Do you want to sell MORE books?Formatting a book the right way so that it displays correctly on all the different electronic devices like Kindles, PCs, mobiles and laptops can be a real headache. After having read a lot of articles, books and blog postings on the subject I didn't really find THE guide I was looking for : complete, simple and straight forward without the fluff.A better formatted book means: No negative reviews due to formatting issues and therefore : more SALES!!This guide takes you step by step, with lots of screenshots, through the whole process, how to format your Word document to make it look good and professional on any Kindle device.This Guide covers EVERYTHING you need to know (and more): headings, paragraphs, indents, bullet lists, table of contents, fonts and font sizes, colors, styles, negative margins, hyperlinks, bookmarks, images, TABs, indents, wildcard find & replace , Ecovers, uploading, testing and publishing.Once you have gone through this guide, all your following books will be a piece of cake to get them published on Amazon.Who is this book for?This book was written with the complete novice in mind. If you want to get simple and direct explanations on HOW to do the formatting, without being bothered about dpi, CMYK, Unicode, UTF-8 and other technical terms, then this book is for you.

Publishers and independent authors everywhere are excited-and somewhat anxious-about the move toward digital publishing. eBooks are revolutionizing the publishing world, and eBook reading devices like the Amazon Kindle are on the forefront of this revolution.However, the text formatting the Kindle requires can be hard to decipher and even harder to implement. This book serves as a guide to the process of formatting eBooks that look great on the Kindle every time. Each step is explained in detail, with examples and formatting tips found nowhere else.In addition to instructions for the conversion and formatting process, this book contains detailed explanations of all the HTML and CSS markup supported by the Kindle, instructions for achieving optimal image display quality on the E Ink screen, and other details about the Kindle's formatting requirements previously left to chance or speculation. Beautiful eBooks are at your fingertips. The Kindle and its readers await.

Discover the fast way to format your Word manuscript into both a Kindle eBook and Paperback print book using the free Kindle Create Software provided by Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing! If you are a fiction author who dreams of sharing your work online to a worldwide audience, then Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing is for you.Kindle Create takes indie publishing to the next level. Your manuscript will be transformed into both a professional looking eBook and a paperback book using custom themes with chapter titles, drop caps and image placement options. Why Kindle Create? Kindle Create transforms your text document into a file format which is acceptable for both the Kindle eBook of your novel and the paperback print on demand format of your novel or novella.You don't need to learn about coding or how to calculate margins or special formatting to design the interior of the paperback print version of your work, the software tool takes care of all of that automatically for you.It has been designed by Amazon specifically to support indie authors and to help them publish their work quickly and easily. In this book you will find step by step instructions on how to use Kindle Create to: Publish both your eBook and paperback using the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform and Kindle Create. Format your text with styles and themes. Build a table of contents. Add or edit text#Add, delete, resize, and/or align images. Edit your eBook later and quickly republish. Preview how your eBook will display on tablets, phones, and Kindle E-readers and create a file to publish to KDP. Automatically create a clickable table of contents for your eBook.#Automatically create a page number table of contents for your paperback print book. What's more, by using the Amazon custom software, you can be confident that your work will meet all of Amazon's requirements.I use a case study of my own mystery novel to demonstrate how Kindle Create works in the real world.No theory, no fluff or padding. Just simple, clear instructions on how to leverage the power of Kindle Create to publish your novel.Discover how Kindle Create can save you time, money and frustration.This book is the step by step guide to self-publishing your novel that you have been looking for.

The self-publisher's bible! In this clear and entertaining ten-step guide, now in its eighth edition, a prolific American author tells how he formats his books using free software for upload to online bookstores. The secret, he explains, is to use the universal "epub" format to create a single e-book file that will be accepted by every digital retailer, from Amazon.com through Barnes & Noble, the Apple iBookstore, and smaller booksellers like the Canada-based Kobo. "Most beginners write their books in Word or Open Office," Notjohn says, "and then they up to upload the same document for conversion to an e-book. Sometimes it works; more often it doesn't, because these programs litter the file with hidden formatting. The result can be a disaster." Instead, the word-processing document should be converted to clean HTML, the markup language used to create a web page. (All e-books are web pages at heart, and the Kindle and other e-book readers are just special-purpose web browsers.) The conversion from document to HTML file takes seconds. It can then be plugged into a simple template that Notjohn includes in this Guide and also makes available on his blog for anyone to use. He also supplies a style sheet to format the book for best appearance on the Kindle, Fire tablet, the various Kindle apps, as well as on competing tablets and e-book readers. If all else fails, there's Plan B: a stripped-down template for novels and for non-fiction that consists mostly of text. He concludes with a chapter on how best to present your e-book on the Kindle platform, with hints on encrypting the book, copyrighting it, and pricing it for the greatest return. And new this year: a chapter on adapting the e-book to a print edition. With illustrations and screenshots. Revised and updated 2017edition.

""Steven Lewis is a Kindle expert. Follow his simple step-by-step instructions and you can't go wrong."" - Ryan Tracey "How to Format Perfect Kindle Books" is a step-by-step guide successfully followed by hundreds of writers who've turned their manuscripts into ebooks that sell. You wrote your book to be read so why leave it in a drawer when you can easily learn how to format it into a perfect Kindle book? With a little application you'll quickly have your ebook on Amazon where it can be found by the millions of readers who own Kindles or use Amazon's free apps for computers and smartphones. Learn everything you need to know to turn your manuscript into a perfect Kindle book, one that looks exactly how you want it to. Everything is broken down into steps and explained in plain English by the author of widely-read Taleist site for self-publishing authors. You couldn't be in better hands.

Finally ... a quick, easy reference to using your Kindle Fire -- to the max! ..................................................................................... About the author: Steve Weber is founding publisher of KindleBuffet.com, which showcases five-star Kindle books currently available free (you may never have to pay for books again!). .................................................................................... Amazon's Kindle Fire is the handiest tablet available, and is your portal to an infinite universe of education and entertainment. This valuable reference book explains how to quickly set up your Kindle, navigate the touch-screen, buy, rent or stream video, and browse the world's largest library of digital books. This reference guide demystifies the Kindle and explains in plain English how to master the Kindle basics, plus secret tips, tricks and shortcuts you won't find elsewhere. Each section includes clearly written step-by-step instructions, illustrated with screenshots and menus just like you'll see on your own Kindle screen.