Know Your Limitations to Smashwords Direct However, authors uploading EPUB files must still adhere to the formatting practices listed in the Smashwords Style Guide and books are still reviewed by their vetting team before shippping to retailers. Later, if you wish, you can add more ebook formats to your book page by uploading a Word. If you’re preparing to publish a new book not yet at Smashwords, sign in to your Smashwords account, click the regular Publish link, then fill out the publish page as you would normally, but upload your EPUB instead of a Word.To do this, click to your Dashboard, then click “Upload New Version,” then upload your file. You can replace your Smashwords-generated EPUB with your own EPUB.There are two methods of direct EPUB upload, according to Smashwords: (Of course, please consult our Smashwords Style Guide to make sure it’s formatted properly, first!)” How it Works doc file instead, and allow our Meatgrinder to convert the book for you. epub, we encourage you to simply upload an. If you’re not sure what this is all about, or if you have any difficulty uploading an existing. NOTE from Smashwords: “Smashwords Direct is currently in open beta. The high rate of EPUBCHECK failures illustrates just one problem.” epub files that were no better (and some worse) than what the average Smashwords author is already creating with Meatgrinder. This made us happy, and validated our decision to support this. Smashwords ran several alpha tests through the program and states: “Some of the sample files we received were beautiful, and contained features such as drop caps or nested NCX navigation that we don’t support in Meatgrinder. Not all epubs will pass the grade – so please read and learn. Now, you can have the best of both worlds – but be careful. Having created several professionally and beautifully designed books over the years, I found publishing to Smashwords limited.
epub with your own EPUB file, or you can use it when uploading a new title (simply upload the EPUB rather than an MS Word DOC file).” You can use Smashwords Direct to replace a Smashwords Meatgrinder-generated. “Smashwords Direct allows you to upload your own professionally designed.
2012) a much needed improvement to their system – Smashwords Direct allows the support of ebooks that “contain richer, more sophisticated formatting”. After years of wanting this feature, Smashwords launched (Dec.
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