to come up with two PDFs, one for the cover, the other for the book's interior, that will go off to Lightning Source for POD printing and distribution through Ingram into the Barnes & Noble computer system. This will be the end of Jutoh use for a while, as I move into the quagmire of page layout, headers, footers, font formatting, etc. ODT to Open Office Writer for the print version. Next step - output from the Jutoh ebook final, another. No more changes to the ebook version, it is done.
This marks the end of the ebook stage of my production process. So fast! And you can look inside it, so people can see the table of contents before they buy. And when I woke up this morning, there was my book on its own Amazon Kindle webpage. Late last night, after getting an ISBN assigned from Bowker, I clicked the 'Compile' button. Between the printout check and looking at a draft on my basic B/W Kindle 4, it's easy to then go back to Jutoh for correx and minor rewrites. I can spot typos and errors that I miss onscreen.
#JUTOH IBOOKS PDF#
but found that a paper printout via a PDF from an Open Office Writer file works better for me. Jutoh is an elegant writing tool - so many little touches that make content creation a pleasure.Īlso did some editing in Jutoh. Far, far faster than using a word processor! Kept it simple, only three paragraph styles - Heading 1, Heading 2, and Normal.
#JUTOH IBOOKS HOW TO#
How to earn significantly more that the US average family income, even while you are still single! How to leverage your talent – your drawing abilty – in different occupations where your visual communications skill adds great value. for me, this is a major work, lots of chapters, hyperlinks, and illustrations (used Xara, of course, for the cover art and interior pix).ĭrawing for Money is about making a very good living from art-related work. Published a new ebook today, Drawing for Money, on Amazon Kindle. Moral - if you're making an ebook for the B/W e-ink Kindles, forget about animation! The Kindle Fire is another matter, of course. mobi file (no luck) and then with the Kindle browser to the GIF on a test web page (no luck). Today, tested it with animated GIFs - first in a Jutoh.
#JUTOH IBOOKS UPDATE#
Update - My basic $79 Kindle 4 won't show Flash SWFs or Youtube Flash videos, using it's built-in browser.
#JUTOH IBOOKS ANDROID#
I think, if I were able to make apps, I'd probably do it for the Android tablets, so I could sell them myself. Glad to hear you are making iPad apps - that's neat! - can you sell them now from your own website, or do they have to be 'approved' by the Apple store? Have a friend here doing that and he had to wait a long time, a year ago, to get into it. Grant's memoirs, and am reading about the Mexican war.
mobi files that Jutoh makes, but also surprisingly good as a reader. I want my customers to be able to copy, paste, print, whatever. Also, Amazon lets me sell my Kindle ebooks without DRM - without encryption - which is very important to me. They both want access to my bank account, and Apple iBooks is now in a price-fixing scandal in Europe. you don't have to worry about fonts or formatting, since Kindle just puts your text in their own font anyway.Īm personally put off by Apple and B&N ebook schemes. For Kindle, you can just write the ebook in Jutoh. But my color images look great on the Kindle readers for PCs, Macs, iPads, and Android devices. The Kindle, which I'm developing for, won't show Flash or animated GIFs on the e-ink B/W screens. By simple, I mean paragraphs of text and still images, which I make in Xara. Jutoh is excellent for writing and compiling simple ebooks. but Jutoh's makes it so easy to get into Kindle, I'm becoming a convert to this sort of HTML-based ebooks. Way too much money, and way too complicated for me! Back then, PDFs were the best bet. As you say, it seemed like a hustle aimed at big-six publishers. Gary - yes, I checked out Digital Publishing Suite a year ago, when I wrote Self-Publishing Secrets.
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