As an author you have many electronic publishing options available to you. While most authors are comfortable with the cross-platform (PC/Mac) support of the Adobe Acrobat PDF format, other authors want to publish rich, multimedia ebooks. In this instance, an author's choice becomes somewhat narrower. While there are several ebook compiler available, your "book manuscript" must first be written in HTML just like a web site. If you are comfortable with HTML, then The Desktop Author might be what you are looking for.

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