Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Create Ebooks For Little Or No Money

Have you ever wanted to create ebooks but could not afford the very expensive Adobe Acrobat Professional. The free alternative is Scribus. Scribus is an open source desktop publishing program that allows you to write ebooks. It takes a little getting use to but has lots of features to make a decent book. I've tested this software but not to its full extent but from what I have seen it is actually much easier than using my older version of Adobe Indesign.
The other alternative to Adobe Acrobat is a PDFill Pdf Editor. This program has a ton of features as well as some freebies. The program only costs $20.00 which is a mere fraction of the cost of the Adobe Acrobat Professional. I highly recommend this program. Once you register the program you will have free upgrades for life which is a bonus.
Don't get me wrong. I like the Adobe products very much. However, it is very expensive to keep up with upgrades to Adobe products in addition that all the Adobe software is costly to begin with. Adobe does have a fairly generous trial period of thrity days where you can try out the latest version of Photoshop, Indesign and so forth.
Another good source to seek out inexpensive software for creation of ebooks is Download.com. Open Office is also able to export documents as a pdf booklet.