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write a short e book.

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  • 19-09-2020 8:16pm
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    Enquiring for a friend who is planning to write a short e book. What would be best way to do this.? It is mostly text but will have one or two illustrations . I saw something called canva. Has anyone used this? Or would you just do it in a word processor and export as a pdf?


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    mordeith
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    Royal Colossal Pest wrote: »
    Enquiring for a friend who is planning to write a short e book. What would be best way to do this.? It is mostly text but will have one or two illustrations . I saw something called canva. Has anyone used this? Or would you just do it in a word processor and export as a pdf?

    Depends on what the final format will be but basically just do it in word first.


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    mordeith wrote: »
    Depends on what the final format will be but basically just do it in word first.
    how do you mean final format?


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    mordeith
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    Royal Colossal Pest wrote: »
    how do you mean final format?

    What's the ultimate goal, to have it on Amazon. If so you'd need the kindle format. Epub is an alternative and of course pdf is the most basic although not technically an ebook


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    mordeith wrote: »
    What's the ultimate goal, to have it on Amazon. If so you'd need the kindle format. Epub is an alternative and of course pdf is the most basic although not technically an ebook
    he wants to sell online from his site not amazon


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    Plode
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    Speaking as a regular reader on phone, tablet and computer, I tend to download Epub these days, as it's a smoother read than PDF.


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    Plode wrote: »
    Speaking as a regular reader on phone, tablet and computer, I tend to download Epub these days, as it's a smoother read than PDF.
    are epub easy to make?


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    is_that_so
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    Canva is more for design but has a lot of nice features, photos and templates. Uses the freemium model - limited for free stuff. Start in Word, as suggested, to get an idea what content you need in it and don't forget it has quite a few templates of its own.


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    mordeith
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    Royal Colossal Pest wrote: »
    are epub easy to make?

    If it's a basic layout there are free online converters


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