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Publish Your Own eBook
Going digital with your magnum opus.
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on April 4 against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Shuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Group. The suit concerns pricing, specifically the over pricing, of eBooks. The root of the pricing issue began with Amazon’s $9.99 standard. Some of the defendants have settled; some remain. All this led me to consider the technical side of eBook publishing. Could someone publish their own writing as an eBook? And the answer is yes. We’ll introduce these three tools to convert your text and images into an eBook: Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite, Apple’s iBooks Author, and Literature & Latte’s Scrivener. Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is part of Adobe’s InDesign CS5.5. I’d put this one at the high end in …
Chris Robley
5:33 pm on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Lydia, great article. I wanted to weigh-in with one other option available to people who want to publish an eBook: BookBaby, the world's largest eBook distribution network for independent authors. For $99, we'll take your book file (Word, .txt, etc.) and convert it into a beautiful eBook that will be available for iPad, Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, Kobo, Copia, eBookPie, Baker & Taylor, Gardner's, … more ›