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Originally Posted by anamardoll
What, really? You can't submit an ePub to Smashwords?? That's... a problem for me. Word-to-Epub conversion isn't clean -- I've been tweaking my book in Sigil religiously. I don't want Smashwords' Word conversion to trod all over that.  |
Nope, they only accept MS Word files at Smashwords. They use that to convert the file to the various e-book formats. Like you, I would
much prefer to tweak the HTML and produce an ePub
exactly the way I want it to look. Some Smashwords books look okay, but I've seen others with messed up formatting, missing covers, etc.
If you're planning to submit to Smashwords, you'll want to read their free
Smashwords Style Guide. It explains how the MS Word document has to be formatted.
I think I'm probably going to submit the ePub to Barnes & Noble's
PubIt directly, and then submit MS Word to Smashwords for ePub distribution to Apple, Sony, Kobo, etc. It's going to be a lot of work preparing the files, though. I'm probably going to have to "nuke" the MS Word file and reformat everything. It's pretty frustrating. I have a good HTML file that would need only minor tweaking for ePub since I used that to produce the .prc I submitted to Amazon for the Kindle version. They don't make it easy!