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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I can't afford to hire anyone. So I have to learn to do things myself.
I'm also under no illusions that the automated versions SW and Amazon produce are fine examples of clean design. But I do find that if I supply them with a relatively clean input file, the output looks at least decent, and that's really all I can hope for with my budget.
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Lem:
Nobody, but nobody, has to tell me that publishing is a business. It has to make sense for everyone involved, or it doesn't work. That's why I say, I don't have any issues, whatsoever, with authors formatting their own work, assuming, naturally, that they do a decent job (so I can read it!). ;-)
And, yes: if you give KDP or SW a clean, well-formatted, Styled Word file, you'll get readable, decent output. It's no different than anything else "computer;" GIGO. I've said more than once that any author (for a fiction title, at least, or fiction-like in formatting) who is diligent with Word can create a perfectly viable and readable ebook at Amazon, NookPress (to a lesser degree) and Smashwords (to a more vanilla degree).
So: seriously, you needn't explain it to me. Scout's honor. Folks like you, I admire. You write AND you make. All good.
Hitch