There are new tools, new opportunities and new markets opening every day. (Or you can always email me if you want a new formatted book.) A word on changeĪs I mentioned in the blog post on the Digital Commerce Summit, we are living in a time of exponential change. If you have my books, you should be able to re-download new versions. The content hasn't changed, just the formatting. So right now, I’m currently re-publishing all my ebooks with Vellum versions to give them the same look and feel, plus I'm updating the back matter as I go.
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E asy peasy.Ĭlick here for my tutorial on how to format your ebooks and print books with Vellum Then I check the formatting on the various devices – which you can do within Vellum! Then I export to the various formats and upload to the stores. I use the formatting templates to add the back matter and check everything is beautiful, including adding the Ornamental Breaks to make the book look more professional. ( Here’s a video on how I use it).īut once the book is done, I export as a Word docx and open in Vellum. It’s an awesome writing tool and I love love love it. I still do all the writing and editing in Scrivener. When I get the changes back, I make them back into Scrivener. Then I export a Word doc to send to my editor. I write in Scrivener and do my own self-edits in Scrivener. I'm super thrilled to find a tool that specializes in formatting. By using Scrivener to format, I was trying to make that tool do more than one job.
I use a lot of online tools (here's a list), and each has one job. Preview the format on other devices within Vellum It's basically the best tool for the ebook formatting job.
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Their tagline is Easily Create Beautiful Ebooks, and that’s exactly what the software does.
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Paying a formatter is one option, but when you publish a lot and you like to update back matter and fix typos or issues yourself, then having control is more important. Who knows? But whatever it was, I needed to fix it.
Perhaps there was an update inside Amazon that interacted with the particular way my formatting worked. It was just a problem in the Look Inside Previewer. But in my Scrivener file and my KDP Preview, and even in the ebook itself, the formatting was fine. I checked and found that the spacing and alignment was screwed up. In the last few weeks, a reader reported that a couple of my books had a formatting issue with the Kindle Look Inside on. I’ve also been using Scrivener to format my ebooks for the last five years and that has been fine.
It is the best writing tool and I couldn’t imagine writing without it now.
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