
ebook format
ebook formatters.
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.
In this interview, author and
ebook formatter / publisher Moriah Jovan gives us tips on the best way to format
ebooks and how the romance genre led the way.