For any writer,
publishing his book is a dream come true. With readers preferring ePubs over
printed versions, self-publishing has become easier. The availability of
certain open source tools help you to do the job swiftly and with ease without
having to rely on any professional service provider.
When you opt to
self-publish, there are more things you should do than merely writing your
book. When you are planning to publish the digital version in Epub format,
careful checking must be done so as to assure that it is properly created.
Also, if you have plans to sell the created book via Amazon’s Kindle library,
it must be converted to a format that is supported by Kindle. Two popular and
most effective tools for both are enumerated below.
ePubcheck
Proper
structuring is there for ePub files. Epub formatting service providers always
try to maintain structured chapters, supporting files and directories.
Regardless of the effort you take, few mistakes may always creep in. This make
validating you book important which see to it that the book has all those
elements that your reader expects in it. Few among those are complete metadata,
valid XHTML, table of contents and working links etc.
Validation can
be done easily using ePubcheck (a command line tool) and this is preferred by
most of the professional eBook conversion companies.
Ebook-convert
You have to
accept the fact that Amazon is the most popular and largest marketplace when it
comes to the digital publishing, selling or purchasing of eBooks. However, it uses a
format with .mobi as extension. For creating eBooks in this format, the
publishing tool used is Book Type. However, eBook conversion to .mobi can be
done using eBook convert which is another command line tool.
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