Last summer, Kobo Writing Life launched its professional EPUB conversion service on the Author Services tab of the Dashboard. Since then, we’ve seen one question come up a lot: what’s the difference between epub and epub fixed layout? So here’s a short guide to determining whether your book is one or the other. An EPUB, as you may already know,
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Setting The Price On a New Book You will first set the price of your book starting with your default currency. If you set a list price of $2.99 USD or more you will earn maximum royalties of 70%. Once you enter the price in your default currency, we will automatically convert to all of our other available currencies using
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By Hufsa Tahir Like the finer things in life, eBooks don’t look as good as they often do without a lot of testing and loving attention to detail. Whether you use InDesign or head direct to a software like Calibre or Sigil, chances are, the ePub you generate will not be error-free. You’re likely going to need to do some tweaking
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By Tara Cremin What is metadata? When creating a new eBook using Kobo Writing Life, you’ll be asked to input information that will help us to display and categorize your book. This information is called metadata. It is essentially the who, what, when, and where of your eBook. You’ll enter your metadata in the ‘Describe your eBook’ section of your
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By Hufsa Tahir Let’s talk about fonts. Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about them; we tend to use them for our book files, export to ePub format or upload to a conversion tool, and forget about them. But for an eBook, they can be incredibly important. In some cases, they can make or literally break your book.
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