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Originally Posted by Foolness
Been out of the loop for a long time (more than 3 months) but I recall Sigil/Calibre could produce an epub, tedious as it may be. Is this still the only free alternative?
I actually prefer manually writing an e-book using the GrabMyBooks firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...n/grabmybooks/ but unfortunately it has a nasty habit of not having autosave and it is mainly for text based website and it still takes too many steps but at least I am able to deal with pages rather than the normal scrolling of word processors.
Audience-wise, how has the landscape changed?
I primarily write fiction but haven't published any and I also plan to release a blogbook non-fiction by the end of the year but everything appears to become more like a closed gated community what with Kobo not appearing to have gotten much headway in terms of delivering a cheaper Paperwhite and the tablet community having their own "hard to discover" sets of Play Books and IBooks ... I guess what I am asking besides the software question is whether this is a bad time to release a book?
(Marketing can always fix this but compare the boom of new blogs like Kinja and the recently updated Medium versus the dry spell that is mass buying of cheap e-books...I would rather wait for the right time but I might've missed a major news. I simply skimmed the new posts and the today's posts and this is the only active forum I know for questions like this.) |
There, if you're looking to do it cheap then you can do a lot of the basework yourself. I used this
guide for mine, there is a part II as well, it was loads of help for me as an amateur publisher. Hope that helps!