Booktango.comThere’s a new kid on the block and I like him! First impressions are important, and Booktango exudes professionalism. The site is well laid out and their customer service is phenomenal. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST I was just finishing up… Read More

Booktango.comThere’s a new kid on the block and I like him! First impressions are important, and Booktango exudes professionalism. The site is well laid out and their customer service is phenomenal. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST I was just finishing up… Read More

Sigil is a completely free  program that will enable you to not only convert your ebook to ePub…, but will ensure that all parts of your ebook conform to the requirements of ePub, so an extremely handy tool for Read More

I’m delighted to present a first part of a tutorial on how to create epub ebooks, written by Paul Salvette. Formatting files for digital distribution might look difficult, but it’s good to give it a try – and Sigil seems… Read More

Long has my inbox-on both LinkedIN and Facebook-been filled with inquiries on various ePub creation software, especially regarding two specific platforms: Sigil and Calibre. Both are free, open-source creations of unselfish and brilliant folks that saw the eBook industry coming… Read More

A new tool launched yesterday, and it promises to make it easier to create Kindle eBooks. Kindle Writer, a product of Tekline Publishing, is designed to support all the stages of making a Kindle ebook.  This app is similar in… Read More

Disruptive Innovations, developer of the BlueGriffon website editor, posted a teaser on its blog yesterday. It plans to release a new stand-alone version of BlueGriffon in the near future which will support creating new Epub as well as editing Epub… Read More

Picture: © Janaka Dharmasena This post is designed to give you a concise, yet comprehensive preview of most important free tools you can pick up to publish and promote your e-books. I hope it will help you discover the ones, … Read More

In order to look beyond the PDF and towards the general use of eBook technologies for the distribution of everyday documents, the files need to be as simple to create as PDFs. It will only be then that people who… Read More

A new version of the open source Epub editor Sigil was released earlier this week. You can now use Sigil to edit not just the text and formatting of an epub eBook, but the spine files as well.It also has… Read More

Episode 27 - Todd Sattersten First A big thanks to everyone in Japan and New Zealand who have been listening over the last few weeks. You guys rock! Feedback Scott Weber: “what is the best way for a writer to… Read More

Most struggling authors trying to get published think that anyone with a publishing deal has got it made. I know I used to. While that can be true in rare cases, most often the life of an author – especially… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-143.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:41 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Three discoveries about InDesign to eBook conversions TextWrangler opens ePubs Sigil's housekeeping is a feature-not-a-but Kindle Previewer runs KindleGen for your…… Read More

This post (and others that will follow) is for people who have decided that rather than let Pages do the ePUB conversion, or InDesign, or any other program, they want to convert their original Word doc or similar into XML… Read More