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Title: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on February 10, 2021, 12:33:54 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: TimothyEllis on February 10, 2021, 12:55:48 PM: You don't need to convert to mobi.

Upload the docx, download the mobi.
Title: Re: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on February 10, 2021, 05:53:56 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: TimothyEllis on February 10, 2021, 07:46:57 PM: Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on February 10, 2021, 05:53:56 PM
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.
Title: Re: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: Simon Haynes on February 11, 2021, 06:56:32 AM: Amazon asks for epubs these days, not mobi. It's on the upload page. Something about some (most?) mobi files not supporting enhanced formatting.
Title: Re: Modern Formatting Tools for PC
Post by: Wonder on February 11, 2021, 08:46:06 AM: 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.