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Smashwords Style Guide

Mark Coker

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Title	:	Smashwords Style Guide
Author	:	Mark Coker
Book Format	:	Nook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 0 pages
Published	:	May 5th 2008 by Smashwords, Inc.
Categories	:	Reference. Nonfiction. Language. Writing. Business

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Before I started it and I saw that it was over 100 pages, I was leery, okay, that's just kind of a lot to have to learn about uploading my document to somebody's web site. Happily, much of what it has to say will only be applicable to a particular kind of person, you know, you can skip X if you're not writing a cookbook, you can skip Y if you're not a freakin' maniac whose document employs 86 different fonts.

Less happily, the voice was fairly offputting to me. It read like the audio track of a cartoon narrated by a "hip" teenage fox wearing a backwards ballcap and Macho Man Randy Savage rainbow mirrored wraparound sunglasses, voiced with the forced enthusiasm of a bad child actor.

The writer is bizarrely insistent on your using MS Word to compose your work, for somebody who uses most of the book to teach you all the many ways and means to trick Word out of doing everything it's been designed to do. Plus the hardline about the fantastic importance of getting into the Smashwords Premium Catalog reminded me of Jerry Lundegaard leaning on TruCote like he had a broken hip.

I picked up some exciting tips, tho.

"Hot Shot City" was particularly good.

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I haven't used the Smashwords service yet but this book make me want to, so I guess that's a good sign. It's clear and focused, so you get useful information.Against it, I can say that some warnings are repeated many times (I can understand that's done on purpose but it gets boring after a while). And I don't like the idea to be forced to use Microsoft Word to be able to get a decent result, but that I respect that everyone has his/her own tools of choice. So thumbs up for the book, I'll try the

Contains 21st-century e-book publishing information I've never thought of before. Example: Text color should be "automatic," not "black," so that if a reader sets their device to nighttime reading, it will give them white text on black background, not black text on black background.Easy to read, engaging, and not condescending; no repetitive lectures about why authors should use spell-check. Instills confidence that I can get Smashwords right...we'll see!

First, let me just say that this guide doesn't necessarily replace the need of finding a publisher. Yes this book will guide you step by step in formatting your manuscript into a layout that will work with the majority of ebook formats such as kindle, epub, kobo, iBooks, just to name a few. Even if you never want to publish through smashwords, this guide is the best I've read so far in helping with organising one's ebook manuscript to make it ready for a clean publication to be read on any ebook

good formatting guide to get all kinds of formats onto Smashwords, including Kindle and other major e-book distributors.

This book is comprehensive. The instructions within are easy to comprehend and follow. It's written in a friendly style, as though someone you know was guiding you through the process of getting your book formatted properly for Smashwords. It doesn't particularly expect you to know anything except MS Word. If you don't know Word, you might find this a bit difficult. As a writer about to embark on self-publishing, this book is proving invaluable. I highly recommend it to like-minded writers and

This is a great how-to guide to help publish your ebook to Smashwords. The instructions are easy to follow and straight forward. I read this book within a few days and when I got to actually working thru the steps of preparing to publish my book it was easy for me to reference back to the steps explained in this guide. I am so happy to say that with the help of the Style Guide I published my very first book "A Life Cycle Reborn" By Carolynne Raymond to Smashwords. Please stop by and take a peek

Not an easy read but not a difficult one either. All you have to do is read and pay attention. It may seem like a long guide but the margins actually make it longer and there are a lot of pictures as well. So don't be intimidated by the length but at the same time, don't try to publish your first ebook overnight. And when you do read it, make sure that you have your work right in front of you so that you can make the changes to your manuscript as you read along. You also don't need to be a