8 Flubs to Watch for in eBook Conversion

Ebook conversion is rife with errors of automation. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I highlight 8 common snafus, from a talk by Teresa Elsey at the 2016 BookNet / eBOUND Canada eBookCraft production conference in Toronto.Link to my columns on Copyediting.com

You can read all of Elsey’s talk or watch it yourself: When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print. There’s a LOT more valuable information in it. 

box figure reading an ebook

Photo by Zhoa, used under CC BY-2.0 license.
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