I then add my style sheet to the folder labeled STYLE. It contains four lines similar to what Sigil provided, plus four lines of a new head section, including a link to a style sheet call epub.css. So I replace the opening lines with my own (which you can borrow from this blog). (Nothing wrong with leaving the placeholder there, though it does add a blank space.) Sigil does not provide a style sheet. Here's how I build an epub: I run a Word doc through online, open a new Epub2 file in Sigil, and paste the html right there, replacing the placeholder line between the two body tags. All one really needed to know was the paragraph tag, and some of us managed without even that. I discovered the web in 1992, using a dial-up modem to the local university's Unix mainframe. What we use in books is a whole lot simpler than what people now use to build websites. Any suggestions on other books or resources? Your book doesn't have enough detail on how that aspect of the process. It's looking more and more like I've got to learn publishing HTML if I go the Sigil route. (And also a Plan C, inĬase you're still not convinced.) The Guide is intended to be used inĪsked on the Kindle Community forum this morning: Template that you can adapt to your own book. It, but as a fallback I also provide Plan B - the Ultimate Basic It's simple enough that anyone should be able to follow I outline the process in ten steps, with screenshots of my progressĪlong the way. Way to format your e-book, creating a single file that can be uploaded
Web pages at heart.) Then I discovered the wonders of the free andĮxcellent Sigil software, which builds an "epub" of the sort used byĪmazon's rivals in the e-book industry. To Html, the markup language used to build web pages. I became an Amazon e-publisher in November 2007, uploading a few Wordĭocs to what was then called the Digital Text Platform. (And just to prove how easy that is, here's the paperback edition.)
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Now in its twelfth edition, Notjohn's Guide to E-Book Formatting includes a chapter on how to format a print edition of your book.