Desktop tools for self publishing
Conclusion
Numerous other scripts exist for creating ebooks. Debian especially offers a thorough set of scripts for creating ebooks from AbiWord, Apple Pages, DocBook XML, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, and others [6]. Before publishing, you may also want to verify your output, either using an online verifier or a free tool such as EpubCheck [7] from your distribution's package repositories.
For general purposes, LibreOffice 6.0 or Calibre should produce acceptable output. However, keep Sigil for hands-on troubleshooting. Between these three tools, you should have all you need for do-it-yourself ebook publishing.
Infos
- HarfBuzz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz
- Ebook self-publishing stats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/249036/number-of-self-published-books-in-the-us-by-format/
- EPUB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
- MOBI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket
- LibreOffice ebook conversion extensions: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/@@search?SearchableText=epub
- Debian scripts for ebook conversion: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=epub&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
- EpubCheck: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/epubcheck
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