If you are planning to publish an ebook, you will want it to look good, to look professional, to look like an ebook the biggest publisher would publish.
These days there are many tools to help you make an ebook, but getting a good-looking ebook isn't always so easy. This article will tell you about "markup" -- a magical substance that can either make your ebook beautiful-looking. Or ugly as sin.
Ebooks are (roughly) self-contained websites. They are made of the same stuff: HTML and CSS styling.
What is Markup?
Markup is the HTML part ... it's the text of your book, plus "tags" in the background.
For instance, here is a brief passage of text with some formatting:
