ALERT: E-Book Publishing Software at Discount on Tuesday

Publishing an e-book just got a lot easier.  InfoHesiveEP, an e-book publishing software, is now into version 2, and to stir up interest, the developer is offering it at 40-percent discount – $29.97, discounted from $49.95 — this Tuesday on Bits du Jour .  It certainly has caught my interest, and I personally am rather excited about it.

At the discounted price, InfoHesiveEP offers great value to writers.  I’ve just taken the software for a quick spin, and I like it a lot — all except for the strange name, that is.

The software essentially performs TWO tasks.  First, it will take in pre-existing documents in RTF, TXT, HTML and a few other formats and convert them into any one of a number of e-book formats that together cover all of the main e-book platforms in use today, such as PDF, ePub, and Mobi.  So if you have a completed manuscript, it’s simple to get it into an e-book format that you can upload to various online stores.

Second, the software is also essentially a stripped down word processor that allows for writing an e-book right within the software.  As a processor, it has a number of very appealing features.  In the left sidebar, one creates a hierarchical outline of the e-book.  Each outline topic becomes a separate section of the book.  I discovered that it’s also easy to play around with various page sizes, and one can choose between portrait and landscape orientation.  Within minutes, I created an outline for an e-book about playing the harmonica which I’ve had in mind for months, and I have also arrived at a perfect format for online reading, a medium page size in landscape format which shows the entire page on a computer screen.  I’ve just written the introduction within the software, setting up the default font and style for this emerging book.  Next, I’ll import a few RTF documents I’ve already written, containing about a third of the eventual book’s content.

As a final step, I will eventually choose to output this e-book in PDF format, more appropriate for online reading with its many links to YouTube instructional videos.  I also plan to add a page-turning facility to give it more pizazz.

As I work on this e-book, I will also have the comfort knowing that the software automatically keeps backups, with as many past versions as I wish, in case I need to roll back.  That alone is a very valuable feature.

There are some short-comings.  For example, don’t expect to turn out an e-book with fancy graphics.  Text does not wrap around photos or graphics, nor does the software support columns.  With effort, one can work around these shortcomings by manipulating tables — not a convenient or elegant solution, but at least one cam spruce up the layout a little bit.

There are other more powerful authoring software packages out there with substantially more control over a book’s graphic design.  But they are much more expensive.  Writers can also turn to online services such as Smashwords, which will convert your word processing documents into various e-book formats — but one loses a little bit of control over the e-book along the way.

Bottomline, InfoHesiveEP is another useful and affordable tool for writers seeking to publish their work.  At the discounted price, I think it’s definitely worth a look.  Go to Bits du Jour for more information about the discount and the software.  You can download the software in advance, but the discount itself is only available if the software in purchased on Tuesday, November 3.

I’ve already had an online chat exchange with Mike de Sousa,  a member of the development team, and he had this to say:

I think there’s an eBook in all of us – we’ve all got experiences, expertise, or creative work to share. My hope with InfoHesiveEP is that people take those nuggets of gold that too often lay hidden, and turn them into publications that enrich others. Even at the full price the program is more affordable than the overly-complex, developer based authorship tools out there.”

The software company behind the product, 2BrightSparks , is a well-established one with a high reputation.  At the company’s website, you will find a very informative article by Mike titled Publish to the Kindle, well worth a read.  You can read it online, or download it in e-book format of course, and it’s free.  Among the company’s other products is the very popular SyncBack package, which I once used frequently.

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