Tips on Starting Your eBook
You should originally put your new eBook text into your word processor (MS-Word is the most widely supported) and add the formatting to make an attractive presentation. It is best to use the most basic and widely available font types: Arial, Courier and Times New Roman.
If you use a font that is not on the computer used by the reader another font may be substituted, with unpredictable results.
- In formats like Adobe Acrobat, non-standard fonts may be embedded into the document itself, making it much larger than necessary.
From your word processor you will be able to export a plain text version of your eBook if you so desire.
- Even if you do not plan to sell the plain text version, it is a good idea to create and save the plain text for future use. If the word processor you use becomes obsolete, its files may not work, but plain text is likely to be supported for as far into the future as we can envision.
The conversion process to go from your word processor version to other eBook formats varies depending on the conversion software.
- You may need to convert the text to HTML, and use that version to create the eBook; if so it is usually necessary to make changes to the HTML file generated by your word processor; those files are rarely accurate in converting layout elements, and very often have excessive and unwanted HTML tags.
