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CONTENTS Getting Started 1 ~ FIRST STEPSWorking with Word | Document Setup | Text Cleanup 2 ~ KINDLE FORMATTINGSpecial Characters | Font Formatting | Paragraph Styles | Paragraph Spacing | Paragraph Justification | Line Breaking | Page Layout 3 ~ SPECIAL ELEMENTSOther Paragraphs | Lists | Tables | Text Boxes and Sidebars | Footnotes and Endnotes | Pictures 4 ~ NAVIGATIONWeb Links | Internal Links | Tables of Contents | Menu Items 5 ~ FINAL STEPSHTML Export | Book Covers | Book Data | Submitting and Previewing ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE #1 By default, Word will apply the Normal style to your paragraphs. Amazon knows this, so for some Kindles, it hijacks that style, changing its formatting to what Amazon prefers. This can lead, for example, to unwanted space above or below a paragraph. If you want control of your own formatting, then, you'll have to avoid the Normal style and apply something different. There's no problem, though, with applying styles based on Normal, or even with applying a duplicate of Normal under a completely different name. In regard to this, watch out for manual page breaks in recent versions of Word. Unless you're in Compatibility Mode, each break is now placed in a paragraph of its own, and the Normal style is assigned automatically. That in itself isn't a problem -- but if you then hit Return and start typing, your new paragraph will be in Normal as well. (This is another reason to stick to the paragraph format setting "Page break before" to start a new page.) You can change all paragraphs already in Normal style to a different one by using the Format menu in the Find and Replace dialog. Don't enter any text, but place your cursor in first the Find box and then the Replace while choosing a style for each. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE #2 To save you some grief, I'll warn you right now that testing your Go To menu items may not do you much good. For example, due to numerous bugs, they are unlikely to work right or at all in files generated or even just viewed with Amazon's desktop Kindle Previewer. Your best bet is to test on a hardware Kindle with a preview copy converted on the Amazon KDP site. But even if you get everything to test perfectly, it may mean nothing, because Amazon KDP staff may manually change the "start" location after publication. Yes, they may simply move it where they think it should be, and without telling you! (As far-fetched as this sounds, it is not speculation. KDP staff will confirm this themselves, if you ask them -- as I have.) The only way to know if this has happened is to get a copy after the book has gone on sale. If you discover a change at that point, all you can do is ask KDP staff to change it back -- in the hope they'll comply -- or else send the book through again -- in the hope it will be treated better the next time. But on the Kindle as in life, there are no guarantees. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE #3 There's a great deal of confusion about Kindle tables of contents, and for good reason: There are actually two different kinds, and a Kindle book may have one, both, or neither. (Try to get Amazon to explain that to you!) The first kind is an HTML table of contents, also called embedded, internal, or inline. When you export to HMTL, Word will generate one from a linked table of contents you've constructed on a page of your source document. Creating that table in Word is the subject of this section, while the next one tells how to get a link to your table of contents from the Kindle's Go To menu. The HTML table of contents is the only kind you can export from Word. The second kind is an NCX table of contents, also called logical. NCX stands for "navigation control file for XML" or such, and it is a special type of file included in ebooks. The NCX file can be used to place content items like chapter headings directly onto the Kindle's Go To menu as a shortcut for readers. It can also set jump points for Kindles with physical navigation controllers. While an NCX table of contents is a nice convenience, you don't really need one, as long as you have the HTML table. But besides that, there is no way to generate an NCX table with Word alone. Creating the NCX file requires special ebook software or hand-building in HTML -- well beyond the scope of this book. So, if you're trying to keep things simple, I suggest you forget about NCX tables of contents. There's another reason you might want to ignore them: In late 2013, Amazon has been adding an NCX table of contents automatically to at least some books submitted without one. Chapter headings and other phrases might now be added to the Go To menu some time after publication -- not just by the time the book goes on sale!  If you see such items in the menu for this book, that's how they got there. Â
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BOOKS ON PUBLISHING BY AARON SHEPARD FROM WORD TO KINDLE: Self Publishing Your Kindle Book with Microsoft Word, or Tips on Formatting Your Document So Your Ebook Won't Look Terrible. Using Word to prepare a Kindle book isn't nearly as difficult as many will tell you, but it's also not as simple and straightforward as others claim. In this book, Aaron offers his own tips for creating attractive, professional text with reasonable effort.  PICTURES ON KINDLE: Self Publishing Your Kindle Book with Photos, Art, or Graphics, or Tips on Formatting Your Ebook's Images to Make Them Look Great. Almost everything you've read about formatting pictures for Kindle is wrong. Aaron brings his years of experience in book design, webmastering, and photography to bear on a single question: How do you make pictures look great on the Kindle? HTML FIXES FOR KINDLE: Advanced Self Publishing for Kindle Books, or Tips on Tweaking Your App's HTML So Your Ebooks Look Their Best. Saving HTML from Word or another program can bring you maybe 80% of the way to a well-formatted ebook -- but what about the other 20%? Aaron provides the tips to bring your Kindle book to the next level. THE BUSINESS OF WRITING FOR CHILDREN. Writing books for children is both art and business. If you dream of becoming a children's author -- or even if you're well on your way -- this handbook can help you in writing sellable stories, getting them published, and promoting your books. Read "The Business of Writing for Children" to learn the secrets you might spend years discovering for yourself. ADVENTURES IN WRITING FOR CHILDREN. Fifteen years after publishing "The Business of Writing for Children" -- Amazon.com's all-time bestseller among guides to children's writing -- Aaron returns with a new collection of articles on the art and business of creating literature for young people. Whether you're aiming at traditional publishers or choosing to self publish, let "Adventures in Writing for Children" help you pursue an adventure of your own.  AIMING AT AMAZON: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com. There has never been a self publishing manual like this. "Aiming at Amazon" is NOT about getting your book into bookstores. Instead, it lays out an innovative approach that targets sales on Amazon.com. It reveals how to make a book sell well online, with tips never before offered. And it doesn't stop there -- it gives you a way to publish your book that can greatly increase your profit per copy. Avoid publishing plans that handicap you almost before you begin. Let "Aiming at Amazon" introduce you to the NEW business of self publishing.  POD FOR PROFIT: More on the NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books With Online Book Marketing and Print on Demand by Lightning Source. CreateSpace uses it. Lulu.com uses it. So do AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Xlibris, and almost every other self publishing company in the US, Canada, and the UK. Lightning Source is the printer and distributor at the heart of the "print on demand" industry. So, why pay a middleman? In this follow-up to his groundbreaking book "Aiming at Amazon," Aaron Shepard explores how to greatly increase your profit by working directly with Lightning. If you're serious about making money with POD publishing, this book can show you the way. PERFECT PAGES: Self Publishing with Microsoft Word, or How to Design Your Own Book for Desktop Publishing and Print on Demand (Word 97-2003 for Windows, Word 2004 for Mac). Nowadays, new technologies and services have made it easier than ever to publish your book, but there's one question you may still face: Do I need an expensive page layout program, or can I just use a word processor like Microsoft Word? With this book as guide, you'll soon be producing pages from Word that no reviewer will scoff at.Â
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Series: Kindle Publishing (Book 1)
Paperback: 124 pages
Publisher: Shepard Publications (January 10, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620355167
ISBN-13: 978-1620355169
Product Dimensions:
7.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#549,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
One of Aaron's earlier books, Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com, was essential when I was graduating from being published by traditional publishers to being independently published by Create Space. That's been a huge success. I've never looked back.Now that I'm converting some of my older books to Kindle format, and writing new books specifically for Kindle, I knew I should see what Aaron says about that. I was correct, and the price of this Kindle book was a pleasant surprise, as well.I've found four major points that I'd overlooked when submitting earlier books to Kindle. Those books could have looked much better, and I may go back and reformat them following Aaron's advice. I'm not sure, yet.Though I'm on the fence about spaces between paragraphs in Kindle books -- frankly, I find it easier to read with the breaks -- I found several other formatting issues that I hadn't thought about before, and each of them is very important.Even if you're pretty sure that you know what you're doing with Kindle books, it's worth spending $1 to be absolutely sure. If you're like me, you'll be very glad that you did.I rarely give any book a five-star review, but this one comes close enough that I wish Amazon offered us a four-and-a-half-star option.
Version reviewed: 3.3.1, © 2011-2014.This weekend, I finally bit the bullet and accepted Aaron’s last bit of advice: place the table of contents (TOC) first. I hated to do this in a classic edition, but it was the only way I could get Amazon to set the Start Reading Location (SRL) close to where I wanted it to be: Don Quijote 1 & 2: Español - English (Spanish Edition)At this point, I don’t know if my relocation of the TOC took or not. As Aaron points out in his book, once you buy a copy of your own book, you can’t see what additional changes look like. You have to ask Amazon to replace your previous copy with your current copy. (If there are imperfections in my display or formatting, I can always blame Amazon for not letting me control them, but the most likely reality is that it’s my own fault for not following Aaron’s instructions to the letter.)Anyway, I can’t say enough good things about Aaron’s book. You can look at my book if you’d like to see the ~80% effectiveness of his recommendations for publishing using ONLY his MS Word edits, and not doing anything in HTML. I found his HTML book a bit beyond my reach. I found his MS Word edits to be easy to follow and delivering as promised in terms of left justification, style formats, and line spacing. All of these were extremely important to me since I was working with separate fonts for two languages, reduced fonts for chapter summaries, and hyperlinks all over the place to keep it together.If I have any criticism of Aaron’s book, it’s of the author himself. He seems to rejoice more in complaining than fixing the problem. The problem is Amazon’s one-size-fits-all approach to text justification and SRL. The solution is finding the right person in Amazon to bring up his (our) concerns. Surely Amazon is smart enough to offer the publisher a choice in how the text is displayed and starting location for reading when the book is first opened.The much touted ‘Enhanced Typesetting’ is Amazon’s solution to the small screen size offered by most reading devices. By forcing justification to both margins, large spacing between words is a given if the reader enlarges the text. Personally, I haven’t found this to be a problem in romance novels or mysteries--the two bestselling categories in Amazon. It is a major problem for books like mine, where there are lots of large words, which makes for serious space distortions if I were forced to use the ‘Enhanced Typesetting’. (The real solution would be left-justification with hyphenation for the most common words, but this is a functionality that’s beyond us at this point.)But using Aaron’s guidance, I could left justify through the whole book. You can do the same and more if you read “From Word to Kindleâ€. Hopefully someone at Amazon will be smart enough to bring Aaron on board as a consultant. He’s that good. His sense of independence and perfectionism may not allow for this, but it would certainly be my recommendation. (PS - the guidance put out by KDP is basic, out-of-date, and Microsoftesque in being technically correct but totally useless. Aaron on board, and this problem goes away.)All in all, this is a great book for guidance on formatting for Amazon. It’s the only book that I needed. Look no further if you want to publish an eBook.[BTW, I came across a book this week that opens on the title page--the logical location for beginning any book:Mountain Conquests . Don’t know how they did it, but it shows that it is possible to set a SRL. But as Aaron points out in his book, you’ll drive yourself crazy if you look for perfection in eBooks. So letting my book go as is...]So why only 3 stars. Three stars so that someone may actually read this review. Any more than that, and this review will taken as spam.
This book answered the questions I had in an intelligent, well-written way and was my companion as I published my first important Kindle book. If you don't care that much how your book looks on the kindle, this isn't the book for you. But if you have a book that needs to be published so that it looks professional and doesn't have rookie formatting errors messing up the flow, Aaron Shepard's book is a good one.I will add that this was NOT the only book I bought on how to format for kindle. This was actually my third. But the other two were so full of grammatical errors, typos and translation issues and missing some essential information, I had to turn to a third book to solve the spacing issues I was having. I wish I would have started with this one.
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