I’ve uploaded the final copy of my E-Book. Feel free to download.
Unless I (or someone else) finds goofs, this is the final copy.
Please leave comments. If you don’t understand something, let me know and I’ll fix it. If you think something might be missing, ask me about it. I welcome all comments.
Simply click on the link below to get your copy.
How to Create & Publish Your E-Book Using Free Tools
I’ve published my book on Scribd. Have a peek:
Hi, the ebook looks very interesting and I look forward to reading. Can’t download on the computer I’m using; I shall try to download at the weekend.
Thanks for your interest. Let me know how you make out. The file is 1.5 Meg — not overly large. If there’s anything I can do to help, let me know.
You are an inspiration McD.
Thank you Chris — I’m also having a lot of fun.
What a wonderful accomplishment, John. I’ve missed you around the place, but obviously you’ve been very busy!
Can’t wait to read all about it. ~Jim
Thanks for stopping by Jim. Good to hear from you. You’re right — I’ve been busier than a cat coverin’ it up. I just uploaded my 62nd post on The Aware Writer.
Published my first E-book and am planning the next one.
Been busy with my photography and (get this) — I decided to get back into computer programming after a hiatus of about 20 years.
And I still find the time to ride my bicycle. I love retirement.
Since starting The Aware Writer, I’ve been integrating words and photos. I can’t imagine articles with just words any more.
John
Downloaded your book yesterday and the LyX program. It took quite a while for the program to ‘create the environment’ it needed, but I can tell already it will be worth it. I am collaborating on a book and found myself getting all caught up in the colors and formatting of MS Word.
All this from just the first two pages! I’m about to read on a little more this morning.
Christine
Oh, yeah. How do pronounce “LyX?” Didn’t see it in the documentation.
clg
There’s no single answer Christine. The consensus seems to be pronounced like “licks.” The original name for the program was Lyrix but was changed to LyX because Lyrix belonged to someone else.
CONGRATS!
I must say, i believed this was a fairly attention-grabbing read when it comes to this topic. Liked the fabric
Thanks for this graet work.
Thanks very much for making this resource available. I’m going to go over it very carefully as I ponder whether to produce an e-book of my photography.
Downloaded your book yesterday and the LyX program. It took quite a while for the program to ‘create the environment’ it needed, but I can tell already it will be worth it. I am collaborating on a book and found myself getting all caught up in the colors and formatting of MS Word.
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John, this is great, thank you very much for sharing this!! Interesting you mention FreeMind, I use mind maps to organize EVERYTHING at work, mind maps are a great tool.
This is such a great resource that you are giving and you present it apart for absolutely free. I love finding websites that have an understanding of the importance of providing a excellent aid for cost-free. It might be the old what all over happens around habit …
Downloaded your book yesterday and the LyX program. It took quite a while for the program to ‘create the environment’ it needed, but I can tell already it will be worth it. I am collaborating on a book and found myself getting all caught up in the colors and formatting of MS Word.
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Lyx is great for collaboration.
awesome, thx for your hardwork job. very useful
I read your article about org mode. Was wondering – can one use org mode for book publishing instead of Lyx?
Hi Alex, You can use org-mode for book publishing. I set up my journal so I can publish to pdf via LaTeX. I use the following at the beginning of the file:
#+LaTeX_CLASS: komaarticle
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \linespread{1.05}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{beraserif}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[scaled=.85]{helvet}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[scaled]{beramono}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \hypersetup{pdfborder={0 0 0},colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue, citecolor=cyan, urlcolor=blue, linktocpage=false}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[papersize={7in,9in},text={5.6in,7.6in},centering]{geometry}
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [12pt,microtype]
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{fancyhdr}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \pagestyle{fancy}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \date{}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \rhead{\thepage}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \cfoot{}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:3 \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil skip:nil d:t tags:nil email:nil creator:nil author:t timestamp:nil
#+STYLE: .timestamp { color: purple; font-weight: bold; } h1 { margin-top: 120 } h2 { text-align: center; margin-bottom: 40; margin-top: 30 } h3 { text-align: center; } .tind { text-indent: 0 }
I’ve also managed to get a book into kindle format. Export as html and run the file through kindlegen (program available from Amazon). You need to play with #+STYLE: and #+OPTIONS.
John,
Thanks for reply. Good to know that you were able to convert to kindle format from org mode.
Alex