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What is a good FREE ebook creator that I can use to produce good looking ebooks?
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- Posted On April 5, 2011 At 3:32 pm
- In Category eBooks
Do you know of any that are not trail versions? Thank you!
Depends on what kind of ebooks you want to create. But there’s lots of ebook creation programs, and I think there are free programs for every main type of ebook!
Calibre is free and open-source, and can make ePub and LRF ebooks: http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net
Mobipocket creator is at mobipocket.com and can make .mobi/.pdb ebooks.
Dropbook will make eReader PDBs, but you’ll need to learn palm markup language to use it. http://www.ereader.com/ereader/help/dropbook/download.htm (There’s a paid version, ebook studio, that does the markup for you.)
You can make PDFs with any word-processing program and a free PDF printer like cutePDF; for that, make sure the pages match the reading device. Letter-sized PDFs look awful on portable PDF readers.
If you want to make really, really good ebooks in several formats to maximize readership, you’ll need software like BookDesigner. It’s free, but it’s complex and has a steep learning curve. Details are at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Book_Designer