Category Archives: ebooks

After the program tells you conversion was successful, be sure to preview it by loading it into the Kindle previewer.  Try out all the guide items and table of content chapter links.  Make sure you don’t have random blocks of … Continue reading →

Cover Images My books published through CreateSpace have cover images provided by CreateSpace in their cover creation  templates.  Some of the templates also allow you to upload an image you have created or own. If you have published a POD book … Continue reading →

Make it all html After the manuscript has been formatted to be html friendly, has a hyperlinked TOC, and appropriate bookmarks, ‘Save As’ your file in the format  ‘Web Page, Filtered.’  Don’t ask me why.  It’s an html thing. This … Continue reading →

Adding Guide Items Ebooks have “guide items” as a way to jump quickly to various parts of the book. At the least, you need to have three guide items: the cover “cover”, the Table of Contents “TOC”, and where the … Continue reading →

Adding a Table of Contents Go to each chapter heading, highlight it, and apply one of the styles (heading 1 or heading 2 are safest). If you right click on the heading style you can select “modify” and make some … Continue reading →

Start formatting Highlight everything and change it all into one of the ebook html-friendly fonts (Verdana, Tahoma, Arial – there might be others.) Insert a ‘page break’ after the last sentence of each chapter. Delete most blank lines between the … Continue reading →

Take It Out of the Tub Highlight the entire Notepad file and copy/paste it back into a new Word file, then ‘Save as’ this new file as  .doc file. (Give it a new name, like initials of book title + ebook )  This is … Continue reading →

Give Your File a Bath I’m not certain this step is necessary, but it worked for me. Click on your manuscript and “select all” to highlight EVERYTHING. Copy it and paste it into a program that strips all formatting codes … Continue reading →

Getting Started on the Conversion What format is your manuscript in now?  .Pdf? .docx?  .html? .doc? What you need to start the conversion is a sterilized .doc file. NOT .DOCX   –  So find the source file you used to make … Continue reading →