Have you used Calibre or iBooks Author to make a beautiful ebook and uploaded it to Lulu only to see something like this: Where the updates will really shine is for anyone creating their own EPUB. Any complex elements like tables should be made into images and inserted, as EPUBs still struggle with complicated formatting. I still recommend making a simple DOCX to convert that means primarily text using Styles and a minimum of images. What we have done is clean up a lot of the annoying conversion errors that used to plague our EPUB converter. Our Ebook Creator Guide is the best resource for building your DOCX file for conversion: You’ll still need to create a DOCX file using Styles and avoiding a lot of formatting like columns and tables. Our DOCX to EPUB conversion hasn’t changed. We’ve thrown out the old converter and we’re using one that actually works. But it will get a lot easier to create your ebook file the way you want and upload it to Lulu with no hassles. I’ve worked on dozens of files that our system should have accepted and didn’t for annoying and obscure reasons. If we have frustrated you uploading a DOC or DOCX file for conversion in the last couple of year, I promise you are not alone. Or the way our converter started ignoring copyright information, breaking the metadata through no fault of the person uploading the file. So many paltry things that can cause errors like content in the Header, which our converter should delete but doesn’t always. Particularly with our DOCX to EPUB conversion. Which always bugged me because Lulu’s converter makes the process cumbersome.
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What changed was when I looked at EPUB code and realized it’s actually very simple. The idea of doing anything more complex than maybe a text link with HTML terrified me. The few ebooks I had read were on my laptop, borrowed from the library, and required reading for school. I say expert with quotes because, prior to working at Lulu, I didn’t even own a Kindle or Nook. EPUBs Simplifiedįor the last couple years, I’ve been the “expert” in EPUBs. Something Lulu’s converter has not done a great job keeping up with. As the requirements for devices have evolved and reading apps have improved, it’s become simple to generate an EPUB file.
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Calibre and Apple’ iBooks Author are both popular and free ways to have more control over your EPUB. Today, there are a lot of ways to make an EPUB. And with the prevalence of Microsoft Word users, we designed our original EPUB converter to work with Word Docs. Despite Lulu’s focus on providing the best in print book fulfillment and retail, it’s always been important to make it easy to offer EPUB ebooks too.