Jo’s Comments (group member since Jan 24, 2013)

Jo’s comments from the Help with Book Formatting group.

I have added a group rule today about not selling your services within discussions, if there are people who would like to outsource their formatting I thought we should at least have a discussion solely for members to see who they can go to for help.

So, in this thread, please post a couple of lines (not an essay) detailing what you offer and your website address. Please don't advertise your rates on here, just basic information and contact details so members can make up their own minds.

Thanks!

Thanks for all your comments, lots of interesting formatting ideas.

Thanks for adding your books guys, I'll go check all of them out! :)

I thought we could all share our own eBooks (or paperbacks) here... still writing mine in my head, but hopefully one day! :)

Thanks for your comments JW, Maggie and John, again lots of different ways of formatting eBooks. :)

Sophie wrote: "Hi,

I write/publish eBooks.

I draft in Scrivener, but then I switch to MS Word for later versions of a book. The reason I mention Scrivener is because it does have eBook output formatting option..."

Hi Sophie,

It sounds like a complicated way of doing things, the reason I say that is both Amazon and Smashword's accept Word documents... can I ask, what difference is there if you do it your way? Are there benefits you don't get when using Word?

I use Mobipocket Creator and Calibre to convert, but never to convert for uploading to Amazon/Smashwords.

Meredith wrote: "I write in Kingsoft Office on my tablet. But I do my formatting in Word after I use the "nuclear option" mentioned in the Smashwords Style Guide of pasting it into Notepad to get rid of any autofor..."

Hi Meredith,

That's how I would format an eBook, although I copy and then paste special (unformatted text) into my eBook formatting template I set-up. It's pretty much the same as the nuclear method, removing all the existing formatting.

Tim wrote: "Hi Jo,
I use Microsoft Word 2010 and Adobe Acrobat Pro. Photoshop CS6 for images. Notepad++, Sigil, and Kindlegen for eBooks.

I'm interested in what people say about this. I get hundreds of book m..."

Hi Tim,

I use Microsoft Word, in Windows until I got my Mac last year. You seem to use a lot of different software, which do you prefer?

I plan on learning html this year for formatting, I don't know how that will alter the output I'm getting now with Word.

Please let us know what you use to format your books, it could be Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, Open Office... something else?