By Guido on
Over the past weeks I’ve been reading a number of non-fiction eBooks—don’t ask me, why, it just happened for some reason. The interesting thing is that I noticed a number of recurring eBook formatting problems that permeated virtually each one of these books, and I thought I’d touch upon the subject for a change. The problem in question revolves around… Continue reading "The case of disjointed word pairs – eBook Formatting Tip"
By Guido on
By now, I am sure you’ve heard that every device in the market has its own little quirks. Whether it’s not scaling images correctly, ignoring transparency, overlooking style settings in certain tags or some other weird behavior, the process of formatting ebooks across platforms is anything than straight-forward. Today I want to direct your attention to one issue in particular,… Continue reading "Custom fonts in iBooks"
By Guido on
On many occasions I’ve kept repeating that it is generally not a good idea to use word processors to export eBooks directly, and whenever I make that statement I am frequently greeted by push-back from authors who are perfectly happy doing it because it works for them. I guess the operative phrase here is, “works for them.” Exporting a clean… Continue reading "An example of Scrivener breaking your eBook output"
By Guido on
In recent days I’ve been visiting a number of message boards related to the indie author community. It is something I had not done in a long time. In over a year or two, in fact. The other day, however, I decided to take a look at some of the forums I used to frequent and realized that the amount… Continue reading "Whether it’s for Kindle or ePub—why you should never use an exporter for your eBook formatting"
By Guido on
The past months I kept myself busy completing a new book on the subject of eBook formatting, as many of you may know. I am happy to announce that the book is finally available! For only $5.99 you can now benefit from the years of experience I have had as a professional eBook formatter, learning the ins and outs and… Continue reading "<b>Zen of eBook Formatting</b> is now available!"
