Comments | seanan_mcguire: Help needed with e-book formatting.

seanan_mcguire

Help needed with e-book formatting.

Nov 23, 2011 09:02

Hello, internet world!

I have a short story that I'm intending to offer as a free download early next year, to celebrate the release of Discount Armageddon. This means I need the story to be in e-pub format. Anybody got the technical skills to make this for to go? I'll be your best friend, or something (or send you a book, whatever ( Read more... )

shameless plea, short fiction, incryptid

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scifantasy November 23 2011, 17:02:54 UTC

Sure.

seanan_mcguire November 23 2011, 17:15:14 UTC

Yay!

phantomess05 November 23 2011, 17:05:58 UTC

http://calibre-ebook.com/ I use this for e-book format conversions ^^ it's free and super nifty.

seanan_mcguire November 23 2011, 17:15:29 UTC

I really don't have time to do this myself right now, but thank you.

cow November 23 2011, 17:06:29 UTC

If you have access to a Mac (huh, looks like it's on Windows and Linux now too), you can use calibre; it will convert txt, doc, pdf, whatever to epub for you. (Or you can send it my way and I'll send it back.)

seanan_mcguire November 23 2011, 17:15:37 UTC

Thanks for the tip.

sleary November 23 2011, 17:08:03 UTC

Yes.

seanan_mcguire November 23 2011, 17:15:59 UTC

VERONICA MARS I MISS YOU.

...ahem. I mean, I may be covered, but I will keep you posted.

sleary November 23 2011, 17:26:22 UTC

LOGAN I MISS YOU. WAH. Although I'm looking forward to Kristin Bell's new show. Don Cheadle. MMMM.

I'm having a baby oh, any day now, so other coverage would be good, but ping me if you get stuck. :)

archangelbeth November 23 2011, 17:31:24 UTC

You're already covered, but I could certainly give it a stab. Not so sure about the internal dingbats; all the stuff I've done with Calibre or "paste into Pages, save as/export as EPUB" is dingbat-free.

...Now I'm going to have to play with dingbats in Pages, you know... O:>

seanan_mcguire November 23 2011, 18:11:18 UTC

Have fun!