EVER FANCIED YOURSELF AS AN AUTHOR? These days, you don’t need a publishing deal to distribute your magnum opus, and you don’t even need to commit to the upfront cost of printing copies without any guaranteed sales in place. Thanks to the rise of eReaders like the Kobo and Kindle, you can publish digitally for zero cost and then look to promote your work online.
The hardest part of the job is taking your finished draft—typically in a Microsoft Word document—and converting it into a format that opens on an eReader flows properly on any screen and is easy to read. The solution lies in an open-source program called Sigil, which takes your text (and any images you may have) and transforms it into a standard ePub file, which can be read on a variety of mobile devices, from Kobo eReaders to tablets and even phones.
At first glance, Sigil can appear impenetrable, but this tutorial will help you get to grips with the basics, allowing you to create and export your book in a format you can also easily convert to the AZW3 format used by Kindles for maximum exposure.
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Start by heading over to where you’ll find download links for Windows (64-bit only, requires Windows 10 1809 or later), Mac (macOS 11 Big Sur or later), and].
