Re: Advisability of doing an e-book in Word

What kind of outputs do you need? EPub? EPub3? Amazon? Do you have a cover
already? ISBN?

Also very important: What is the format right now?

The more details you give me, the best is the recommendation I would be
able to put out ...

Paulo Ney
On Nov 14, 2014 5:30 PM, "[email protected] [ebook-community]" <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> I have about 7 charts in my e-book, approximately 15 photographs, and need
> an index. Some of the charts and photos may need to be resized and that I
> have no experience with. I am also under a deadline and do not have the
> time or patience to learn new programs. Maybe for my next book . . .
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>  So, what would you do if you were me?
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>  William A. Gordon
> Publisher, North Ridge Books
> Editor, "Gordon's Radio List"
> Editor, "1,001 Tips for Writers"
> www.nrbooks.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulo Ney de Souza [email protected] [ebook-community] <
> [email protected]>
> To: ebook-community <[email protected]>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 3:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Advisability of doing an e-book in Word
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>   E-boks have been produced in all sorts of packages, including Word,
> TeX, InDesign, iBooks Author, on-line suites and dozens of others packages.
> In fact, it is easily to believe that MOST ebooks in the world started
> their production in MS Word.
> The most suitable workflow for you book depends on the peculiarities of
> the book itself -- figures, tables, dynamic content, automatic
> indexation... and a host of other features...as well as you requirements
> and output formats.
> Paulo Ney
> On Nov 14, 2014 4:39 PM, "[email protected] [ebook-community]" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>  Has anyone here even done or seen an e-book that was done in Word?
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>>  I am curious about the advisability of skipping over the conversion
>> process and going straight to SmashWords or another company. I would
>> suspect it would be cheaper, but would the final e-book look sufficiently
>> professional?
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>>  William A. Gordon
>> Publisher, North Ridge Books
>> Publisher, "Gordon's Radio List"
>> Editor, "1,001 Tips for Writers"
>> www.nrbooks.com
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