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eBook Formatting Mastery - Learn How to Format Great Looking eBooks With FREE and Premium Software

Offered By: Skillshare

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Digital Publishing Courses Scrivener Courses

Course Description

Overview

In eBook Formatting Mastery, you will learn how to format professional looking eBooks, in both Kindle and ePub formats, using both free and premium software which will provide your readers with an enjoyable reading experience.

Nothing cries out amateur more for a self-published author than a badly formatted book.

At its worst, bad formatting can stop the reader from finishing your ebook and may even result in bad reviews.

Even ebooks with minor formatting mistakes can result in the reader being distracted from the world that you have lovingly created and jolt them back into reality, thus spoiling their reading experience.

In this course, you will learn how to give your readers the best reading experience possible by compiling professional looking eBooks within the writing tool, Scrivener.

You will also learn how to correctly format the all-important front and back matter of your books in Scrivener, how to create children’s illustrated books in the Kindle Kids Book Creator and how to format elegantly styled eBooks within Vellum.

Finally, you will learn how to validate both ePub and Kindle formatted books and check that they render correctly on a number of different devices.

Save time, money and countless hassle formatting your ePub and Kindle eBooks

Tired of spending all that time and effort manually formatting your eBooks?

Would you like to know how I easily and effortlessly format my books into different formats for publishing on the various online eBook distributors?

You will get an over-the-shoulder, step-by-step guide to Scrivener’s powerful Compile feature, where you will learn how to correctly use the different compilation options available and create correctly formatted books in both the ePub and Mobi formats.

By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently format your ebooks so that they render correctly on different devices and ensure that your readers enjoy the perfect reading experience.


Syllabus

  • An Overview of What You Will Learn from This Course
  • A Look At The Major eBook Formats
  • A Word About Manual Formatting
  • Front Matter and Back Matter and Why They Matter !!!
  • Setting Up Your Front Matter in Scrivener (Part One)
  • Setting Up Your Front Matter in Scrivener (Part Two)
  • Setting Up Your Back Matter in Scrivener
  • Overview of Scriviner's Compile
  • Installing Kindle Gen Within Scrivener
  • Scrivener Compilation Options: Contents
  • Scrivener Compilation Options: Separators
  • Scrivener Compilation Options: Cover
  • Scrivener Compilation Options: Formatting
  • A Walkthrough Scrivener's Compile
  • Preset Formats in Scrivener's Compile
  • An Overview of FREE Software for Formatting eBooks Depending on the Genre
  • A Look at the Kindle Kids' Book Creator
  • An Introduction to Vellum
  • Vellum Tutorial
  • An Overview of Validating and Checking the Formatting of an ePub eBook
  • Validating on the ePUB Validator
  • An Overview of Validating and Checking the Formatting of a Kindle eBook
  • Validating on the Kindle Previewer
  • Using the Send To Kindle application

Taught by

David ✏ Ault

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