Modern Formatting Tools for PC

[Post-Crisis D]

I have a writer friend who has been out of the game for a few years and is wanting to know about modern formatting tools to convert to .mobi or whatever the current Amazon format is.

I think she writes in Word on a PC.

[TimothyEllis]

You don't need to convert to mobi.

Upload the docx, download the mobi.

[Jeff Tanyard]

Or upload to D2D, convert to epub, and then use that epub everywhere.

Or use Calibre to convert to epub.

Either way, epub is the format I'd recommend.  I don't mess with mobis anymore.

[TimothyEllis]

Or upload to D2D, convert to epub, and then use that epub everywhere.

Or use Calibre to convert to epub.

Either way, epub is the format I'd recommend.  I don't mess with mobis anymore.

I'm the opposite.

Every single book I produced as an epub was pirated.

As far as I can tell, since I stopped that and have been exclusively mobi, none of my books have been pirated.

[Simon Haynes]

Amazon asks for epubs these days, not mobi. It's on the upload page.  Something about some (most?) mobi files not supporting enhanced formatting.

[Wonder]

If you're looking for a generic "converts this file to that type of file" utility, check out Pandoc. We use Pandoc to turn raw manuscript files into EPUB and PDF, but there's a bit of a learning curve.