Self-Publishing: Easy as ABC Meredith Bond www.anessabooks.com
[email protected] J: Formatting with Jutoh For those of you who are not so computer savvy or just want an easier way of formatting your book, you can also convert your Word document into an epub and mobi file using the paid program, Jutoh. Jutoh is a program created for authors to convert their work into an ebook. That is its originally intention, unlike Calibre which has been used that way despite the fact that that’s not what it was meant for. Because it was meant for authors, it has a lot of great features which make formatting beautiful books easy, as you’re about to see. It’s not very expensive ($39) and has a devoted following of people who happily share information on how to use the program—there’s even a Yahoo group devoted to it where the developer answers questions that others cannot. Jutoh will use the clean, formatted document you created at the beginning of this lesson to organize and create your ebook. Basically, you are doing most of the formatting in Microsoft Word and then adding in all the fun stuff using Jutoh. If you want, you can directly import your cleaned Word document into Jutoh and then add all the styles and page breaks there, but Word is easier to work in (the window is larger and the text is easier to see). Before you begin to read this long and detailed explanation of how to format your book in Jutoh, please know that I created a video that shows you how to do all of this.