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mtucker57 · 06-25-2011, 08:34 AM

Hi, Everyone,

This is probably just a newbie failure, but here goes…

I self-publish a lot of stuff. So far I've just used PDF to do so. Naturally, I'd like to go to epub as well.

I downloaded Calibre and I've successfully turned some of books into epub files (I turned them into html documents first and then converted). Then I saved the material to disc.

Then I went to lulu.com and tried to uploaded the epub file to the server. I got an error message saying that the epub file was flawed and couldn't be used.

I know I'm just doing something wrong and there's a simple answer to this question.

Anyway, has anyone had experience doing this sort of thing? What's the right way to do it?

cheers
mjt

06-25-2011, 08:34 AM	#1
mtucker57 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: none	trying to publish epub -- a newbie/luser story ;-) Hi, Everyone, This is probably just a newbie failure, but here goes… I self-publish a lot of stuff. So far I've just used PDF to do so. Naturally, I'd like to go to epub as well. I downloaded Calibre and I've successfully turned some of books into epub files (I turned them into html documents first and then converted). Then I saved the material to disc. Then I went to lulu.com and tried to uploaded the epub file to the server. I got an error message saying that the epub file was flawed and couldn't be used. I know I'm just doing something wrong and there's a simple answer to this question. Anyway, has anyone had experience doing this sort of thing? What's the right way to do it? cheers mjt