O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. Get Publishing E-Books For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform. If you use Word, you have no option to save your manuscript as an EPUB file instead, you save it as an HTML file and then convert it to both EPUB and MOBI by using another piece of software. The not-so-good news is that it takes a few steps to convert a Microsoft Word document into MOBI and EPUB files â it isnât quite as simple as PDF conversion (as described in Chapter 6).Ĭertain software programs, such as Adobe InDesign, allow you to save files in EPUB format, though you still need to use other software for the MOBI conversion. The good news is that after your manuscript is ready to convert into MOBI format, you can simply convert it to EPUB format, too. EPUB is compatible with most ebook readers and analogue apps MOBI is the format used exclusively by Amazon and is compatible with Kindle readers and apps. The two most common file types that e-readers use are MOBI (for the Kindle and for MobiPocket reader software) and EPUB (for everything else). Most e-readers can, theoretically, handle PDF files, but these files may not display well on the small, and often black-and-white, e-reader screen. Turning your e-book into MOBI and EPUB files using Calibre

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