Better Books with LaTeX: Self-Publish on Amazon and Google

by Clemens Lode, Conna Craig (Editor)

The craft of writing and marketing a book has changed significantly over the past 10 years. Thanks to companies like Amazon, Google, and Leanpub, you can publish your book on your own. This book can help you to overcome all the obstacles along the way, using the most powerful typesetting software available (LaTeX and Overleaf).Bundled with this book is a template that will give you a head start in your publishing process. In fact, this very book was produced with the same template. Still unsure whether this book is for you?Are you a first-time author with a complete manuscript that you are ready to publish ? Or do you write novels in Word but now want to write a non-fiction book ? Perhaps you are a professional editor seeking to expand your services from merely editing Word files to helping to release books online. Are you spending a lot of time indexing or managing bibliographical references?You may already be a LaTeX expert who wants to publish your work as an e-book. Are you planning a series and need to reuse text blocks? Are you looking for ways to share your work and collaborate with others? Are you looking for support to help you with diagrams and graphics?Besides providing you with a free, ready-to-use template (for the new Overleaf platform) to publish your next book, Better Books with LaTeX can teach And how What would lead a computer scientist to write about publishing books with LaTeX? Clemens Lode has a passion for clean design and streamlined workflows in software projects. The same methods can be also applied to publishing and typesetting. In this book, he explains the provided book template--file by file--so that you can adapt it to your needs and concentrate on actually writing the book.With his Better Books series, Clemens Lode covers the entire publishing process, from your initial concept to marketing your book on Amazon or Google. The focus of this book is to organize your book's files, images, and formatting, as well as the automated process of uploading your book to a publisher. The focus of Writing Better Books the Agile Way is to organize your content and project as a whole. Table of

170 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2019

Reviews

[Carlos Ramos · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has an occasional tip about book writing that can help me, but ultimately I feel that it does not do any of its two jobs great: I do not feel I can recommend this book to someone who has not had contact with LaTeX prior to this book, neither do I feel I have learnt a lot as an author.

It does give some content and info regarding the compilation as an ebook, and some changes that need to be performed, but I expected a more step-by-step approach that is not given.

To sum up: if you have it in your hands, you can learn good things from here. Otherwise, you are better off with one book per subject.