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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
It's not that authors/publishers don't provide ePub (and other formats) because they want to exclude readers. It just isn't as simple as offering an e-book in Kindle format. Amazon makes the process very easy. Some of the other distributors certainly don't!
I started a separate thread asking where ePub users purchase their books. The answers so far:
- Barnes & Noble
- Kobo
- Baen
- Feedbooks
- Fictionwise
- Smashwords
Nobody's mentioned the Sony store yet. So then, the question becomes, which outlet do I choose? Someone's going to feel left out because I won't be including all outlets. |
I have shopped at all the stores mentioned and I also shop at Sony. Smashwords is my least favorite store and I do find myself being rather annoyed getting an eBook at say B&N that came from Smashwords.
I really don't like the quality of the underlying code from Smashwords' meatgrinder. I take my ePub and fix them to fit the way I like to read and Smashwords eBooks are a lot more work. So if you do submit to Smashwords, please put something in the description. I'd like to know to avoid.
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For my husband's Kindle book, I created a .prc file from HTML and submitted that to Amazon for the DRM-free Kindle version. It turned out great. But I'm going to have to tweak the HTML for ePub. For me, there will be a learning curve, as I've never created an ePub before. And I don't have a device to test it on.
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Adobe Digital Editions for Windows will do quite nicely to test your ePub. You can get Sigil and use that to convert your HTML into ePub. Or you can use Calibre to do the initial conversion and then Sigil for any tweaks.
When you get a nicely made ePub that's not made buy the meatgrinder, I'd be interested in buying a copy. I took a look at the description at Amazon and it sounds like I'd enjoy it.