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Category: ebook tools
Kindle Create Now Outputs POD Book Files
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, and now they are...Continue reading
Amazon Has Retired KindleGen
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. Amazon has discontinued KindleGen....Continue reading
WordPerfect 2020 Adds Epub Export
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 to my post on...Continue reading
Reedsy Has Launched an Epub to Mobi Converter
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 weeks ago. I got...Continue reading
Pressbooks Updated with New Website Layout
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 is a WordPress-based site...Continue reading
Kindle Textbook Creator Merged Into Kindle Create
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 Create....Continue reading
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 my...Continue reading
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 criticism...Continue reading
Seventeen 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...Continue reading
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 and...Continue reading
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 use...Continue reading
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, the...Continue reading
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 and...Continue reading
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 manage...Continue reading