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    EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)
    EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)
    EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)
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    EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)

    By Frank Sergeant

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    About this ebook

    EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler) is the second of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, and PDF Machine when making "camera-ready" PDF files for printing paperback books. The same system does all three. This book focuses on how to make EPUB files (eBooks) for the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK Apps, Kobo eReaders, Apple's iBooks---just about every eReader except Kindle---showing you everything you need to know to get started. If you want to create EPUB eBooks, this is the book to start with.

    For making Mobi files (for Amazon Kindle and Kindle Apps), start with Mobi Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler). These two manuals contain essentially the same information---once you have read one, you probably do not need the other. Pick based on whether your primary interest is EPUB or Mobi.

    After you have read one of these manuals, you are ready to make eBooks, but you'll probably want to read the third manual, Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines, eventually. It covers advanced formatting techniques including how to make "camera-ready" PDF files for publishing and selling printed books through CreateSpace and Amazon.

    For self-publishers, EPUB Machine hits the sweet spot with the best combination of high quality, low cost, ease of use, and flexibility.

    What do you need? You need a computer with a web browser, a word processor or text editor, an internet connection, and a Nepo Press book account. You don't need to install any software. Your same manuscript will work for Mobi files, EPUB files, and PDF files, giving you "one-stop" formatting with nearly instant turn-around. Format your books on your schedule, not someone else's. No limit to the number of revisions, so fixing typos or changing your list of "Other Books by This Author" can be done whenever you wish.

    If you are using the Nepo Press service, or planning to use it, this is the "missing manual" to help get you oriented and up to speed quickly.

    The trick is to add simple, visible markup to your manuscript then feed that to the EPUB Machine. The result is a professional looking eBook, without the formatting errors so commonly seen in self-published books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Sergeant
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310596797
    EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)
    Author

    Frank Sergeant

    I do a lot of eBook and print book formatting for Nepo Press. Because of this, I suppose, I am particularly sensitive to needless formatting and proofreading errors and do all I can to eliminate them.I think I have found a nearly perfect method for proofreading. The trick is this: if even a single error is detected, another full proofreading must be done. Simple, easy to understand, but nearly impossible to do in practice.

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      EPUB Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler) - Frank Sergeant

      EPUB Machine

      (Your EPUB Formatting Butler)

      Frank Sergeant

      copyright © 2012-2014 Frank Sergeant

      all rights reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      published by Nepo Press (http://nepotism.net)

      4th Edition, April, 2014

      (formatted May 01, 2014 at 05:43 PM)

      cover image credits:

      Woman With Angle Grinder Spraying Sparks (c) Can Stock Photo Inc. / jorgophotography http://www.canstockphoto.com/woman-with-angle-grinder-spraying-sparks-9093838.html

      For Juliette

      The companion book (Mobi Machine) was secretly dedicated to Amy. This book is dedicated to Julie, Amy’s darker sister. While Amy is writing and publishing for Amazon’s Kindle, Julie is very suspicious of eBooks, especially Kindle. She prefers to publish in a more universal format: EPUB. I love Amy and Julie, so I had to write a book for each of them.

      About EPUB Machine

      EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler) is the second of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, and PDF Machine when making camera-ready PDF files for printing paperback books. The same system does all three. This book focuses on how to make EPUB files (eBooks) for the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK Apps, Kobo eReaders, Apple’s iBooks—just about every eReader except Kindle—showing you everything you need to know to get started. If you want to create EPUB eBooks, this is the book to start with.

      For making Mobi files (for Amazon Kindle and Kindle Apps), start with Mobi Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler). These two manuals contain essentially the same information—once you have read one, you probably do not need the other. Pick based on whether your primary interest is EPUB or Mobi.

      After you have read one of these manuals, you are ready to make eBooks, but you’ll probably want to read the third manual, Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines, eventually. It covers advanced formatting techniques including how to make camera-ready PDF files for publishing and selling printed books through CreateSpace and Amazon.

      For self-publishers, EPUB Machine hits the sweet spot with the best combination of high quality, low cost, ease of use, and flexibility.

      What do you need? You need a computer with a web browser, a word processor or text editor, an internet connection, and a Nepo Press book account at nepotism.net/formatting (you can start with a free trial account). You don’t need to install any software. Your same manuscript will work for Mobi files, EPUB files, and PDF files, giving you one-stop formatting with nearly instant turn-around. Format your books on your schedule, not someone else’s. No limit to the number of revisions, so fixing typos or changing your list of Other Books by This Author can be done whenever you wish.

      If you are using the Nepo Press service, or planning to use it, this is the missing manual to help get you oriented and up to speed quickly.

      The trick is to add simple, visible markup to your manuscript then feed that to the EPUB Machine. The result is a professional looking eBook, without the formatting errors so commonly seen in self-published books.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      About EPUB Machine

      Preface to the Fourth Edition

      Note to Readers

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 -Your Manuscript

      Chapter 2 - Writing a Novel From Scratch

      Chapter 3 - Working With An Existing Manuscript

      Chapter 4 - Running The EPUB Machine

      Chapter 5 - Additional Notes

      Boxes

      Comments

      Drop Caps

      Ellipsis Marks

      Emphasis

      Forcing Line Breaks

      Hyphens and Dashes

      Images

      Indentation

      Manuscript Directories

      Mono-spaced Fonts

      Paragraph Alignment

      Quote Blocks

      Quote Marks and Smart Quotes

      Scene Breaks

      Small Quotes

      Appendix A - How to Get Your eBook To Your eReader

      Appendix B - Publishing Your eBook

      Appendix C - Tips

      Quotes curl in the wrong direction

      Tags incorrectly combined with body of paragraph

      Backing up your work

      Reading in a web browser

      Distributing the HTML version of your book

      Printing a hard-copy of your manuscript

      Word processor versus text editor

      Appendix D - List of Tags

      Appendix E - Word Processor Settings

      Appendix F - Windy Day Manuscript

      Notes and References

      About the Author

      Preface to the Fourth Edition

      The EPUB Machine has gone through several stages of evolution.

      The first generation required an author to (a) download, install, and configure several pieces of software, and (b) switch from a word processor to a text editor.

      Gentle (and not so gentle) feedback suggested that authors did not enjoy either requirement, although there were exceptions.

      In the next generation, we eliminated the need to switch to a text editor, but the burden of installing the software remained.

      Finally, in the current generation, that burden has been lifted. Instead of every author installing the software on his local machine, we install the software on the Nepo Press server. Now an author uploads his manuscript through a web browser, clicks a button, and downloads the resulting EPUB file.

      This has the additional advantage that the author never needs to re-install software to upgrade the system. We do all of that in a central location. The next time the author connects to the web site, the new software is available automatically.

      We wanted to make the Nepo Press formatting service as close to one-stop formatting as possible. Previously, an author could make both Mobi files (Amazon Kindle) and EPUB files (B&N, Apple, Kobo, etc.), but what about paperback books? The current generation solves that problem also. The touch of a PDF button now produces a camera-ready PDF for publishing paperback books through CreateSpace.

      So, the EPUB Machine is also a Mobi Machine and a PDF Machine, but the focus of this book is

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