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Kindle Create Now Outputs POD Book Files

29 September, 202029 September, 2020Amazon, content creation, ebook tools6 Comments

Amazon just took another step towards complete dominance of the book market supply chain. The retailer could already handle everything from production to the retail sale,...

Amazon Has Retired KindleGen

4 September, 20204 September, 2020content creation, ebook tools, Kindle (platform)5 Comments

I was just catching up with the #ePrdctn tag over on Twitter when I read that Amazon has removed the KindleGen ebook-creation tool from its website....

WordPerfect 2020 Adds Epub Export

10 May, 202011 May, 2020content creation, ebook tools4 Comments

Don your jacket with puffy shoulders, because WordPerfect is back. The latest version of this office suite now supports Epub export. (Side note: I’ve added it...

Reedsy Has Launched an Epub to Mobi Converter

12 May, 201912 May, 2019ebook tools3 Comments

Amazon still won’t convert a user’s Epub ebooks to Kindle format, but luckily there are alternatives such as Calibre or the converter Reedsy launched a few...

Pressbooks Updated with New Website Layout

2 May, 20192 May, 2019content creation, ebook toolsLeave a comment

The online ebook creation tool Pressbooks.com was updated yesterday. I can’t see any changes to the admin pages, but the front-end looks a lot different. Pressbooks...

Kindle Textbook Creator Merged Into Kindle Create

31 January, 201931 January, 2019content creation, ebook tools, Kindle (platform)3 Comments

I just got an email from Amazon informing me that they have retired Kindle Textbook Creator in favor of Kindle Create. Kindle Textbook Creator is now...

PublishDrive Launches an eBook Production Tool

10 January, 201910 January, 2019content creation, ebook tools3 Comments

eBook distributor PublishDrive just launched their own ebook conversion tool. It takes in DOCX files and produces Epub and Mobi files. BTW, I also added this...

I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly

4 May, 201713 December, 2017content creation, ebook tools, Reviews, Writing63 Comments

I have just canceled my subscription to Grammarly’s writing tool, and after having sent a ranty email to Grammarly’s PR rep I thought it would be helpful...

Seventeen Apps That Help You Make eBooks

6 April, 201710 May, 2020calibre, content creation, ebook tools, Tips and Tricks32 Comments

Amazon may be quietly locking out its competition with ebook creation apps like the newly released Kindle Creator, but not all ebook creation apps tie you down...

Kindle Create Lets You Make a Kindle eBook From a Word File

6 April, 201712 June, 2017content creation, e-Reading Hardware, ebook tools, Kindle (platform)38 Comments

Amazon has launched a new tool that lets you make an ebook out of a Word file. It is called Kindle Create, and was released this...

eBook Library App Calibre Turns Ten Today

31 October, 201616 May, 2018calibre, ebook tools8 Comments

Ten years ago today a physics grad student at CalTech announced on MobileRead that he had reverse-engineered the USB driver protocols for the Sony Reader PRS-500 so...

U-Cal Press, Calif. Digital Library Partner to Build Open Source Academic Publishing Platform

2 May, 20163 May, 2016content creation, ebook tools, Education, PublishingLeave a comment

The consumer trade ebook market may get the majority of the press attention but it’s not the total sum of the digital publishing industry. In academic...

Amazon Releases New Kindle Publishing Guidelines, Kindle Previewer

8 February, 201618 March, 2016content creation, ebook tools, Kindle (platform)11 Comments

Do you like fancy ebooks? Then you should probably go somewhere other than the Kindle platform. But if you like your Kindle ebooks to have basic...

How to View Epub, Kindle eBooks in OSX Quick Look

5 November, 201519 June, 2017calibre, ebook tools, Tips and Tricks5 Comments

Calibre is a great tool for managing your ebook library. It has a lot of cool tricks, but sometimes one wants to use the file system in...

Sigil Gets Closer to Epub3 Editing in Beta Release

28 September, 20155 May, 2017content creation, ebook tools10 Comments

For the past ten months the open-source Epub creation tool Sigil has had an option to create Epub3 files, but only as a post-production conversion. Soon that will...