Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish an eBook

Writing a book is the tough part—getting it published should be easy nowadays. Instead of needing a publisher, anyone can submit their own book to the Kindle and iBooks stores and be a published author in hours.

And yet, it's not quite that easy. The first times we tried to publish books on the Kindle and iBooks stores at Zapier, I ended up hand-coding XML files inside ePub exports, and spent hours figuring out how exactly to get a free book listed on the Kindle store. It was crazy.

So I decided to write up all the tips and tricks we've learned about making eBooks, and turn it into, well, almost a book on its own. If you're making a book, it's got the tips you need to hopefully get your own books published with much less trouble.

Happy publishing!

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