A special rate of USD $185 was still pricey when contrasted with the initial USD $249.99 to purchase Vellum Press which enables me to create unlimited eBooks and paperbacks. That’s a whole lot of money, and a whole lot of books you have to see to recoup the expense. For example, to format a print book the cost was USD $115 and an eBook USD $115. Added expense of paying for formatting I could do myself.Inefficiencies and duplicated efforts having to important changes to my print version back into my ebook file and vice-versa.Communicating errors and waiting for fixes.Excessive wait times due to workload and time-differences.Explaining what I wanted my books to look like and how I wanted them formatted.Valuable productive time was wasted in many areas, including:
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Prior to using Vellum I relied on an external person to format my books.
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Then, with horror, I realized the same thing was happening to me. Until Joanna shared her experience I had blindly assumed all was in hand. Who knows? But whatever it was, I needed to fix it.
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VELLUM FORMATTING UPDATE
Perhaps there was an update inside Amazon that interacted with the particular way my formatting worked. It was just a problem in the Look Inside Previewer. But in my Scrivener file and my KDP Preview, and even in the ebook itself, the formatting was fine. “I checked and found that the spacing and alignment was screwed up. In the last few weeks, a reader reported that a couple of my books had a formatting issue with the Kindle Look Inside on. I’ve also been using Scrivener to format my ebooks for the last five years and that has been fine.
VELLUM FORMATTING SOFTWARE
Their tagline is ‘Easily Create Beautiful ebooks,’ and that’s exactly what the Vellum formatting software does.Īs author and blogger Joanna Penn notes, “It is the best writing tool and I couldn’t imagine writing without it now. ~ Jamie Arpin-Ricci, author of The Last Verdict.Īlongside Scrivener, your next best friend will be Vellum. It makes the process of formatting so much fun. Vellum is the single best investment any author can make.