![]() It offers several styles to mix and match, and the resulting product looked nice. I ran a short story through the Draft2Digital interface, and it’s very easy to use. I didn’t try the Reedsy version, but I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! The most low-cost/low-tech options seemed to be the web-based tools provided by Draft2Digital and Reedsy. In doing my initial research, I found indie authors were handling formatting in several ways. This week, we won’t go down the rabbit hole of what formatting is, or should be, but I may revisit it later! What Are My Formatting Options? If you are also procrastinating getting back to the heavy edits you’re avoiding on your next book like I am, this might be a great time to figure out how you’re going to handle your formatting. You might be waiting to see what typos your proofreader, and your picky Aunt Edna, and that one guy who always has to show you up, find. If you’re where I am, you have a few things you might change. Both features are reportedly on Vellum’s eventual roadmap, but for now, the program remains medialess.Nearly done with your book? Have a plan for formatting it? If not, consider Vellum. This is also likely why you can’t currently embed images or video. To both render previews and export proper files, Vellum needs HTML/CSS-compliant code for each platform, and the easiest way to ensure this is to eliminate user input (at least for version 1.0). The app even offers live preview options for every major ereading device, which is a huge improvement over the “export and guess what it will look like” game most of us in the ebook-publishing industry play nowadays. Vellum is one of the few ebook exporters that lets you create ebooks for iOS devices, the Kindle, and the Nook with one click-no changes necessary. One reason for this is the app’s excellent cross-platform preview and export engine. That’s not to say there aren’t options for tweaking your book-the app provides an array of beautifully rendered customization options for your book style, headings, the first paragraph of a chapter, block quotes, ornamental breaks, and the paragraph after a break-but you’re currently limited to the styles Vellum offers. The ebook enthusiast who wants to customize everything from link colors to page borders will be sorely disappointed. On the other hand, like the iLife suite, Vellum isn’t designed for customization junkies. Vellum’s controls are both expertly designed and easy to learn, capturing the feel of one of Apple’s iLife apps: There are a bunch of options, hidden away, if you need to apply them to your manuscript, but you can ignore most of those extras in favor of quickly building your book. ![]()
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