Do-It-Yourself E-Book Conversions

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It used to be that saving your book manuscript to PDF format was sufficient for writers aiming toward self-publishing.  That works just fine for many Print-On-Demand companies.

E-Books are different, with the open-standards ePub format emerging as the most widely applicable format and with Kindle’s proprietary format gaining popularity to match the success of the Kindle Reader.

Smashwords offers a good route to getting your manuscripts into the approriate formats, ranging from POD to e-books.  But you can do much of the conversion yourself with the software PDF to ePub.  It’s not cheap, but for the prolific writer — or perhaps a writers collective — this software may make sense.  In its most recent version, this software can also turn out conversions into Kindle format as well.

Check out the details at the PDF to ePub website.  You’ll also find on the site some links to other interesting software by the same company.

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    Comment by
    Armansky
    29 Dec 2009

    "Check out the details at the PDF to ePub website."

    pdf to epub for $150? it's nonsense
    use Calibre instead, it's free
    or online converter http://2epub.com

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    Comment by
    Graham Storrs
    14 Jan 2010

    I used Calibre myself a short while ago and it worked just fine.

    I've also been using Mobipocket Creator (also free) to make .PRC and >MOBI files (for the Kindle) from HTML (save from Open Office or Word as HTML, then run your .HTML file through Mobipocket Creator. It's very easy.

    And the easiest, free, way to get PDF files is to use Open Office (which I use all the time instead of Microsoft Office anyway) and export to PDF.

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