Comments on: My Experience with E-Pubbing My Backlist

By: PatriciaW

PatriciaW — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:09:42 +0000

Congratulations, Leslie. I actually like your cover better than the publisher’s. I suspect more and more authors will take this plunge, and the readers benefit because books will no longer “go out of print”.

By: Nancy Herkness

Nancy Herkness — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:41:51 +0000

Leslie, thanks so much for the helpful post! I’m contemplating taking the e-book plunge myself so I was very interested in reading about your experience. You make it sound less intimidating than I expected, although I can tell the process is time-consuming. Glad to know the sales make it worthwhile!

By: Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:12:26 +0000

It’s fun epublishing OOP books, though, isn’t it? I was lucky that my husband took over the cover design and the formatting. Very lucky. I am no techno-whiz.

Hope your books sell well.

By: Leslie Langtry

Leslie Langtry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:44:57 +0000

Thanks Dan! It really is an exciting time now!

By: Dan McGirt

Dan McGirt — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:40:23 +0000

Welcome to independent epublishing, Leslie! I hacked my way through the same learning curve — including doing homemade covers with MS-Publisher! This is an exciting time for authors to be able to revive your own backlist and even publish new works at will. Glad it is working well for you and here is to your continued success!

By: Leslie Langtry

Leslie Langtry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:19:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

Jana – one or two?

By: Jana DeLeon

Jana DeLeon — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:13:52 +0000

No servitude required…but I’ll take one of those cocktails.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:07:37 +0000

Epubs are actually zip files with xhtml text and a couple other files (css stylesheets, metadata), so it will convert better if you save it as an html file than it will if you save it as a word file. Also, the program calibre is pretty awesome for converting between ebook formats.