The Matter of Creating E-Books

Have been checking out the creation of E-books to produce an E-book. Have used the following software (so far): LibreWrite, Quarkxpress and Kindle Create. All operate the same way. Basically you drop your novel into a page then use Header 1 to create chapter or short story headings for a TOC (yeah, I wondered about that for a while - Table of Contents). 

Libre was easy, on the export to E-pub you could add a cover of your book which would then appear as athumbnail on your chosen e-reader. 

Quark was more creative, in fact so creative I realised for a basic e-pub like a novel it probably wasn't my choice; but what I liked about it was the creation of page sizes etc. 

Kindle Create (the Amazon software) as you would expect does what it says on the tin, but a little frustrating at times. Haven't found a way to attach a front cover when exporting to epub. Used a workaround and put the pic within the document on the first page. Guess this must come later when you are ready to publish. It's simple and behaves like Libre. The major difference is you get to preview your book on Tablet, Kindle and Phone. This is handy as it gives a viewpoint of how things are looking. It also has export options for Kindle and Epub. 

Crucially - Libre and Kindle Create are free.