Kindle publishing is red-hot right now, and smart authors are making sure their books are available in physical book form by using Amazon’s print on demand service CreateSpace. It requires little technical skill to navigate either the Kindle or the CreateSpace publishing interface. It’s as easy as filling in the blanks and uploading your files.
Unfortunately, preparing those files for publishing is NOT so easy. As a result, many authors’ books are being rejected by Amazon, and/or receiving brutal reviews by readers. Kindle formatting is tricky, and getting a CreateSpace book formatted to look like a REAL book instead of a self-published one is a mystery.
With the Self-Publishing Tool Box you’ll find out how to format your book for both publishing platforms with ease.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
(Kindle)
• Which formatting you can use and which to leave out.
• How to create a hyperlinked TOC
• How to insert working hyperlinks into your ebook
• How to convert your Word doc to MOBI files using Calibre
• Step-by-step walk-through of Kindle publishing platform
(CreateSpace)
• How to set up your book’s interior template for any trim size
• Which pages you should always add, and the order in which they should be added
• How to create a TOC
• 9 “best practice” things to do to ensure that your book has that professional polish
• How to create running headers (this one is tricky, until you know how!)
• How to convert your Word doc to PDF with the correct settings for print
• Step-by-step walk-through of CreateSpace publishing platform
(For Both)
You’ll learn the basic promotional steps to get started promoting your book.
What you’ll receive:
• 1 Word .doc file: pre-formatted specifically for Kindle.
• 1 Word .doc file: pre-formatted for CreateSpace (6×9 trim size.)
• 1 Kindle Formatting & Publishing Guide: In PDF format. This will take you through formatting, using the template, converting your files, and publishing to Kindle.
• 1 CreateSpace Formatting and Publishing Guide in PDF format: This will take you through formatting, using the template, converting your files, and publishing to CreateSpace.
• Basic Book Promotion guide (PDF).
• 1 Kindle Publishing Checklist of all of the information in the guide. Check each step off as you go! In Word .doc format so you can change it to suit your own system.
• 1 CreateSpace Publishing Checklist of all of the information in the guide. Check each step off as you go! In Word .doc format so you can change it to suit your own system.
