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eBook

Vellum Simplifies Ebook Conversion So Authors Can Focus On Their Craft

Posted on by Shawn E. Bell

Digital Book World has added a release about Vellum’s ebook creation software for OSX.  From the article:

Authors who want to create their own digital books are often frustrated when converting their manuscripts into ebooks. A Seattle software company called 180g has created a tool, Vellum, that handles the technical ins-and-outs of building EPUB, MOBI, and iBook files—simplifying ebook conversion and giving authors more time to focus on their craft.

Vellum ebook creation software, introduced today, runs on Mac OS X and allows authors and small publishers to easily create beautiful ebooks for iBooks, Kindle, and Nook without any prior experience or training.

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OS X Mavericks is here, and it brings iBooks to the Mac!

Posted on by Shawn E. Bell

Apple announced new hardware and software today, including the FREE release of OS X Mavericks available on Apple’s website HERE.

For authors, Mavericks brings iBooks to the Mac.  From the Apple press release:

With OS X Mavericks, a new chapter in the iBooks story begins. Now you can launch the iBooks app on your Mac and the books you’ve already downloaded on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch will automatically appear in your library. And there are over 2 million more books in the iBooks Store, ready for you to download with just a few clicks.1 Reading books is intuitive and easy — turn pages with a swipe and zoom in on images with a pinch. If you’re a student hitting the books, keep as many open as you like and search through them with ease. And when you take notes, highlight passages, or add a bookmark on your Mac, iCloud pushes them to all your devices automatically. iCloud even remembers which page you’re on. So if you start reading on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, you can pick up right where you left off on your Mac.

You can find out more about the new products HERE and OS X Mavericks HERE.

You can find out more about iBooks HERE.