eBook Conversions

Our Smart Media Design Studio, provides professional eBook
conversion services for projects both large and small.

Convert Files From

› MS-Word doc
› Open Office Writer
› WordPerfect

Convert To (Format)

› .mobi (Kindle)
› .epub (iPad, iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony eReader, Kobo, and more)

Getting Ready

Before you publish, there are a number of aspects for you to consider, to bring your product to a professional finish – particularly, if you are intending on uploading it to platforms such as Amazon:

Editing and proofreading of your writing. There’s nothing more that strips a publication of credibility, both for you as a writer, but also your book title, than having poor grammar and spelling mistakes! You have a choice as to edit it to a US-English or a UK-English in this process.

Removing unwanted code from your Word document. Your file will not ‘convert’ adequately, if you do not strip or align codes and styles within your original document. This will mean having to do it all again and end up costing you more money.

Preparation of a professional cover image in line with size, format and required pixels to adhere to your original converted file. Ideally, you want your readers to see your cover as well! Don’t forget, a cover can often be perceived as the ‘entre’ to the book and it is important to get this aspect right.

Delivery of the final product to you, or upload on your behalf to the platform you require.

Easy! Now you can just write, and we’ll take care of the rest. Costs & Charges The investment you make in the final presentation of your work, culminates from a huge effort in putting all the material together in the first place — so you will want to get it right. Essentially, our pricing means you can estimate yourself what your project may cost you. There are no hidden costs and charges; what you see below is what it costs.

Our Quote Will Be Based On:

* Typed document, Times New Roman, 12 font, 3 cm margins, 1.25 spacing.
* Provision of end document in UK-English.
* Services of professional in-house Editor.
* Light copy-edit and proofread
* Format Word .doc ready (strip codes, set styles)
* Create a professional cover (to conversion requirements)
* Convert to Kindle Book or .ePub Format or both
* Provide files to you or upload direct to Amazon.

Our Terms

We only provide a full-service conversion offering. That is, we take your project and manage the whole process. There are literally too many things that can go wrong, and cutting corners in this regard and thinking you will save time and money, will actually end up costing you more money.

We work with you to make sure it’s right. We want you to come back and use the service again, so we 100% guarantee our work. What have you got to lose?

We require 50% of payment for editing and formatting and this allows for 1 draft review by yourself. Once approved by you, we require pre-payment for file conversion of balance owing. We accept PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, EFT or business cheque (Australia).

An Important Note…

As professional editors, we highly recommend that you accept our proposed changes/edits/grammatical suggestions and comments. Occasionally, we do have clients who will tend to pass the marked-up suggestions to their partners or friends who are not qualified as editors for their input and this is something we suggest you do BEFORE it gets to us to edit. Let’s face it, if you’re paying for a professional, why wouldn’t you take on board their suggestions?

Think About This

From experience, we find that some writers think that ‘just because it is an eBook’ that it somehow has some diminished need for professionalism in presentation and many will simply ‘slam’ together a Word document and really, that’s fine, if that is where you want to position you and your brand.

There is no less effort in editing, proofreading or preparing formatting for a professional online soft-copy book (eBook) than should realistically go into a full-bound printed hard copy book — not if you are taking yourself seriously.

Food for thought…

So, Let’s Start!

To get started, simply contact us. Once we’ve had our initial discussion, you can then use our FREE client upload facility to send us your file, we will initiate an invoice for 50% — and once we receive payment, we’re away!

We look forward to working with you on your project!

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