The big exception is Smashwords that requires a DOC file and then can manage some really odd mangling of it in
their meatgrinder process.
With Scrollmotion being a leader in the mobile book app space with their Iceberg reader technology and polished children's book apps, I myself am curious if this partnership will bring about any future opportunities for Smashwords authors to have access to creating and publishing their books using the Iceberg Reader technology directly without going through the Smashwords
meatgrinder process.
Not exact matches
Book
processing time: Smashwords has the edge when it comes to getting the book into its own storefront, since that happens right after
meatgrinder has completed its magic.
If you use plan on using Smashwords, their auto conversion
process, which they call the «
Meatgrinder,» does not always produce the best results if your Word document is not setup properly.
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.
Once you've completed the proper formatting, Smashwords takes your single format file,
processes it through their
Meatgrinder software and outputs it into approximately 10 separate ebook formats, including ePub, PDF, Mobi (Kindle) and RTF among others.
Smashwords»
meatgrinder conversion
process sometimes has a few issues that can defy logic... or what passes for logic in my brain, anyway.
When you upload your Word document to Smashwords — the only format accepted — it goes through their «
meatgrinder» conversion
process to create a variety of e-book 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.