Building Your Book for Kindle Kindle Edition

Nice How-To Booklet for Self Publishers Trying to Format Their Book as DYI

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November 15, 2015

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Length: Print, 31 pages.

Amazon Kindle Sales Rank: 1,909.

This nonfiction how-to booklet is targeted to writers who want to self publish their work using Microsoft Word.

Building Your Book for Kindle is written in a straightforward manner in plain English, absent any swearing or humor. As other reviewers have stated, although this brief discussion is not especially different from the advice at KDP, it is organized in a bit more user friendly manner.

EXCERPT

Finishing Your Book

Once you have completed your book and edited it for Kindle, there are a few basic steps required before you can publish your book. These are outlined below:

Copyedit Your Manuscript

* Be sure to run a spell check on your manuscript. Kindle readers expect a professional book; a few misspelled words can make the difference between a four-star review and a two-star review
* Re-review the formatting tips from this guide's "Before You Write" section and verify you have not made any of the common mistakes. Using the show/hide [¶] feature in Word is the best way to make sure there are no tabs, repetitive carriage returns, and other formatting errors that will impair the formatting of your Kindle book
* If you have not done so already, have a friend proofread your manuscript. A fresh pair of eyes always helps, and it is easiest to fix any errors and make any required adjustments before proceeding to the next step.

Convert Your Manuscript to HTML
* Save your manuscript as a "Filtered HTML document" on your computer at a location you can easily find (such as your desktop). To do this, just follow these steps:...

Overall, Building Your Book for Kindle is a useful booklet for self publishers. Further, this could be a great selection in audiobook format at Audible.

3 people found this helpful

Excellent Resource for Writing, Editing, and Uploading your ebook to Amazon Kindle

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Erika

January 5, 2016

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I never knew that there were specific formatting guidelines for writing a Kindle / ebook. I always assumed that you could simply write your book in Microsoft Word, convert the file to PDF and upload it as an ebook. That however is NOT the case.

This book is a PERFECT beginner's guide for writing an ebook on kindle. It explains step-by-step instructions on how to format the book, the titles, images, table of contents, embedding links throughout your text, and so much more.

What is most helpful about this book is the instructions on how to upload your ebook's information into the Kindle program. There is more info than just the file of the book itself that needs to be completed (such as metadata and descriptions). This book walks you through all of it.

There are pictures included throughout the book to visually explain what you need to do in Microsoft Word to create an ebook that is easy to read.

I'm looking forward to using this resource for when I create my ebooks soon. It's excellent!

I received this product for free in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

3 people found this helpful

Read This Before Submitting Your Books

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Robin Joy Wirth

February 5, 2015

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I have been reading several "build for Kindle" type books lately, hoping to improve in that area. This one has been very helpful because it reminds me to do the little things like think outside numbered pages, which you don't use, and also using the style tool for title and headings and such, which I generally forget to do as I write. It's a great idea to make your chapter headings all the same even when you are preparing for createspace publishing because then you'd be able to simply change the font once. That is useful in the extreme in a 40 chapter work. It also made me think again about how the reader might wish to use a table of contents as a navigation tool, and best of all it told me how to do it. I'm thinking of resubmitting all my kindle books using these guidelines.

5 people found this helpful

Good step by step instructions and tips to proceed with turning an idea into a real book to share with others.

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