If you’re looking for a free alternative to costly word programs, or to paying high fees to have someone format your book for you, look no further than this easy to use, do it yourself, alternative.
Using this simple guide not only can you format your book for EPUB for free, you can also easily format your book for free into the MOBI (Kindle) format suitable for publishing on Amazon’s Kindle Store, and for reading on Kindle devices.
This guide has been written to assist you in creating a valid, nicely formatted EPUB and/or MOBI (Kindle) file using the free open-source office suite program Apache OpenOffice—a program most simply refer to as OpenOffice. Using OpenOffice to format your book is a free and easy way to make your book available online.
By following the simple steps in this book, you will finish with a valid EPUB and/or MOBI (Kindle) file for free; EPUB being the official e-book publishing standard when uploading content to major digital e-book distributors and retailers—outside of Amazon which utilizes the MOBI (Kindle) file format.
This guide also features over 50 images to help you along, plus additional free programs and online apps to assist you in not only formatting your book into a valid EPUB and/or MOBI (Kindle) file, but also in optimizing any images in your book, ridding your book of any unwanted formatting, proofreading your book in an e-reader, and much much more.
