Using your PowerPoint slides to illustrate your book is a terrible idea

Using your PowerPoint slides to illustrate your book is a terrible idea

Authors have often debuted their book content as a speech. So why not use those PowerPoint (or Keynote) slides from the speech as graphics in the book? After all, they’re perfectly aligned with the content and they’re instantly available. If you’re using Microsoft Word for text, why not use Microsoft’s PowerPoint for graphics? It’s a…