However, I have never seen a book where the font size suddenly jumped, where the font face suddenly changed, where indentations were all over the place or where paragraph adjustment switched from justified to left aligned halfway through a paragraph. I started reading books as a form of entertainment 35 years or so ago and to this day I have not once found a printed book that had formatting problems! Every book that goes to print is practically flawless, except for a typo, perhaps, or print issues such as ink blotting or somesuch production-line flaw. However, one thing I cannot forgive is poor eBook formatting, particularly if it is to the point that it becomes distracting from the actual reading experience, and sadly I have seen too many of these in recent memory. I can forgive many things in a book if I so please - stilted language, poor pacing, logical errors, uneven style, even the occasional typo. I will never again touch the book of an author who has made a bad impression on me by delivering a broken eBook that is clearly sub-par. If you’re anything like me, an author you’re not familiar with has one shot to prove himself to you. You did not get here just to break the first cardinal rule of book publishing:ĭon’t get sloppy on the home stretch! It will reflect poorly on your work.
You have labored over your book for months, maybe even years, you have read and re-read it countless times, cleaned out typos and grammatical errors, massaged the style and worked on the structure, grinding away in the wee hours of the night alongside holding a daytime job and maybe having a family. Don’t be one of those authors! It is a sad testimony in my opinion, and certainly not a valid excuse. They write their book, complete it and look for the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to deploy it. The first reason is that many authors simply don’t know any better. So, why are people using them? I have spent a lot of time thinking about this and observing how other authors approach their eBook publishing, and the more I examined it, the more I have noticed that there are generally two reasons for it.
Sure, anyone can write a document in a word processor, run it through some export tool, use a fully automated conversion utility or peruse the services of an online service, but the sad fact of the matter is that none of these approaches typically results in, what I call, production-level digital books.
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To me, one of the key elements that sets apart a professional eBook release from that of an amateur has always been the technical presentation of the book.
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