How I Made $6K With My eBook

Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by kalid on Monday March 01, 2010 @04:32PM (#1159835)

Thanks for sharing! One of your questions was about laying out the ebook.

For my own, I started with InDesign but found it too painful to use (I only used it for the cover). I used LaTex (since I had some math equations) but the benefit is that it's all plaintext and easy to modify with quick scripts. It also gives you really nice typography. Again, this is probably most useful if you end up having math equations inside :).

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Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by macournoyer_ on Monday March 01, 2010 @06:19PM (#1160099)

Aww yes I need to learn LaTex :/

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Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by kalid on Monday March 01, 2010 @07:48PM (#1160295)

Yeah unfortunately there's a steep learning curve, but worth it for anything math-related.

Here's a sample chapter laid out with LaTeX: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://betterexplained.com...

The #1 rule is to not use the default styles unless you want your book to look like a master's thesis.

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Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by citrik on Monday March 01, 2010 @08:04PM (#1160319)

Quick, Someone write an E-book on LaTex ;)

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