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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Here is what friends of mine that self publish books do: They have downloaded and installed Calibre and Open Office (oppenoffice.org). They write the book in MS Word format then use Open Office to translate it to PDF, they then use Calibre to translate the PDF to Amazon's native format as well as several different langueges including: Spanish, German and Chineese. Frequently they will also translate the book to epub format as well. They will then post the results on Homestead.
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That seems awkward. Usually, it's preferable for PDF to be a final format (or for printing), not an intermediate format.
I would: write in OpenOffice, export HTML, and use the HTML as the intermediate to the desired formats to be offered. I'd skip Word altogether unless the publishing platform required it.