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    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines
    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines
    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines
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    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines

    By Frank Sergeant

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    About this ebook

    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines is the third of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, and PDF Machine when making "camera-ready" PDF files for printing paperback books---the same system does all three---but we will usually refer to all three as just Mobi Machine.

    This book is a supplement to the two beginning manuals. If your main focus is novels and eBooks, one of the beginning manuals will cover everything essential.

    This third manual is for authors who, after reading one of the beginning books, want to go beyond the basic formatting or want to create a "camera-ready" PDF file for printing a paperback edition.

    For self-publishers, this system hits the sweet spot with the best combination of high quality, low cost, ease of use, and flexibility.

    What do you need? You need a computer with a web browser, a word processor or text editor, an internet connection, and a Nepo Press book account. You don't need to install any software. Your same manuscript will work for Mobi files, EPUB files, and PDF files, giving you "one-stop" formatting with nearly instant turn-around. Format your books on your schedule, not someone else's. No limit to the number of revisions, so fixing typos or changing your list of "Other Books by This Author" can be done whenever you wish.

    If you are using the Nepo Press service, or planning to use it, this is the "missing manual" for when you want to go beyond the basic formatting or create printed books from your same manuscript.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Sergeant
    Release dateMay 5, 2014
    ISBN9781311896346
    Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines
    Author

    Frank Sergeant

    I do a lot of eBook and print book formatting for Nepo Press. Because of this, I suppose, I am particularly sensitive to needless formatting and proofreading errors and do all I can to eliminate them. I think I have found a nearly perfect method for proofreading. The trick is this: if even a single error is detected, another full proofreading must be done. Simple, easy to understand, but nearly impossible to do in practice.

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      Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines - Frank Sergeant

      About This Book

      Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines is the third of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, and PDF Machine when making camera-ready PDF files for printing paperback books—the same system does all three—but we will usually refer to all three as just Mobi Machine.

      This book is a supplement to the two beginning manuals. If your main focus is novels and eBooks, one of the beginning manuals will cover everything essential.

      This third manual is for authors who, after reading one of the beginning books, want to go beyond the basic formatting or want to create a camera-ready PDF file for printing a paperback edition.

      For self-publishers, this system hits the sweet spot with the best combination of high quality, low cost, ease of use, and flexibility.

      What do you need? You need a computer with a web browser, a word processor or text editor, an internet connection, and a Nepo Press book account at nepotism.net/formatting (you can start with a free trial account). You don’t need to install any software. Your same manuscript will work for Mobi files, EPUB files, and PDF files, giving you one-stop formatting with nearly instant turn-around. Format your books on your schedule, not someone else’s. No limit to the number of revisions, so fixing typos or changing your list of Other Books by This Author can be done whenever you wish.

      If you are already using the Nepo Press service, or planning to use it, this is the missing manual for when you want to go beyond the basic formatting or create printed books from your same manuscript.

      Contents

      About This Book

      Introduction

      Part One - Advanced Formatting

      Headings and the Table of Contents

      Paragraph Indentation

      Block Tags, Literals, and Quotations

      Images

      Comments and Notes

      Drop Caps

      Small Caps

      Special Characters

      Time and Date Stamps

      Lists

      Links

      Additional Boilerplate

      Font Size, Subscripts, and Superscripts

      Style Sheets

      Custom Fonts

      Custom Classes

      HTML Snippets

      EPUB Validation

      Only eBooks versus PDF

      Templates

      Part Two - How to Create a Camera-ready PDF

      Introduction

      Generate Mobi and EPUB Files First

      The Minimum

      Front Matter versus Main Matter

      Limitations

      Running Headings

      Page and Book Size

      Font and Font Size

      Proof versus Final

      Even versus Odd Pages

      TOC Levels

      Lines That Are Too Long

      Line Breaks and Hyphenation

      Page Breaks

      Automatic Title Page

      Only PDF

      Page Numbers in the TOC

      PDF Summary

      Appendix

      List of Tags

      Text Editors

      Mac OS X Basics

      Linux Basics

      References

      About the Author

      Introduction

      This book is a supplement to the beginning books:

      Mobi Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler)

      EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler)

      You need to read at least one of them before starting on this book.

      The beginning books cover all the essentials for making eBooks for the typical novel.

      This book extends the basic eBook formatting information by discussing additional tags that might be helpful in certain circumstances.

      It also includes the information needed to make camera-ready PDF files for use in publishing and selling printed books through CreateSpace (or other print-on-demand services) and Amazon.

      The Sweet Spot

      As an author, you have many choices when it comes to eBook (and PDF) formatting, but we think this system hits the sweet spot, balancing quality, cost, effort, convenience, turn-around time, and flexibility.

      You could do it all yourself, working in raw HTML, but that is not nearly as pleasant or efficient.

      You could pay for custom formatting, but this is a lot more expensive and there might be limits on the number of revisions you can make.

      If you do either of the above, do you get higher quality? Not for the typical novel, and not unless you have specific and unusual requirements.

      How about turn-around time? Even if you pay for custom formatting, do you work at your schedule or your formatter’s schedule? With the Nepo Press system, the turn-around time (the time between uploading your manuscript and being able to download the eBook or PDF) is typically less than one minute. You can format in the middle of the morning or the middle of the night, or whenever you are ready, weekends and holidays included. And, you can revise at any time, re-uploading to your book account and re-formatting as often as you like, to fix typos or change the front or end matter, etc.

      Once you have tried this system, I don’t think you will ever want to do it any other way. That’s certainly the way I feel about it. I can work in raw HTML, but I prefer to let this system do all that for me—it’s a lot easier. Plus, the same manuscript works for both the eBooks and for the paperback book (through CreateSpace or other print-on-demand services).

      Getting Started

      Hopefully, you are already started. That is, you have read at least one of the beginning manuals and are now happily making either Mobi or EPUB eBooks or both.

      If you haven’t read at least one of those manuals yet, please do so before continuing with this manual.

      After starting to make eBooks, you might wish to exercise a little more control over the appearance of your eBooks—or you might want to make a camera-ready PDF for publishing and selling a printed book through CreateSpace and Amazon. That’s where this book comes in. It discusses the additional formatting tags and

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