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Book formatting (for print and ebook hopefully with very simple, yet stylish and well-designed, options to make your book look great without enough options that non-designers will accidentally make it look terrible.).

You can upload docx files or write from scratch within the program.

Editing the book (collaboration tabs will allow for co-authoring, editing roles that track changes, and even allowing betareaders piracy-free reading options (comments, but no copy+paste or changes).

You can also drag and drop chapters and subsections around, like you can in Scrivener (you *can* do this in Word, but most authors don’t know that). We discussed optional outlining templates or formats most likely when it’s ready I’ll just make a version of my 24 chapter outline templates you can upload into the tool).

Writing the book (with cool charts, amount of time spent, word count goals, a place for notes).

Here’s a quick recap of what the tool should be capable of: Tonight I actually had a call with him to talk through some of the features, and the team is already working on a lot of fun and useful things. I’m optimistic, and eager, but I also won’t be easily impressed if a new tool lacks purpose and isn’t significantly better than all current solutions.ĭave currently says his new tool, which is called Atticus “is like Scrivener got together with Google Docs and Vellum and had a baby.” I’m explaining all this so that you know, as a book designer, I have a lot of experience with similar softwares and am critical of newfound solutions. Headers, footers, page numbers, a TOC, adding front and back matter, including images and chapter headings, and making a simple universal format that easily converts to both print and ebook formats is difficult.Īnd while I’ll often sacrifice design for ease of use and functionality (I’d rather convert a whole book that looks OK and doesn’t break, in 20 minutes, than spend days of pedantic work converting and preparing individual sections for a more unique style), it’s ALSO important, to me at least, to make my book design unique enough that it doesn’t look like every other book – chosen from one of 5 design styles, for example.

#Vellum book formatting professional#

When looking for a book formatting tool, it needs to be easy, while also creating high quality, professional design. I’ve done this for numerous tools over the past few years and routinely end up disappointed by tools without any innovative features, that don’t actually solve the core problems. Now the tool is nearly done and I’ve been given the honor of “stress testing” it to provide feedback.

#Vellum book formatting software#

Luckily, there’s a brand new software from Dave Chesson of Kindlepreneur that was custom built to make this process easier for authors.ĭave and I have kept touch on projects for many years and after creating his own successful software to help with keyword and category research ( Publisher Rocket) he’s invested in a software team to help him create new products: we both agreed that a “Vellum for PC” tool is desperately needed and would be wildly profitable, if he could pull it off. I’ve invested in cover design tools, templates and tutorials for years and my book formatting templates have been a useful but imperfect solution for a difficult problem.

#Vellum book formatting for mac#

Vellum is a great solution for Mac users but there’s never been anything comparable to it for PC users, who have to rely on buggy formatting with MS Word, a steeper learning curve with InDesign, or some functional but limited online book formatting tools like those from Reedsy or Draft2Digital. Here’s an article written by another self-published author that will help you.FebruDerek Murphy formatting, writing 3020įor years authors have been hoping for something that makes book formatting easier. However, if you’d really like to try it and you have a PC computer, check out Mac-In-Cloud. Vellum is only available for the Mac – sorry.

#Vellum book formatting how to#

In the Video Tutorial above, you’ll be able to see how simple it is to use different style options, add your book cover a title, use hyperlinks and how to generate for Kindle, ePub and print ready PDF. It’s Mac only right now(sorry!) but it is absolutely awesome and makes formatting simple to do.

Personally, my favourite choice for ebook(and print) formatting is Vellum.

Amazon KDP has Kindle Create, which is a Kindle only formatting tool.

Check out Reedsys’ writing and formatting tool.

#Vellum book formatting free#

There are some FREE tools you can use to format your ebook: 😉 Click this link to watch a Video Tutorial on how to format your ebook and print book using Vellum. It really is easy to use and it creates beautiful eBooks and print books. I never realized how simple formatting could be until I used Vellum software. How to Format Your eBook and Print Book With Vellum