eBook Formatting, Designs and Examples
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Is Your eBook Not Cooperating?
But what if you're using Pages? What if you're using some other writing system, or you simply don't want to know HTML? Does that make you a bad person? Of course not, don't be silly. We can help you with this and make sure that your eBook looks and feels, and channels your paperback, too, whether we do your paperback layout, or someone else does. We can work from Word, Pages, other word processors; from PDFs, and from InDesign. You-name-it, and we can work from it. Don't hesitate to ask us if we can provide you with a quote.
Stop the pain--come check with us to see how easily this can all be done for you. You're a writer, a publisher--not a web designer or coder. Let us help you.
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Frequently-Asked Questions:
About eBooks
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What's an eBook, anyway? In its most basic, fundamental form, an eBook is really nothing more than a portable website, that can be used on a device that is not connected to the Internet. That's it! See? Not so scary, right?
Ebooks are made up of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), just like a website. Now, today's websites, like this one, boy, they have a lotta lotta fancy stuff--sliders, banners, rotating text and all sorts of flashy effects. While it's true that ebooks are still pretty simple, today, in 2023, you can do a lot that you couldn't do ten years ago. HTML tables, figures, footnotes that pop up to be read, (wowzers!), text kerning and leading, linked indices, embedded fonts, and more. It's pretty exciting stuff.
We design our ebooks (look to the right for more detailed explanations around what these are) to work for the marketplaces and vendors where you'll be publishing. We format these to the highest, not the lowest, standards. Unlike many companies that call themselves formatters, we don't work to the lowest common denominator--we work to the highest achievable standard. In 14 years now, we have never--not once!--had a Kindle Quality Notice for formatting or eBook performance. Not one, In more than 7,000 eBooks completed and selling on Amazon (and other vendors too, of course).
You can use our eBooks at Amazon/KDP, IngramSpark, B&N's NookPress, Lulu, Lightning Source, Draft2Digital, and all eBook distributors out there. If there's some business that won't take ours, we don't know about them.
Let's be clear--we are not your publisher. We are providing you, the publisher, with the tools and materials the completed, ready-for-upload files, that you need to publish at KDP, Ingram, etc. You'll own the files entirely. They're not ours. We aren't paid by you, out of your royalties or "the back end." We don't hold your files hostage. You are the publisher--we work for you. Unlike many companies online that charge 3-5x what we do, just for formatting and uploading your files, we're not taking significant fees from you for what are--let's not beat around the bush--pretty simple services (by which I mean, uploading, which takes someone who is experienced about 5 minutes!).
"EPUB" means "Electronic Publication," which most folks probably guess long before they read this. ePUB is supported by many readers, and compatible software is avaiable for most computers, tablets, smartphones and eReaders. The IDPF, the International Digital Publishing Forum, adopted ePUB as the "official" ebook format worldwide, years ago (2007) and they regulate its development and standards. An ePUB is a special type of zipped file--a file archive, in other words--with one or two small unique files inside it, that tells the device or software that it's a book. That's really all there is to it.
