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How to Use Kindle Create to Format an EBook

Christine John
Format eBook

Amazon has a free formatting tool called Kindle Create that you can use to convert your document into an eBook. Use Kindle Create to prepare your book for publication. This tool can be used to format a cookbook, a novel, a travel guide, a children’s book, and a comic book. Use this formatting tool to create professionally designed eBooks. In today’s blog post, I will show you how to use Kindle Create to format your document into a beautifully crafted eBook. Step 1: Download Kindle Create. Go to https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Create/b?ie=UTF8&node=18292298011 to…

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Five Mistakes to Avoid Before You Publish Your Manuscript

Christine John
woman typing

Are you getting ready to submit your manuscript to be published? If you are publishing your first book, it can be very easy to make mistakes in editing and formatting your manuscript, and also in designing the book cover. It is better to fix these mistakes now than to do it after it has been published. Here are five mistakes you should avoid before you publish your manuscript. Mistake #1: Not Reading Publishing Guidelines I made this mistake when I submitted my first book to be published on Kindle Direct…

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How to Self-Publish a Paperback Book to Amazon KDP

Christine John
Published Paperback Books

Last week we covered how to publish your book as a Kindle eBook. Today, I will show you how to format and upload your manuscript to be published as a paperback on Amazon. Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon offers a Print on Demand (POD) publishing service.  Twenty years ago, Amazon stored books in a large warehouse. When you ordered a book online, someone would have had to collect the book from the warehouse, pack it, ship it and deliver it to you. The beauty of POD publishing is that the…

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How to Format Your Book for Amazon KDP

Christine John
Format for Kindle

Last week we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing on Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital. Today we will cover how to format your book to publish on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). What this means is that you will be able to upload your completed manuscript to KDP so that it can be published as a Kindle e-book. If you wrote your book in Microsoft Word, then it will be very easy to format your book for Kindle. First, if you have not signed up with Amazon KDP, you need…

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