Most ebook production programs offer only output to the epub format and do not cover mobi. One of the great things about Jutoh is you can compile and output for a wide range of ebook formats, including mobi (used by Amazon) and epub (used by most everyone else). Jutoh’s way of working, which is similar to most ebook production software, is to split a book file into sections or chapters, according to whatever criteria you set, so you’ll have a series of chapters which will be compiled into an ebook. It originally specialised in odt files imported from Open Office. Although Jutoh imports a lot of file formats, it doesn’t import doc files but its preferred import format is docx, so you can use Word. The general way of doing things is to write your book using a word processor such as Word or Open Office and then import that file into Jutoh. I often use it now to build a book from the beginning, writing the book within Jutoh, although this really isn’t what it’s designed for. Jutoh isn’t the easiest program to use initially as it doesn’t have the familiarity of some software but once you’ve used it a few times you’ll get the hang of it.Įbooks are basically HTML (or XHTML) files and Jutoh could be thought of as being a powerful HTML editor with CSS capabilities and word processing thrown in. There’s a free book, called Creating Great Books With Jutoh which is a very good and complete guide to using the software. It’s very reasonably priced at £24 and has versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. The main program I use is Jutoh, which is brilliant software produced by an independent company, run and programmed largely by one man, Dr Julian Smart. I’ve never used this way of conversion as I prefer to build books myself so I’m sure they’re going to look like I want them to look but a lot of people do just upload their doc files and seem happy with the conversion results. The most basic way of doing it is to use Word or Open Office to produce a doc or docx file and upload that to Kindle Direct Publishing or a distributor such as Smashwords or Draft2digital which will do the conversion for you. Using a word processor and uploading for conversion A lot of people ask me what’s the best way to produce ebooks so I thought I would set out here a few ways of getting the job done.
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