Vircom's Webmaster Library: e-Book Authoring Tools

eBook Pack Express, from Caislabs Software: Create ebooks with eBook Pack Express! It is really an advanced e-book creation software and one of the most efficient Internet marketing tools! Start your own business now by creating ebooks!
eBook Pack Express has security features. Every eBook is assigned a GUID (Globally Unique Identifier). You can uniquely identify your eBooks by giving each of your eBooks a GUID. The eBook ID is generated automatically when you create new eBook Projects. No temporary file is created on local disk. All eBook pages are processed in memory quickly and securely; no temporary files are created on the hard drive. Anti-Snapping. Prevent Screen Capture softwares like Snag-It from capturing text from ebooks.
The eBook Reader contained in eBook Pack Express uses Internet Explorer as it's internal rendering engine. You can use any technologies supported by Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher to author your eBooks. These technologies include: DHTML, Java Script, Flash, etc. You may not distribute eBooks created with the trial edition.

Win9.x/ME/NT/2000
[Trial Edition: Free]

[Standard Edition: $US29]

[Professional Edition: $US79]

EbookPaper, from Wes Blaylock: EbookPaper is a new software program that lets you simply and easily compile e-books to sell or give away for free. It also allows people who download your free e-book to brand the e-book with an unlimited amount of fields that you define. This is a huge breakthrough in e-book marketing!
E-bookPaper allows you to place tags into your HTML before you create the e-book. Then when distributing the e-book, you also distribute another little software program that will open the e-book and edit those fields. It is really quite simple, but extremely powerful. You can password protect the branding feature so that only people you allow can brand your e-book with their information.
Ebook Paper ebooks have no temp file extraction. Most e-book software extracts the HTML files into a temp folder on your computer. This means that people could steal your HTML files and re-compile your e-book, this is not good but of course they wouldn't tell you that! EbookPaper prevents this!
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EbookPaper is a new software program that lets you simply and easily compile e-books to sell or give away for free. It also allows people who download your free e-book to brand the e-book with an unlimited amount of fields that you define. This is a huge breakthrough in e-book marketing!
[Commercial: $US47]

eCover 3D, from Excel International: eCover and ebook cover design and creating professional looking covers for ebooks, CD, DVD, notebooks and software boxes have never been easier. Now, you can create an unlimited number of covers for your ecover projects just like the pros.
eCover 3D is more than simple ebook cover software. It offers many exclusive and advanced features and gives you complete versatility in cover design. And as a special bonus you will also receive over 150 pre-designed templates for your ebook and ecovers.
Discover why eCover 3D truly is the new standard in ecovers. If you want to see how easy it is to create ecovers or ebook covers try our ebook cover software for free by downloading the fully functional trial version.

Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
(PayPal Registration available.)
[Shareware: $US69.00]

eCover Constructor, from Roman Breslav, Tela IT: Our eCover Constructor software allows you to create and your own individual, professionally looking 3D eBook, CD, DVD Covers and Software Boxes as easy as 1-2-3 that will massively increase sales of your products, packages and other online promotions!
Create your own amazing eCovers and Boxes out of your static graphics in any form, shape, angle and size for half the price of limited, static eCover software or 10 times cheaper than eCovers designed by graphic professionals!
You just need to load in your static front graphic, side graphic and top graphic and align them with a simple click. You can add text in any font, color, size and shape to it in the eCover Constructor and position according to your needs. Then rotate your image on the fly into the position you want and your eBook, CD, DVD or software box is ready. For a complete box, you can additionally load in bottom, side and back graphics.
Create unlimited 3D eBook Covers, CD, DVD Covers and 3D software boxes in any shape, form, angle, size and on any static color or image background of your choice, optionally add shadow and/or reflection to it.
[$US49]

eCover Engineer, from Adolix: The first impression is very important for a potential customers. And the first thing that they encounter when they meet your product is the ecover. That's right! And for many of them this is the moment they decide to proceed or to search for another product. If you have a beautiful ecover or software box, they are half convinced.
But there is another problem. A professional cover for software costs hundreds. Some of them need to be updated. Why spend so much money on something that you can do for free. Why waste precious time on something that you can do in a few minutes. Design your ebook covers or your software box with minimum costs.

Free 15-Day Trial Version of eCover Engineer is available.
98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
[Shareware: $US38]

eCover Generator, from Armand Morin: Simple Ready To Use Software Specifically Designed To Create eCovers - Installs in less than a minute! This software does the work for you. eCover Generator includes a complete Step by Step guide about utilizing eCover Generator! We show you how to make an eCover just a few simple easy to follow steps. Check the website for included bonuses. Try it out for one full month - RISK FREE! You have nothing to lose and a lot of money to save.

Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000. XP
[30 day trial: $US97]