For the past few days, I have been editing my manuscript and reviewing it with a fine tooth comb. Now I am formatting the text and getting it ready for eBook and print publication.
I
must say, I have a newfound appreciation for people involved in the nuts and
bolts of pagination. Getting the
margins, indentions and spaces exactly where you want them is a fine art. I spent all day Wednesday fine-tuning the title pages and eliminating unwanted blank lines within the body of the text. When several different methods refused to
solve the problem, I turned to HTML coding.
Why
HTML? Kindle and Nook require scalable
formatting. Starting with a very clean
Word Doc (and I mean spotless), you Save As a web page and then insert
appropriate coding via NotePad. Using
Caibre software, the HTML document is then formatted as an EPub for Nook and
MOBI for Kindle. These files can be
uploaded to their respective websites for testing.
Okay,
so I made it sound easy. Trust me, for a
novice like me, it’s not. Fortunately, I
managed to stumble my way into two satisfactory files.
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