Self Publishing - Document Formatting

Text editors and ebook converters might look similar on the outside but have very different purposes.

Word processors help users work with the text: write it, edit it, and share it with everyone afterward. They have built-in spell check, and most of them follow user changes and support different note-taking and highlight options.

Ebook editors, on the other hand, come into play once your book is ready. They are designed to create an epub that is difficult to change by the user and displays according to the publisher’s intent on many different devices, whether a computer, a Kindle or a smartphone.

Since the idea behind ebooks and Word documents is so different, it is not surprising that they only look similar on the surface.

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