A good ebook formatter will typically charge a few hundred dollars or less to convert a manuscript into various ebook formats.
Not exact matches
But if any element of the resulting
ebook doesn't look how you want or if you want fancier formatting (images, font or style treatment, etc.), a knowledge of coding or hiring a
formatter would be
better.
A lot of
ebook formatters may take issue at my first two suggestions - they aren't the
best way to make
ebooks and the code may not be super clean.
Well, as a professional
eBook formatter, the question for me is, how am I supposed to deal with this?
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.
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.
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.
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.
By the way,
good way to download and format Unicode text files so that paragraph breaks would display properly and lines will not needlessly wrap is
eBook Text
Formatter tool that I've created a while ago.