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Storybook - No. 1 Open Source Novel Writing Software

Storybook - No. 1 Open Source Novel Writing Software

30+ Tools For The Amateur Writer NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is almost upon us. On November 1st, brave souls everywhere will embark on a month long endeavor to write a story of at least 50,000 words. We've gathered 30+ tools to help those folks who want to try their hand at it. Collaborative Writing Coventi.com - A site offering several different packages, with the cheapest being free for the personal user. Google Docs - Part of the Google suite of products, which enables you to invite others to work with you on a document. Glypho.com - Put down the basic idea of your story, get a plot and character suggestions. Novlet.com - Collaborative writing where you write just a couple of paragraphs at a time. Portrayl.com - A site that lets you write one chapter at a time, and when done, release it as a PDF. SynchroEdit.com - A browser-based editor that allows multiple users to edit the same document at the same. WideWORD.net - Create a secure document online and then pick who can look at it and participate. See also:

How to Publish on Smashwords Publish your ebook to Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OverDrive, Flipkart, Oyster, Scribd, Baker & Taylor's Blio and Axis360 (libraries!) and more Earn 60% of List Price from Major Ebook Retailers and 85% Net at Smashwords.com Smashwords Highlights: We make ebook publishing fast, free and easy! Getting Started is as Easy as 1-2-3: Sign up for your free account. Access These Powerful Publishing Tools from the Smashwords Dashboard: Centralized Metadata Management - This is a huge time saver. Smashwords for Authors, Publishers and Literary Agents Smashwords is the world's largest, and the original, ebook distributor for indie authors. Don't hassle with direct uploads to retailers. Within minutes of uploading your book to Smashwords, it's featured for sale on the home page at the Smashwords store. From your Smashwords Dashboard, you control all aspects of your publishing. This centralized publishing and metadata management is a huge time saver for writers. Literary Agents! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Platforming Books — by Craig Mod Physical + Digital If you buy the physical edition, let us know and we’ll send you the digital bundle for free. And, of course, if you’ve purchased a physical copy in the past, we’ll happily send you the bundle, too. Just mail us: support@prepostbooks.com Landing here When we announced an ‘iPad edition,’ we made a very conscious decision not to say ‘iPad application.’ Think back: In May 2010, the iPad had just been released. It took a few months of full-time work but we shipped the books. App what? Fall of 2010 arrived and the more we looked into developing a custom app for Art Space Tokyo, the less rational it seemed. By this time, several major publishing houses had released magazine applications. To worsen matters, the navigation was confusing — each application a little different. In fact, the more we looked at these frankenstinian magazines, the more we realized that a PDF would be a better solution. Simple PDFs What out-of-the-box advantages do you get with PDFs? No development cost.

Self Publishing and Free Distribution for Books, CD, DVD PDF Specifications We support PDF v1.4 and lower. Embed all fonts and images in your PDF file prior to submission. Submitted PDF files should not contain bookmarks, comments, invisible objects, or metadata. PDFs should be optimized. Common Points of Failure Layers and transparencies should be flattened in the PDF file. Cover Page Size Covers should be submitted on either an 18” x 12” or 19” x 13” page depending on the book’s trim size and page count. If the trim size is between 4” x 6” and 8.25” x 10.5” and the interior page count meets the following specs, please submit the cover on an 18” x 12” page: If the interior is black and white and the trim size is between 4” x 6” and 8.5” x 11.69”, or the interior is color and the trim size is between 4” x 6” and 8.5” x 11,” and the interior page count meets the following specs, please submit the cover on an 19” x 13” page: Cover FormattingCovers should be centered left to right on the spine. Spine Measurements for Black & White Books Page Size

How to extract text from images: a comparison of 10 free OCR tools Printing text to paper is done every day; on some occasions however the reverse is needed – getting the original text back from a scanned image or photograph, for further editing and use. This conversion is named Optical Character Recognition or OCR for short, and it can convert scanned books and documents into editable text, to get editable text from PDFs created via scanning, or even get text from screenshots and images. There are a variety of tools available for character recognition and some of them are free to use. This article will help you find and choose between several free OCR tools. Note: this article was last updated on June 18th, 2013. This update added a host of additional tools that offer free OCR functionality, many of these we found through reader comments, so thank you for helping us make this article better. Online OCR services vs. desktop OCR software Selecting the right OCR tool depends on your specific needs. Part 1: Online OCR software 1. 2. 3. 4. i2OCR 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

An Incomplete Guide to POD Publishers - Publisher Index Even though these days most POD publishers offer eBook publishing as an option, you may be better off considering both of these things separately... and as a result you may also want to steer clear of those publishers that bundle their eBook services with their publishing packages. There are two main reasons for this. The first one is that both kinds of publishing are different and call for different business models. The second one is that self-publishing an electronic version is a lot easier than self-publishing a printed one and even where going at it completely alone is not an option (as is the case with Apple's iBookstore), there are outfits out there that are geared specifically towards this end and offer you what are in essence much better deals. On the legal (down)side of things, beware of the fact that most of the services listed below reserve the right to revise the terms of their user agreements whenever and however they see fit and that does represent problem.

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