Re: eBook Numbers and Prices

**l*@juno.com**

 I know less than nothing about the various softwares, but BookBaby
http://www.bookbaby.com/pricing2 just came across my desk yesterday.
Haven't had time to check it out, but you can buy the services you need a
la carte, and they will convert your book from Word, Pages, Rich Text,
HTML, or PDF into ePub or Kindle formats.

Regards,
Lois

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:07:17 -0400 Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com>
writes:
> Betty -
> 
> As for software etc to convert to the different platforms, people 
> make it
> really, really difficult. :-)   If you're a Mac - Pages outputs to 
> both
> epub (for Apple, etc) and doc files (Amazon)   Get the Kindle 
> previewer
> from Amazon to check how your doc file looks. Modify the raw file to 
> look
> good in one of the file formats and then modify it again to look 
> good in
> the other if there's an issue with the way you've laid it out.   If 
> you're
> a Windows - output to a doc file.  And buy Scrivener ($49) to output 
> to
> epub and review files. (I don't know about other Win options but 
> that's a
> quick and easy one.)  You can then direct upload to all platforms.  
> There's
> a learning curve around images etc (Download the free Smashwords.com 
> author
> guidelines and read the help files on all retailers ) but once you 
> figure
> that out, you're good to go yourself with no added costs.  And ibook 
> Author
> from Apple is a free download if you want to go the highly 
> interactive
> route.
> 
> So it's fairly cheap and easy to get into e-publishing from the
> software/technical points.  But like anything else (and you know 
> this) it's
> the marketing that makes the cash register sing.
> 
> Doug
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