: What software should I use to write books, which can be exported to Lulu and CreateSpace? I currently use PagePlus X6 to typeset books. It has the capability to export to .pdf files and .epub

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Your eBook has been rejected for improper capitalization. The first
letter of all words in the title, subtitle and author name should be
capitalized, except for the following words: a, an, and, for, from,
of, or, the, to. The first and last word of the title and subtitle
should always be capitalized.

This error is because you have a title or author in the wrong format while sending in the metadata:

WRONG = "lorem ipsum"
WRONG = "LOREM IPSUM"
RIGHT = "Lorem Ipsum"

Your title should be the very first line of your document, with no
blank lines or images above it, styled as Heading 1, to replace the
broken link in your NCX. Style text as Heading 1 by selecting the
text, then clicking “Heading 1” in the style toolbar.

This is a known issue if you use a program like Calibre, in regards to incorrect bookmarks to incorrect locations, and several platforms will issue a refund on your title if you do not check your bookmarks.

I would suggest if you are using any tool to generate an ePub you should ALWAYS navigate and test your ePub and validate it through a current validator. A validator I recommend to people that experience ePub issues is IDPF.

As stated by Anthon you can submit a .pdf file but your metadata could still be incorrect and the bookmarks incorrect so you may still get the same error.

Reference: The use of metadata in PDF files
Reference: Adding metadata to document properties

Another key note make sure your fonts are embedded in the .pdf file if you are going to submit it VIA .pdf because you will get an error. To check:

Open .pdf file
Ctrl+D
Click Tab FONTS
Review accordingly

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For CreateSpace you essentially need to provide a PDF and do the layout by combining your output with images in the form of PDF output. To conform to their formats, you would still need a template for the editing software that you use, that generates a PDF that can be merged with such templates (and not come into the margins as they warn you not to).

The CreateSpace forums give some, but IMHO not very much more helpful tips (e.g. here)

It looks like CreateSpace is more reader-customer oriented and not so much bookwriter-customer, I had more help from the publisher for the single book that I helped typeset that made the shelves, and I was the first generating electronic input (from LaTex) for them.

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