Though she began it to help authors, she quickly realize that she really enjoys formatting books. She later added her formatting services when she realized how complex this can be for some authors. Jay started Birds of a Feather Press in 2016 as an indie author resource site for travel writers and other nonfiction authors. If you want my recommendation, it’s below.īirds of a Feather Pressis run by the inimitable Jay Artale, an author herself and digital nomad. If you google book formatting you’ll get lots of options. So, no excuses for not knowing how to make it look good or work at Ingram.ĭON’T WANT TO USE SOFTWARE BUT STILL WANT A SPECIAL FORMATTING FOR YOUR EBOOK AND/OR PRINT BOOK? And they now will take that formatted print book and cover and load it to Ingram for you, too. They even have a cool print cover-maker to help you there. Of course, they hope you do, but it’s not a requirement.ĭ2D also has the ability for you to use that file and format it for print. In fact, you don’t even have to decide to use D2D to distribute the book. They will give you a preview so you can see what it would look like in an ereader. You simply upload your Microsoft Word document with your book and D2D will to magical machinations in the background to format it for you. That means you load your book with them and they deliver it to all kinds of distributors (e.g., Amazon, Apple, Barnes&Noble, Kobo, and many more). If you have a slow connection that could be frustrating.Įven if you don’t want to invest in software or feel really uncomfortable learning a new program, there is a still a way to get your book formatted in ebook for free.ĭraft2Digital is an aggregator. Another downside is that it runs on the Internet (in the cloud). One downside to Atticus is that it takes a little longer to learn because it has so many options. It has many more templates to choose from, and you are able to do some things in Atticus that are difficult or impossible to do in Vellum. It runs on the Internet, not as software on your computer. However, there is a large community of Vellum users and a good users guide.Ī software that works for both MAC and PCs that is similar to Vellum is ATTICUS developed by the Kindlepreneur crew with Dave Chesson. It is still my go-to software for the vast majority of my own books. The downside to it is that it only runs on MAC ios and that if you want to do something other than a straight narrative text, there are some tricks to learn to incorporate things like images, tables, graphs. It creates beautifully formatted books and is fairly easy to learn. I’ve used the software, VELLUM for nearly a decade. There are several ways for indie authors to get beautifully formatted books these days.
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