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Smashwords Style Guide (2008)

by Mark Coker(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0000690120 (ISBN13: 2940000690123)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Smashwords, Inc.

review 1: I just read the book and really enjoyed it. I have not published a book yet and wanted to learn about formatting for e-books before I jumped into it to hopefully give me an edge and so, I haven’t put any of the tips into practice yet. The book is written in clear enough language that I understand what to do. There are a couple of things I didn’t understand as well but I think once I begin the actual formatting process the concepts will become clearer.You will need Microsoft Word to follow this guide. A really awesome thing Mark Coker did was to include written and screen cap instructions on how to do everything for versions of Word as old as 2000 up to 2007 so no one is left struggling.If you’ve never formatted your writing for e-books and feel lost, you should read ... morethis guide.
review 2: In my opinion this is one of the most important books in the entire history of the book publishing industry. This book is literally "the book that launched tens of thousands of authors and hundreds of thousands of books".The "Smashwords Style Guide" is a technical manual for independent authors. It is a guide-book for formatting ebooks that are sold at major online retailers and ebookstores.The author, and founder of Smashwords.com, Mark Coker, has developed a technology, called the "meatgrinder" which is able to format a Word document into multiple ebook platforms. This technology has revolutionized the entire book publishing industry. The "meatgrinder" is the digital equivalent of the "printing press" and may go down in book publishing history as being equivalent to it in importance.The ebook is a recent invention in the understanding of the book. In only a handful of years its popularity has exploded. Without the "Smashwords Style Guide" this explosion would have been impossible. That's how important this book is. less

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