Hello Everyone,
My goal is to upload 2 or 3 books to amazons ebook catalogue. I did a bunch or reading and after realizing all the complications from different formats, coding, conversions, i decided to try and find a simple streamlined approach.
1) Cut and paste my text into Textwrangler
2) Markup the text using html and created a seperate .css file
3) Import file to Calibre and export to mobi. During this process i add metadata, cover image, and TOC.
4) Preview on my kindle and kindlepreviewer
5) Upload to amazon, uncork champagne
The question is whether my workflow is efficient? Are there any redundancies or am i missing important steps to completing a well structured ebook? Are there better tools than Textwrangle and Calibre? Should i be using a more sophisticated html editor? Also, is there any reason to use KindleGen in my process?
Any advise on my process, or perhaps sharing your own, would be greatly appreciated.
PS I am on a mac running osx
Many thanks
N.