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Managing Your eBook Library with Calibre

May 31, 2010 14 comments
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Calibre provides a robust suite of services to help manage your ebook library, subscribe to news feeds, and perform conversion and syncing to mobile devices. And it’s open source software, with expanding support from a large user community around the world.

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Getting Started with Scribd.com

March 22, 2010 11 comments

After listening to Scott James at the recent Get Published! Workshop, I really wanted to get familiar with Scribd.com, the document-sharing website that had partnered with him in launching is second novel, The Sower. James had talked about the massive, dedicated following there, and how people were learning new ways to use the service. I [...]

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Less Expensive, Bite-Sized, Available for Take-Out: The Book of the Future

February 17, 2010 4 comments

Mark Barrett over on Ditchwalk, is trying to figure out the epub and pdf translation processes from the point of view of an author who wants to move his work into the public sphere. When authors start having to roll up their sleeves and get under the hood of translation software, learning the ins and [...]

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Warning: Book Files Need 4 Crucial Checks to Succeed At Your Printer

December 29, 2009 0 comments

A few years ago we took a family trip to Australia. It was a great adventure but what impressed me at the time was how long it took to get ready for the trip. Passports, itineraries, housing arrangements, plans to take care of our house, dogs and cat while we were gone. Since we both [...]

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Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 2

November 12, 2009 0 comments

Last time I described how I check the status of all my linked graphics with the Link Palette, and how I re-link any missing files. The last check I make of my InDesign CS4 file before beginning the export process is to look at the book’s fonts. This is a key step in making a [...]

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