Get to know Vellum
Joanna Penn chats to Brad Andalman, one of the co-founders of 180g, which produced my favourite ebook formatting tool Vellum.
Here are the highlights and full transcript below.
- How the 180g got interested in helping authors format their ebooks
- Overview of some of the Vellum features
- Why Vellum has focused on Mac users only
- The future for Vellum, including formatting capability for print books
Joanna Penn’s Vellum Podcast
Vellum podcast key takeaway
Insightful podcast with @Thecreativepenn about Vellum for #ebook publishing. Click To Tweet… it can take a few days for a Vellum book Look Inside to update. So people get nervous like, “Oh, it doesn’t look like the way that it looked on Vellum.” That’s because of the thing I mentioned earlier that the thing that Amazon does is the first thing it shows in Look Inside is that smaller older Mobi7 format and then it decides to update to that more advanced Vellum formatting a few days later. We’re not sure when it decides, I think it just puts it on some queue and it waits.
Not Ready to use Vellum?
Do you like the idea of your book being formatted in Vellum, but don’t have the time, money, patience or expertise to format it yourself? Or you don’t have a Mac!
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To view examples of the different style options available in Vellum, take a look at the posts I created that highlight the elements of each Vellum style.
