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avantman42 · 07-27-2011, 05:09 PM

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I publish to Smashwords, Amazon and Wargame Vault. They all get the same content, but they all want submissions in different formats, and I like to include links to other books/articles at the relevant site.

In other words, each book will have three different start and end sections. Initially, I wrote in OpenOffice, and edited the start/end sections manually to suit each shop.

Being a computer geek, I really wasn't happy with this - it is my firm view that computers are supposed to do the drudge work. I've now written a script that will allow me to write my content in HTML, and will create three different HTML files for the three different shops. Currently, the HTML files will have to be manually converted to doc/mobi/PDF, but I'll work on automating that part of the process later.

Does anyone else have a similar system? Or do you all just manually edit to suit each shop? Or do you only send your books to one shop?

07-27-2011, 05:09 PM	#1
avantman42 Wizard Posts: 1,090 Karma: 6058305 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Write once, publish everywhere This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I publish to Smashwords, Amazon and Wargame Vault. They all get the same content, but they all want submissions in different formats, and I like to include links to other books/articles at the relevant site. In other words, each book will have three different start and end sections. Initially, I wrote in OpenOffice, and edited the start/end sections manually to suit each shop. Being a computer geek, I really wasn't happy with this - it is my firm view that computers are supposed to do the drudge work. I've now written a script that will allow me to write my content in HTML, and will create three different HTML files for the three different shops. Currently, the HTML files will have to be manually converted to doc/mobi/PDF, but I'll work on automating that part of the process later. Does anyone else have a similar system? Or do you all just manually edit to suit each shop? Or do you only send your books to one shop?