![]() ![]() That done, I just clicked into each section name and renamed them to end up with this: If if had been a chapter, and you just wanted to lose the numbering, this can be done by selecting the gear menu top-right and unchecking numbered. To persuade it to lose the numbering, you return to the Chapter menu, select Convert to and choose Uncategorised. However, Vellum still thought this was a chapter, and numbered it. Once left with only one ‘chapter’ for the preamble, I renamed it to Preamble. Doing this for each, including the spurious ‘untitled’ breaks in the story itself, took only a minute or so. In this case, I clicked on what it thought was chapter 4, then went to the Chapter menu and selected Merge with Previous Chapter. It picked up the page-breaks in my pre-amble, and decided these were chapters, and also split the story itself into three.įortunately, spurious or missing chapters are easy to fix. In my case, I’d written my technothriller in scenes rather than chapters, so Vellum had few headings to go on. If you have a table of contents, Vellum should recognize this and mirror the structure. Vellum attempts to intelligently parse the file as it is imported. Just open the Vellum app, go to File > Open and select your Word document. If it isn’t, pretty much any writing software you might use can export as a. Vellum assumes your source book is a Word file. There’s also iBooks Author, but that has the disadvantage that if you use it to create your book, you’re not allowed to sell the iBooks version through other channels.īut as I found out when I came to create my own ebook, generating an ebook that looks attractive on all of the different devices available is a rather tougher challenge. That’s the job the Mac app Vellum claims to do, so I put it to the test … There is also the excellent Calibre app (featured in our How-to guide), which will convert just about any file format to any type of ebook. If you’ve written your book in Pages, you can export to EPUB–the format needed for iBooks–direct from the app. Today, anyone can publish an ebook on iBooks and Amazon, whether as a freebie or a commercial book.Ĭreating an ebook isn’t difficult. One of the great things about technology is the way it has democratized the publishing world.
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