June 24, 2014
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Not having website is as good as not having an identity in today’s world. This is especially true for Indie authors. You most probably do not have a huge budget for advertising your books. At the same time your success … Continue reading
February 20, 2014
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We had written about an issue we were facing while uploading our files to Kindle through KDP. We have been able to resolve that now. The older renderers for Kindle had weak support for some CSS features. The “Look Inside” … Continue reading
February 13, 2014
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Came across this thread on MobileRead Forum – ePub creation tools: what is missing? (wishlist/dialogue) So much to do! And so many conflicting expectations. The most perplexing issue is WYSIWIG editor vs. direct HTML editor vs. Markdown editor. It is … Continue reading
January 22, 2014
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It is unlikely that anyone using a computer today is not familiar with Microsoft’s ubiquitous word processor “Microsoft Word” (MS Word). It is used for wide variety of document creation tasks. Professional designers and printers will scoff at the idea … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
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The most important reason EPUB and Mobi came up as the widely accepted formats for e-books is their support for reflowing of text. This makes it easy and comfortable to read the content on devices of different screen sizes. Since … Continue reading
January 16, 2014
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InDesign is a desktop publishing software application from Adobe. It is widely used by designers and publishers for typesetting books and is almost an industry standard in publishing industry. As a publishing Software, it is much more feature-rich and involved … Continue reading
January 4, 2014
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In an earlier post, we talked about PDF as a file format for e-books. We discussed an important limitation of the format. It is a fixed layout format, which works very well for print, but not for e-books. Since reading … Continue reading