Over the next three posts, I’ll be showing you how ebooks are coded and formatted. You’ve heard me call an ebook a website in a box. This time we’re going to talk about what’s inside the box. First things first: let me share an ebook with you....
I planned on posting a brief intro to the HTML and CSS that a beginner should know to work on an ebook, but I’m in the middle of launching my YA historical novel Risuko this month, and so I need to share a shorter, more technical post. This month, I’m going to teach...
Previously, I’ve compared some of the computer apps that you can use to convert your manuscript into an ebook. This month I’ll talk about online conversion tools — all of the ones I’m going to discuss are attached to the retailers and distributors that you are going...
When I started my series on ebook conversion, the first post was What IS an Ebook. I made the point that, for my purposes and those of the series, an ebook was an ePub file — what I called a website in a box. A couple of the commenters pointed out that a PDF was also...
Over the last few months I’ve discussed preparing your manuscript and your images for conversion into ebook form. This month, I’m going to look more closely at a subject that I’ve touched on: choosing an ebook conversion tool. Just to review, I...
