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 part of Kindle...
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Category: ebook tools
PublishDrive Launches an eBook Production Tool
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 new tool to...
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I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly
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 to share my...
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Fifteen Apps That Help You Make eBooks
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 to a single distribution...
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Kindle Create Lets You Make a Kindle eBook From a Word File
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 week for Windows...
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eBook Library App Calibre Turns Ten Today
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 that he could...
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U-Cal Press, Calif. Digital Library Partner to Build Open Source Academic Publishing Platform
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 publishing, for example,...
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Amazon Releases New Kindle Publishing Guidelines, Kindle Previewer
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 web features like hyphenation...
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How to View Epub, Kindle eBooks in OSX Quick Look
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 one's PC to...
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Sigil Gets Closer to Epub3 Editing in Beta Release
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 change. The developers...
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EpubCheck 4.0 Released
EpubCheck is the industry standard tool for verifying whether Epub files meet the official spec. The new version was made available to download on Github yesterday both as source code and as a compiled...
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What Are the Best SpellCheck and Grammar Check Browser Extensions?
We're still quite a ways away from IBM's Watson Tone Analyzer growing into a developmental editor bot, but luckily for us simpler tools are very common. Gizmodo has a post up...
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IBM Watson Tone Analyzer Could be the First Step Towards a Developmental Editor Bot
Writers have all sorts of automated tools at their disposal, including spellcheck, grammar check, word macros, Draftback, and (one day, hopefully) bots, and IBM wants to add another tool...
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Aeneas is An Open Source Tool for Syncing Audiobooks and eBooks
Amazon's Whispersync for Voice is one of the niftier features for the Kindle platform. It lets you easily switch from an ebook to a matching audiobook and back without...
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Kindle Textbook Creator Now Lets You Embed Audio & Video
Amazon released the first major update for their three-month-old textbook creation app today, and it's finally getting useful. Kindle Textbook Creator still accepts only PDF as the source file, and it's...
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