Saturday, May 14, 2011

Resource Of The Week: MobiPocket Ebook Creator

Today's resource of the week is the MobiPocket Ebook Creator. I have used this program to convert my MS Word document of The Samson Effect and Conducting Effective Twitter Contests into the document I uploaded to Kindle's Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. It handled the screenshots that were in the Twitter contest book well, created the linkable table of contents with no problems and it allowed me to upload the book cover with no problems.

MobiPocket Ebook Creator lets you import from an HTML document, MS Word, a text document and a PDF document. While I can also recommend other e-book creation tools, this is one that you should definitively check out. It's free and it's a powerful little tool.

Hat tip to CJs Easy As Pie Kindle Tutorials for not only turning me onto the MobiPocket Ebook Creator, but for also creating the tutorial I used when I published my own Kindle titles.


Last 4 Resources Of The Week
YouTube's Creator's Corner
Wikimedia Commons
Twitter Bookmarklet III
Kontactr



 -------- Tony Eldridge is the author of The Samson Effect, an action/adventure novel that Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure." He is also the author of the Twitter marketing book, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests.

5 comments:

Nick Daws on May 14, 2011 6:36 AM said...

I'm also a big fan of MobiPocket Ebook Creator - I used it to prepare my illustrated sci-fi novella The Festival of Lyris Five (linked above) for the Kindle.

I've also referred extensively to the program in my forthcoming guide, Kindle Kash (to be published by The WCCL Network).

Tony Eldridge on May 16, 2011 1:45 AM said...

From what I hear, a lot of Kindle authors use this little gem.

I'm eager to see your guide when it comes out, Nick. Keep mu posted :)

CJ's Easy As Pie on May 24, 2011 8:32 AM said...

Hi Tony,

I'm getting hits from here in my stats... just thought I'd come over to see what all the excitement is about.

You are about to convince me to go Twittering.

I can't seem to find the time, but it's beginning to look as if I must!

Happy Kindling,

CJ, at CJ's Easy as Pie Kindle Tutorials
http://www.cjs-easy-as-pie.com/

Tony Eldridge on May 26, 2011 9:35 AM said...

Thanks for stopping by, CJ! I still visit your tutorials often. Thanks for putting in the time to create them.

Twitter has been good to me. As you can see, it also helps me share a lot of information with people. It's a big reason why people have found your tutorials from my blog :)

Have a great week!

Paul Brookes on September 14, 2011 5:02 AM said...

Mobipocket Creator and Calibre are both very useful for converting HTML to mobi.

Mobipocket Creator is faster and easier to use than Calibre, but its table of contents generator is very picky about your HTML code. I also can't configure it to recognize images as chapter headings.

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