When creating ebooks, most use the PDF format to publish them.
As you know, I enroll in different programs for the benefit of my newsletter subscribers, and to keep relevant content flowing. I had an ebook created to try a brand new, promising ebook creation service.
While the formatting, graphics, and profile links were amazing, the content was somewhat lacking in detail, and required some corrections. It was still early days with this vendor, understanding their process is still being refined. My recommendations for changes were still not done to my perfectionist satisfaction.
I asked if I could get the source code for my book, and was told that source code changes would require the full version of Adobe Acrobat (not the free PDF reader), an expensive license subscription. The vendor did supply me with PDF, epub, and flipbook formats of my book.
I do have a subscription to PDF Escape, a full feature PDF editor. It is fine for making minor changes and corrections, and updating links but is not good at inserting large blocks of text that require re-pagination.
I did a little research and found a incredibly simple way to extract source HTML files from epub-format ebooks that could be edited, then the reassemble your changed files into an epub file.
1. Rename the .epub file to .zip with Windows File Explorer
2. Unzip using the Extract function of Windows File Explorer
3. Update the HTML files using a quality HTML editor (like the HTML Editor for Google Drive)
4. Zip all the files with the Compress function of Windows File Explorer
5. Rename the .zip file to .epub with Windows File Explorer
KDP and other ebook publishers generally accept epub files.
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