If you really don’t like the Kindle’s default chapter styles, then a workable alternative is to use an image instead. Of course, this means creating a different image for every chapter, which is time-consuming if your book is long, but it will look really nice if it’s done well. You could maybe ask the person […]
I can’t repeat how much of a timesaver – and good practice – it is to use styles in your word processor document. Not only does it give consistent formatting throughout but it’s also a real time-saver and it makes conversion a whole lot easier. In both MS Word and Open Office/Libre Office, you do […]
Following on from my post on CSS styles for headings, I’ll now go through some options for paragraph styles. As you’ll now know, paragraphs in HTML are based around the <p> … </p> tags. The instructions here represent a worse-case scenario where your conversion has carried over no formatting at all; if you apply Styles […]
In addition to the mobi format, used by the Kindle, the other widely used format is ePub. The ePub format is also based on HTML, although it offers more formatting options than mobi. The good news is that the all the HTML features I’ve described for Kindle conversion also apply to ePub. So you can […]
Where to sell your eBook isn’t a subject I want to go into deeply and there are several people on the web who are far more knowledgeable than me. However, it does have some implications for formatting and conversion, so I thought I’d better mention it. As far as market share goes, Amazon is the […]
These topics are really beyond the scope of this website – my intention was to persuade and help you produce nicely formatted eBooks. However, these are both options in the conversion process, so it would be useful to at least explain what these things are. ISBN ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s a […]
Section breaks By which I mean those fancy ornamental graphics that are used to start a new section within a chapter. There seems little agreement as to what they’re actually called; I have heard them described as dinkus, space break symbols, paragraph dividers, fleurons and glyphs. But when you see one, you’ll know what I […]
As an editor, here are the most common formatting and typographical errors I have to fix. Make a copy of your original book before doing any of this, just in case something goes wrong. I’m assuming here that you’re using MS Word, because most people are. However, the same principles apply in other word processors […]
In addition to the mobi format, used by the Kindle, the other widely used format is ePub. The ePub format is also based on HTML, although it offers more formatting options than mobi. The good news is that the all the HTML features I’ve described for Kindle conversion also apply to ePub. So you can […]
Where to sell your eBook isn’t a subject I want to go into deeply and there are several people on the web who are far more knowledgeable than me. However, it does have some implications for formatting and conversion, so I thought I’d better mention it. As far as market share goes, Amazon is the […]
These topics are really beyond the scope of this website – my intention was to persuade and help you produce nicely formatted eBooks. However, these are both options in the conversion process, so it would be useful to at least explain what these things are. ISBN ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s a […]
The good news is that you can generally do your self-publishing project with open source and free software. I imagine better, paid-for software is probably available, but I’ll leave that for other people to comment – sadly, I’m not in the pocket of Big Publishing (although I would like to be). In this area, the […]
In addition to the mobi format, used by the Kindle, the other widely used format is ePub. The ePub format is also based on HTML, although it offers more formatting options than mobi. The good news is that the all the HTML features I’ve described for Kindle conversion also apply to ePub. So you can […]
Where to sell your eBook isn’t a subject I want to go into deeply and there are several people on the web who are far more knowledgeable than me. However, it does have some implications for formatting and conversion, so I thought I’d better mention it. As far as market share goes, Amazon is the […]
These topics are really beyond the scope of this website – my intention was to persuade and help you produce nicely formatted eBooks. However, these are both options in the conversion process, so it would be useful to at least explain what these things are. ISBN ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s a […]
If you’re writing non-fiction, you’ll probably want to include references and possibly links to other parts of your eBook. Fortunately, both these features are supported and, as you’re probably aware, work on the basis of hyperlinks. The good news is that it’s much easier to do references and links in Word or Open/Libre Office, rather […]
I can’t repeat how much of a timesaver – and good practice – it is to use styles in your word processor document. Not only does it give consistent formatting throughout but it’s also a real time-saver and it makes conversion a whole lot easier. In both MS Word and Open Office/Libre Office, you do […]
Calibre is a popular, free eBook utility and offers a sometimes bewildering array of features and options, including eBook synchronisation, downloading web content and library management. While I urge you to explore all these, I’m just going to concentrate on HTML to Kindle format conversion. Calibre is available for all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux); […]
In addition to the mobi format, used by the Kindle, the other widely used format is ePub. The ePub format is also based on HTML, although it offers more formatting options than mobi. The good news is that the all the HTML features I’ve described for Kindle conversion also apply to ePub. So you can […]
Where to sell your eBook isn’t a subject I want to go into deeply and there are several people on the web who are far more knowledgeable than me. However, it does have some implications for formatting and conversion, so I thought I’d better mention it. As far as market share goes, Amazon is the […]
These topics are really beyond the scope of this website – my intention was to persuade and help you produce nicely formatted eBooks. However, these are both options in the conversion process, so it would be useful to at least explain what these things are. ISBN ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s a […]
In addition to the mobi format, used by the Kindle, the other widely used format is ePub. The ePub format is also based on HTML, although it offers more formatting options than mobi. The good news is that the all the HTML features I’ve described for Kindle conversion also apply to ePub. So you can […]
Where to sell your eBook isn’t a subject I want to go into deeply and there are several people on the web who are far more knowledgeable than me. However, it does have some implications for formatting and conversion, so I thought I’d better mention it. As far as market share goes, Amazon is the […]
These topics are really beyond the scope of this website – my intention was to persuade and help you produce nicely formatted eBooks. However, these are both options in the conversion process, so it would be useful to at least explain what these things are. ISBN ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It’s a […]
If you really don’t like the Kindle’s default chapter styles, then a workable alternative is to use an image instead. Of course, this means creating a different image for every chapter, which is time-consuming if your book is long, but it will look really nice if it’s done well. You could maybe ask the person […]
If you’re writing non-fiction, you’ll probably want to include references and possibly links to other parts of your eBook. Fortunately, both these features are supported and, as you’re probably aware, work on the basis of hyperlinks. The good news is that it’s much easier to do references and links in Word or Open/Libre Office, rather […]
I can’t repeat how much of a timesaver – and good practice – it is to use styles in your word processor document. Not only does it give consistent formatting throughout but it’s also a real time-saver and it makes conversion a whole lot easier. In both MS Word and Open Office/Libre Office, you do […]
Calibre is a popular, free eBook utility and offers a sometimes bewildering array of features and options, including eBook synchronisation, downloading web content and library management. While I urge you to explore all these, I’m just going to concentrate on HTML to Kindle format conversion. Calibre is available for all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux); […]
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