Give yourself a "Rating" of 5 stars if you are awesome or 1 star if you are an ironic hipster. Add an eBook cover by clicking the "Browse" button (600x800 JPEG strongly recommended by this guide). If the eBook is a series, enter the name under "Series" and the series number under "Number". it could be "Paul Salvette" or "Salvette, Paul") Enter the name of the author under "Author Sort" (e.g. Enter the name of the author under "Author". Enter the title of your eBook under "Title Sort" (this is how it will be alphabetically sorted, so "The Poop that Took a Pee" could be sorted under "Poop that Took a Pee, The", if desired). Enter the title of your eBook under "Title" (note: this will be loaded in Calibre with the text you defined in between the tags in your XHTML, but you can change it inside Calibre). Verify your record is selected in the content management screen (#1). The Metadata screen in Calibre is pretty self-explanatory, but here is a step-by-step explanation: While you will have to enter similar data when you upload your eBook to the Kindle Store and Barnes & Noble NOOK, these eBook retailers will hopefully one day decide to recognize this metadata entered in Calibre. the eBook's author, title, description, etc.) This metadata will be embedded in your EPUB and MOBI formats after you complete conversion. Additionally, there are some helpful hints for formatting for Smashwords in this tutorial.Ĭonverting XHTML into EPUB and MOBI FormatsĪdding MetadataYou are now going to add all of the metadata to your XHTML (e.g. Templates for XHTML and EPUB are also available for your formatting arsenal. 
For those looking for something more advanced, you can also peruse the Regular Expressions tutorial, as well as the EPUB and KindleGen tutorial. The full tutorials for the eBook formatting series include a basic XHTML tutorial, a tutorial for converting your manuscript into XHTML, and a Calibre tutorial for converting XHTML into eBooks. Also, please sign up for the mailing list for promotions, design & marketing tips, plus eBook industry news.
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