Why spite? Because at first I was going to try and put GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND on other digital platforms besides Amazon’s. However, when I tried to put it on Barnes & Noble, I discovered that it would be impossible to do, as B&N simply doesn’t want any format that isn’t Word. …I am not going to spend money to rent the [expletive deleted]iest word processor program on the market today. I’m certainly not going to do it just to put my books on a platform that’s an afterthought in the e-book industry.
So… GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND will be on 99 cent Kindle sale, starting on Monday. B&N’s loss is your gain.
#commissionearned
LibreOffice Writer (which is free) claims to be compatible with Word, and in my (very very limited) experience seems to be.
I mostly use their spreadsheet app though.
I don’t remember the details, but there was a Word-specific thing I needed to have in order to get the chapter headings to work right in B&N’s e-book uploader. I spent several hours trying to get around that before I gave up.
Professional-grade layout programs from 15 years ago are outclassed by freeware, and you have to use Word?
Wtf?