Several e-books self-published on Feedbooks started as blogs (or blooks ?) first, such as Mortal Ghost or obnoxious librarian from hades.
Thanks to our new AtomPub service, it is now possible to use blog editing softwares such as Windows Live Writer (on Windows obviously) or MarsEdit (for Mac OS X) to publish new chapters of your book both on your blog and on Feedbooks.
First of all, you’ll have to create the book on Feedbooks. While you can manage the content of your book with these tools, they’re not capable of creating the book itself.
Once you’re done, just add a new blog account in Windows Live Writer, and select “Other” for the type of the blog.
Enter http://www.feedbooks.com as the URL of the blog along with your username/password. Windows Live Writer will automatically discover our AtomPub service and list your books. Select the right one and you can start publishing new items in your book !
As we continue to improve and extend our AtomPub service, expect more and more integration for Feedbooks into various publishing tools.
Tags: AtomPub, publishing, Windows Live Writer
This sounds very helpful. Will the formatting be exactly as set out in the blog? I plan to begin serialising Corvus in June using WordPress from my new website. (And what about podcasts, which will follow in the summer?)
Good question.
All the basic formatting such as italics, bold, strike-through or text-alignment for example will work.
If you use CSS to do some tricky things, it won’t show up in the e-books. We white-list CSS properties, otherwise, it would produce all sorts of problems in the e-books.
Images won’t work for the moment, but we plan on adding image support on our AtomPub in the future.
Keep in mind too that you can still post-edit the book on Feedbooks. If you want to change something in the e-book version compared to the blog post, you can easily do it anytime you want.
Interesting! So if I understand this correctly I can publish the same blolg entry to my Blogger account and then to Feedbooks? Or does LiveWrites automatically publish to both sites at the same time?
Either way I will be trying this soon as this is quite handy
The obnoxious librarian
I’m not sure that Live Writer is capable of sending the entry to both Feedbooks and Blogger at the same time, but you can use it to send the content to both separately.
Hi I published with your site. May I know how I can get royalties?
You’ve published a free book on a website that doesn’t even display ads. What would you get royalties on ?
The “original books” section is strictly for authors who’d like to publish their books for free, if that’s not your case, I highly recommend to remove your book.
So if I understand this correctly I can publish the same blolg entry to my Blogger account and then to Feedbooks? Or does LiveWrites automatically publish to both sites at the same time?
I don’t think that LiveWriter authorizes to publish to both at the same time, but technically, sure it could.