Ubuntu Musings» Blog Archive » Viewing and testing ebooks with Calibre. If you have any ebooks on your computer, you’ve probably heard of and maybe even used calibre to read those books.
While far too many people think of it solely as a desktop ebook reader, it’s actually a powerful tool for managing your ebooks. Having said that, calibre’s viewing features are better than pretty good. And since I’ve started writing and publishing ebooks, I’ve been taking advantage of those features to view how the EPUB editions of my books look and work. Let’s take a look at using calibre to view and test ebooks. Why use calibre? It’s a very powerful and flexible tool for working with ebooks. So, what do you do? Viewing ebooks As I mentioned earlier in this post, calibre does have a solid ebook reading feature. You can maneuver around the book using the controls on the left side of the e-reader window. That’s all well and good, but how does that help you test your ebooks? Testing your ebooks Notice that the toolbar on the left side of the window is missing? Fixing problems. Ubuntu Musings» Blog Archive » A look at a pair of useful LibreOffice extensions. One of the first applications that I used on the Linux desktop was StarOffice.
This was at a time when I was using a word processor extensively for writing … well, everything. Over the years, StarOffice morphed into the more familiar OpenOffice.org suite and (more recently) LibreOffice. While the suite still has a few quirks left over from its progenitor, there is one aspect of LibreOffice that I really like: it’s easy to extend it. And you don’t need to be a programmer to do it. There are a number of extensions available for LibreOffice that supercharge it. Ubuntu Musings» Blog Archive » Creating an ebook with LibreOffice Writer.
If you have an idea for a book, you’re no longer at the mercy of an editor at a big (or even small) publishing house somewhere.
Thanks to computers, we can all be publishers — and for more than just one day. Yes, you guessed it. ebooks are the great leveler. Or, at least, they can be. If you have a fairly recent Linux distro and LibreOffice Writer you can publish your own ebooks quickly and easily. OK, you’re probably thinking: using a word processor as an ebook publishing tool?
Thankfully, PDF isn’t the only ebook format in town. Free eBook Template for LibreOffice Writer (and OpenOffice) By markh, on May 31st, 2011 Share this: Here’s a simple stylish eBook template for use with LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) Writer.
I created it from scratch after being disappointed at the text styles and layout of the free templates I found online. eBook Template Description A stylish template for creating professional eBooks in LibreOffice Writer (or OpenOffice). Comes pre-configured to create a stylish ebook layout, including front page, table of contents (auto-updatable), chapter headings, header, footer etc. Make a professional and very stylish eBook in minutes, then use LibreOffice to make your PDF (with File/Export as PDF…) and you’re done. eBook Template Features Terms of Use The template file is protected by copyright, but free for use as follows: Kindle Publishing Guidelines - AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf. Selling eBooks on Amazon is so easy now! - Amazon Kindle Publish.
Convert text and ebooks to the MOBI format. Numilog (eBook) Ebooks libres et gratuits. Comment vendre ses livres numériques sur Amazon - Comment_vendre_ses_livres_numeriques.pdf. Amazon vous permet de devenir auteur avec KDP et sans aucun investissement. Amazon rend le métier d’auteur accessible à tous les passionnés d’écriture.
Grâce à internet, Amazon permet de devenir auteur assez facilement via la plateforme KDP ( Kindle Direct Publishing ). C’est une plateforme offrant l’opportunité aux internautes de proposer à des millions de clients leur manuscrit. Cette méthode se révèle être simple, rapide et surtout gratuite puisqu’il suffit de créer un compte sur le site Amazon.
L’internaute doit ensuite accepter le contrat et se lance immédiatement dans le métier d’auteur. S’il dispose de plusieurs ouvrages en version numérique, il lui suffit de cliquer sur le bouton « ajouter un nouveau titre ». L’auteur devra ensuite renseigner les droits et inscrire le prix, la plateforme s’occupe ensuite de tout. Kindle est une liseuse électronique, sortie en France en octobre 2011. En lisant ces quelques lignes, on s’imagine au creux d’un rêve. Ne laissez pas passer votre chance…commencez dès aujourd’hui à monter votre business Kindle. EasyPubliSoft. EasyPubliSoft.