Writing and Publishing Books with Free Software
summary
Argues that every step of book production works with Free software: drafting in LibreOffice (track changes/comments compatible with Word), interior layout in Scribus or LibreOffice, covers in Inkscape, EPUBs via Sigil, and print-on-demand through KDP/Ingram or Draft2Digital. Claims self-publishing yields 70% royalty on ebooks priced $2.99–$9.99 (example: $2.08 from $2.99), traditional advances and 8–15% royalties are smaller, and recommends turning off DRM; end-to-end workflow is practical and proven.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:43What are you doing
- 3:16Why publish a book
- 4:27Traditional Publishing
- 6:52SelfPublishing
- 9:06Royalties
- 13:07Write the book
- 14:09Edit the book
- 14:52Revision
- 15:24Source Control
- 15:58LibreOffice
- 16:16Scribus
- 17:25Interior pages
- 17:57Ebooks
- 19:44Publishing Print Books
- 20:33Publishing eBooks
- 21:33DRM
- 22:14Questions
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