ePub Publishing Guide - eReader Edition How To Publish eBooks For Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod, Nook & Kobo There are expensive software tools available to automatically create ePub books or free conversion tools to convert from Microsoft Word, PDF, etc. But why hassle with them when their resulting eBook is sub-optimal and you spend more time later trying to fix the output files? What we will show you is a way to manually create an ePub publication from scratch using our proven ePub template.