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Introduction

My Purpose My goal in writing this book is to give fellow authors an easy and cheap way to self publish their books in the major ebook stores as well as in paperback. These days there are tons of ways...

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Software

Software Before we get into formatting and preparing your book, let’s go ahead and install all the software that you’re going to need. My step by step instructions are going to mostly be for Windows...

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The Joy of Markdown

One of the skills that you’re going to learn as you go through this book is Markdown. What is Markdown Markdown is just a way to format text files, so that they are human readable and understandable....

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Getting your Work Into Markdown

Yes, you could write your book in a plain text editor using Markdown. And maybe for your next book you will. However, you are probably reading this book because you have already written your...

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Designing a Cover

Your book’s cover is probably going to be the most important piece of marketing it will ever have. And of course the quality of art is quite subjective. Lots of popular covers out there break the rules...

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Final Text Preparations

Now it’s almost time to generate the files you’ll be uploading to the various self publishing sites. There’s just a couple of things you need to do to your book’s text file first. Edit Your Book to...

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Build an Epub

Now it’s time to generate the epub file. You just wait to see how easy it is. Before you try this, make sure that you have pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ installed. Open a command window by...

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Build a Mobi File

Once you have an epub file, building a mobi file is easy. To do this, we’ll use a program called Kindlegen. It’s written and distributed for free by Amazon. You can download it from:...

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Build a PDF

This one is still in progress, but I thought it’d be useful just the same. There’s a lot that can be said about a book’s interior design, about fonts and gutters and ems and all that. If you are...

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Make a Wraparound Cover

This chapter will only be available in the paid version of this book.

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