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2. Lecture 1. Stripping back the formatting of your text to create a simple document: Stripping back the formatting
of your manuscript. What makes electronic e-books different from printed books? During any conversion process to an ePub or Kindle Moby
electronic ebook file. Your doc manuscript is converted into a wreath flowable,
responsive e-book format. This type of file format can adjust to the orientation and the shape of the
contents according to the device your reader is
using to read the text, such as a tablet computer or laptop computer or mobile phone. In portrait or landscape mode. Your novel will
therefore be displayed correctly and fill the screen
or the readers device. Cannot direct publishing or ADP. You just a converter software
to transform your document into a reef flowable
Kindle Moby format file, which offers the end reader a wide range of
customer options, will show you familiar
with this already. As an example, Kindle e-books allow the reader to
resize the text and change the font on all the Kindle devices and the free Kindle app
reading applications. For example, on the
Kindle app on my iPad, I'm offered a range
of eight fonts. Amazon MBO, bold,
baskerville, Bulkeley, Cecilia, Georgia, Helvetica,
open dyslexic, and Palatino. Plus, there are five line spacing options to
select from and to. Font size adjustment buttons with a down-arrow to
reduce the font size, up out to increase
the font size. There's also four choices, a background page color. This level of user
customization means that the base coding of
the e-book must be as simple and as
logical as possible. Your book must be
standardized and will be standardized by the
GDP converter to make sure that the reading
experience for your book is consistent across
the large range of reading devices and
kindle apps now available. That's why the first
part of preparing your manuscript to be
published as a Kindle e-book is one of the hardest
Kindle create. Wonderful tool. Because it means that you don't have to know anything about coding to create a professional looking
e-book and paperback, which is fully acceptable to
the kVp converter program. It also works with several
word processing applications, such as Microsoft
Word, Apple Pages, OpenOffice Writer, Google Docs at other word
processing software, but exports to a doc format. It all cases. The first step in preparing your manuscript
to be converted using Kindle create is to remove all the formatting
from your document. This is hard, but
it must be done in order to have a
consistent style throughout your document. The style sheet for your
electronic book file works using general but
very simple styles. Instead as a formatting you used when you created
your text document. This because the software
has to convert it into a very flowable reef
flowable document encode. The simplest and
fastest thing to do is to get back
to the basic text, which means stripping out all of the formatting in
the entire document. This will ensure that you're not working with a document
where you have used different styles
for the same type of text in different parts
of the book or sections. Create a new copy of your
master text document to work on as your Kindle
master file. For word. Open your document, press Control a to select
the entire document. Then click the Clear
or Formatting button in the Font Header Menu
to remove all formatting. That's the little eraser
sign next to the capital a. This will clear all formatting
from your document. For Google Docs, press Control a to select
the whole document. Then go to format in the heading and select
Clear Formatting. The second step is a turnoff. Any automatic numbering,
an automatic bullet lists. I might be wondering why
we use this in a novel, but in some languages, the dialogue of a novel
is indicated with a dash instead of
a quotation mark. E-book Route readers can change that formatting and disrupt
the reading experience. So the end-user uncertain apps. This means that
you should replace Automatic Dialogue lists with manual dash marks if you want to use them to
indicate dialogue. Step three is to remove
the page numbers. Now this thing is bizarre, but electronic
documents don't use page numbers since they are one long continuous
stream of code. For word. Double-click
in the header or footer of your
document where you have your page number
at the moment. This will open up the header and footer page options
in your menu bar. Click the Remove
page numbers option. The page number tab. For Google Docs. Click in the header or footer of your document
where you have your page numbers and
delete the page number. This will delete it for
the rest of the document. Step four, remove the forced lung breaks
and paragraph breaks. Many writers use
the Enter key to insert an extra line
between paragraphs. All those extra brakes
have to be removed. It is very time-consuming. I know if this is a habit
you've got yourself into, but it needs to happen. Don't worry. We're going to add an extra
spaces between paragraphs, lights later in a
form of styles. But phenomenons be
taken out so that all your texts is space the
same way, which is single. Find all your forced line
breaks and paragraph breaks. Use Control plus a to
select the entire document. Then click the paragraph
mark in the paragraph menu. This is also known as
a pill Chrome. Ok. This will show you
all the formatting and hidden paragraph breaks that you have
accidentally inserted or deliberately inserted as
you wrote your novel. Now comes the difficult part. You need to go through
your document and delete any unwanted paragraph breaks
or soft carriage returns. You only have one
paragraph break at the end of each
paragraph of text. Step five, ensure all
chapters start on a new page. If you've been using
paragraph breaks on deliberate
carriage returns and enters to force to a new
chapter to start on next page, the process you've
just gone through and step four, well, of course, chaos in your document, the chapters will be
all over the place. For both Word and Google Docs, you need to insert a new
page break at the end of every chapter so that the
new chapter starts on a fresh page. You can do this. Use the Control plus Enter keys to insert
a new page break. Or you can use the Insert Page Break function
in Word in the Layout tab. Go to Layout tab, then breaks, then new page or insert page
break from the pages menu. Each chapter must
start on a new page. Removed double-spaced. It's so easy to accidentally
press the spacebar twice and insert a double-space between letters are at
the end of a sentence. Unfortunately, double-space
is really confused the e-book conversion
process and can destroy the entire smooth
reading or your novel. To find those
double-spaced says, use the Find and Replace tool in Word to replace a
double-space, single-space. So inward, go to
the editing menu. Open the Replace box and press the space bar twice in
the find what field. Then goes to the replaced with field and press the space bar. Once. You can also
use replace all, use the find next option to see where the
error has occurred. You'd be amazed how many double-spaced or
in most documents. Step seven, images. Some fiction authors like to use an image of, for example, their publishing logo or author brand on the
title page of that book. Have an author photo in
the About the Author page. Include book cover
images of this book or other books which are
available now on pre-order. The correct way to add
an image in the text. The front or back matter
of your novel is to use the Insert Image function of your word processor to make sure that the image
stays where you wanted to go. Don't wrap it around the text. Always have it in
line with text. This locks it onto
a separate line between two paragraphs
or text blocks. It won't get confused. To make sure that the image
stays where you won't. In Word, click on the image, then the image layout options and check that little box says in line with text that
should be shaded as live. In Google Docs, click on
the image and make sure that the inline option is live. That makes sure that
your document is clean and has the image exactly
where you want it to go. Kindle create does allow you to edit the image during
the conversion process, but the options
are very limited. And it will save lots of time
if the image is formatted correctly in the
original document before you upload it onto Kindle
create. Almost there. Now I want you to step eight, the final spelling
check and proofread. It's so easy to miss a word that has the correct
spelling, for example, whereas the totally wrong
word in that context, it won't be picked up by
automatic spell checks. You have to manually
proofread the document. Personally, I like
to read it out loud. Read it from the back forward. You're reading each sentence
as a stand-alone sentence. At the end of this step, you should now have a clean
version of your manuscript, which is very basic formatting, very simple text formatting. And it's now time to add the formatting
instructions back into the document using styles which we recognize buy
Kindle, Direct Publishing.
3. Lecture 2. Using simply styles to rebuild the Structure of your novel.: Lecture to using simple styles to rebuild the structure
of your novel. We have now stripped out all the formatting
of your manuscript. The text of your
troubles should be very simple and straightforward. We're going to introduce two
basic simple styles now, which kVp will use to generate a very professional
looking manuscript. The two key styles, the normal style for
the body text of your novel and the
chapter heading style. Step one, set the normal
body style for your text. If you have removed
all the formatting, the text of your
novel will already be set to the normal style. For most readers, reading
large amounts of text is much easier if the
reading is serif font. As a reminder, serif
fonts a little tails on the end like
Palatino, Georgia. Font size, I'm about 1011 or 12. It would be flowable documents
such as a Kindle e-book. The reader will decide on what
size font you want to use. So at this point, we're setting a very basic size for the font. I would recommend
something like 11 or 12. How to change the normal
style of your document? Go to the first paragraph
of your document, your texts to the novel and
select a few paragraphs. Style of that text will be displayed in the Styles
had a bar in Word. Experiment. Have fun,
change the font and the font size of
those few paragraphs until it really looks
sparkling and easy to read. They click on the normal
style which should be highlighted and then
click on Update. Normal, too much selection. Your normal style for the entire document
will now be changed to match the style of those
few paragraphs you have just changed
and customized. Writing in Google Docs, you found very similar process. Again, select a few paragraphs from the actual
text of your novel. Check that the header tells you this is the
normal text style. In the example, the
current font is Ariel 11. I want to change
this to Georgia 11. Then click into Format, normal text and right-click
or normal text. Update normal text to match. Again, this will
update the style of the normal text for
your entire document to the style you just set
for those few paragraphs. Then save a document. Step to set the normal body
style paragraph indent. Many novelists prefer to indent the text on the first line of each paragraph
to make it easier for the reader to go through
large amount of text in there novel of using
tabs, manual tabs. You set the first line of each paragraph using
what's called an indent. An indentation. This is in the paragraph styles. You can decide how much
of a gap you want to use. By setting the width
of that indent. Select those few
paragraphs again. The text of your document. Go to paragraph formatting. Paragraph options
from the homepage. Look at special
first-line indentation. I would recommend starting off with nought 0.3 centimeters. The equivalent of
the US, like click Okay to set the
paragraph indent. Some authors refer
or a wider indent, a bigger gap at the beginning of the first line
of every paragraph. If you want to do that, you
can set it to null point forward even nought
0.5 centimeters. So feel free to experiment
with a large block of text to see how changing the first-line indent improves or does not improve the reading
experience of your novel. See what it looks like.
You can always come back and change that indent width. Google Docs follow
the same process. Select a few paragraphs
of text in the chapter, first chapter of your novel. Go to the Format option in the header and then
a line and indent. Select the indentation options at the bottom of
the option range, and then special first-line
and set the indent you want. Again, you could be nor 0.3.4.5. I suggest starting with
null 0.3 and then apply. Step two has been done. Now you can go on and set the chapter headings
style. Step three. It's essential that
you tell the Kindle, kVp or Kindle create
conversion software where your chapter starts and
where your page titles are. The system must be able to
recognize the headings so that the key DCP converter can create an automatic table
of contents for you, which will be displayed
electronically with the Kindle e-book
file for your work. Chapter titles and
section headings to death remark as
header one style. If you want them to be included
in the table of contents. In both Word and Google Docs, simply click the chapter
title of the first chapter or page heading and select the
heading one style from other, the heading line or
the format line. The easiest thing
to do is to work through your check your text, your manuscript of your novel, and change any heading
that you want to have in your table of contents to
the Heading one style. This includes the title heading
page of the front matter. That's the copyright page about the book notes
on the author. Any page you want included
in the table of contents, then every chapter title, new chapter, and
then in the back of the book and the
acknowledgments, the About the Author page and
other books by the author. Any title you want me
to go to the table of contents must be set
to a heading one. This makes it much easier for the Kindle conversion
process to work. And it makes sure that you know exactly what's gonna be in
your table of contents. Don't forget, you can change the style of heading one
later in Kindle create. In Google Docs,
the same applies. Click on the normal
texts header and then click the down arrow to select heading one and then
apply heading one. Work through your
text and change the chapter headings and all the page headings to
the Heading one style. For check your documents
for heading styles. You can update the font and the font size of the
chapter headings and sent to them a few ratio have them aligned to the left. Work through your
document and apply the saved heading one style in every chapter title and page title that you
want to be included. Just make sure that
your copy that the old look consistent
style heading one. Then save new Docs file or
export to a new Docs file. Great. Your document is now ready to be converted into a Kindle e-book.
4. Lecture 3. How to download the Kindle Create tool: Now that you have formatted your Word document and created a very clean, simple formatting. It's time to start
using Kindle create. The first step is to
download the Kindle create two instructions on how to download the conversion
tool in two places. First on the kVp website, and secondly from inside
the Amazon.com Kindle Store. You have a Windows PC. You can click on the
Download Now button. Confirmation box appears. Click Save file will then be prompted to save
the installation to your downloads folder. But you can change the
location to anywhere you want. Click Save. Then open your downloads
folder or the location you've saved the installer to and double-click the installer file. The installer wizard
will then open, read through the license
agreement and click. I agree. You will then be
prompted to install Kindle create in the
default location. We can change the location to anywhere on your
desktop or laptop. Clicking store will then receive a success message when the installation
is complete, the run Kindle create boxes
unchecked by default, but you can change this. Then click Finish. Installation. You can
launch Kindle create by selecting the Windows
key than Amazon. Then Kindle create
a Macintosh PC. Click the Download Now
button from the same screen. Download begins. Click the Show downloads button. Then double-click
the installer file and the installation
wizard opens. There are six steps in this. Click Continue, read through
the license agreement, click continue and
then click Agree. Prompted to install kinda created the default
location on your Mac, but you can change the location, click continue and
then click Install. You will receive success message when the installation
is complete. Then click close. After installation, you can launch Kindle
create by selecting the launchpad and
then Kindle create.
5. Lecture 4. Getting Started on Kindle Create: Now you have downloaded
the Kindle create tool. We can get started working on
our novel inside the tool. This is your welcome
screen to kindle create. There are two options. You can resume an existing
project by clicking on the file on your hard drive
or MacBook or laptop. Or you can select a
new project from file, which takes you to
the whole curried Kindle create process. Let's start work on that. Kindled create launch screen. Click the New Project
from File button. You can also launch
a new project by selecting File
their new project, or using the keyboard
shortcut Control plus n or Command plus
n for Mac users. The contract language, select
the language of your book. Does not change the language
of the Kindle Create menu, by the way, is only the
language of your text. The Choose File dialog
button is displayed. Click the novel essays, poetry, narrative,
nonfiction option. Then click the
Choose File button. Navigate to the document of your novel on your
local hard drive. Select the file and click Open. Once you have selected a file, Kindle create starts to
convert it to a Kindle e-book. The conversion system optimizes the font faces, line spacing, margins, indents,
and other types of features to improve the
reading on electronic devices. It also creates a page break in your document into
a new section. While your files importing
Kindle create displays, rotating screens, or tell you much more about the
Kindle create system. When the conversion finishes, the input successful, a
dialog box is displayed. Click the Continue button. Let's start with automatic
chapter recognition and the table of contents. Click the Get Started
button and Kindle create begins to find the
potential chapter title elements in your book. The automatic chapter titles
dialog box is displayed. The convergence system
reads the header one style. You put into your
Word document or a Google Docs document
as a chapter title. And it will use
this chapter title in the Table of Contents which displayed electronically on
Kindle books and kindle apps. This is your choice to decide which pages on which chapters you want in the
Table of Contents, electronic Table of Contents. Check through that. The list of chapter titles that system suggests is correct. This is very important, is this is the list will
be used to generate the automatic electronic table
of contents for your book. The suggested chapter titles dialog box displays a list of the possible chapter
titles based on everything that you've said is heading one in your document. Deselect any unwanted results and accept to save all
the other suggestions. So you check those boxes, which you want the list to be excluded in the table of
contents for your novel. For example, in the
case that the novel, I did not want the contents page to be included in the
table of contents. I uncheck that box, then click accept selected. The dialog box. You can also click a
chapter heading to go to that section and apply formatting while keeping the
suggested title checkboxes, dialog box open. You can now go through
the help tutorials and dive into the system.
6. Lecture 5. Select a Theme: Started on Kindle
create lecture three. Kindle creates themes. This is a very useful feature
inside Kindle create, which helps you to format
the text and chapter headings of your document without doing any
additional work. Next to the Save button in the top right header
is the theme button. The modern theme is the
default active theme. But you can use one of the other three things if you prefer. These things have been designed
so that all the elements, which is what Kindle create
calls the sections of your document are
standardized for that theme. This is the system that
can create users to automatically
generate an IV form. Reflow will document
inside the Kindle create program which you know will
work with kVp publishing. Select a theme and make it much easier for yourself at the
very start of the process. For most novels, the modern or a morpheme works very well. But take time to experiment
and select each theme in turn and see what your document looks
like using that theme. It we don't like how
the theme looks. Use the Undo arrow at the top left of the page to
return to the modern theme. You should note that
if your document is in one of the supported
index languages, hindi, Tamil, Malayalam,
Murthy, akio, Gujarati. Kinda create otoscope
light displays the classic and
modern Theme Options. There are four aspects of every theme that
you should look out for and check carefully on how
they appear in your novel. First of the chapter title
is always an uppercase. But compare the font used. Does this font match with the style and genre
of your novel? Readers have very
clear expectations on how the document looks like
the certain types of novel. Then the chattel subtitle,
lowercase or uppercase. What kind of font or the
using it in italics, is it centered or slightly to
align to the left or right? Then the body texts styling the standard Kindle e-book
style is fully justified. That's because it's a reflow will document in the house to fill the space inside. Kindle apps are reading devices, but you can't add
paragraph breaks and indents to break up
large blocks of text. That doesn't seem
separate a style. If you have scenes
which continue inside the chapter and they
break into another scene, you can use a scene
separate a style. Each theme has a unique
scene separator style which matches the styling
of that particular theme. Experiment, find out
what yours looks like. The system will recognize if you have indented your paragraph and also if you've used an existing seen sequitur
style in your text document, such as three asterisks. The modern theme is the
default Kindle create theme. And it's very adaptable
to both fiction and nonfiction eBooks
and print books. The chapter title is centered at a large capitals and a subtitle is in italics
and just below the title, it works very well. The classic theme, you'll notice that both the chapter
title heading and subheading use a serif
font or left aligned, and the subheading
is it Italica. This is in contrast
to the modern theme, where the chapter
heading is centered and uses a non serif font. The scene separator is made
up of three large asterisks, larger than those used
for the modern theme. But they're both centered. This very well in
certain types of novel. The best thing to do is to
experiment with your novel. For all four themes. Evaluate how your document looks when you apply
those themes to it. The animal theme, the
chapter title font is a very decorative
grand vibes font and centered and the subtitle
is also serif and centered. On the other hand, you might be writing science fiction or fantasy and quite a non serif
font in the Cosmos theme. The choice is entirely yours and it's very genre specific. So do experiment with how each of these four
themes looks in your work. This is the Cosmos theme. You see how graphic it is. How the scene separate, use a small triangles
instead of asterisks. The animal theme uses
the ground vibes font. It's very decorative,
but for romances and certain other and contemporary
and historical novels, it's an excellent thing to use. The scenes separator
follows on from the ground vibes font and
it's very decorative scrolls.
7. Lecture 6. Demonstration of Kindle Create Options: Welcome to kindle create the new software provided by Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, designed specifically to
help you as an indie author, create beautiful Kindle e-books and paperbacks which you know, will be accepted on kVp. That's Kindle Direct
Publishing first-time because you're using
their specific software. When we download the software, you will find a welcome
screen like this. You start by creating a
new project from file. Your work is a novel. Then you choose your file
from your hard drive. Gdp will then open your file, convert it into the
format it needs to open the document and edit it and give you some content pins to
look at what it's doing. So the first thing to look at is this
suggested chapter titles. The system has recognized
that you used Heading one settings for titles
in your document. Created a model table of
contents from that list. Let's extend that down. This will be the
electronic table of contents for your Kindle
e-book on the Amazon system. What you want to do is
delete any unwanted results, except the others to
say the suggestions. They're suggesting titles here. I don't want that title. Or about the book. I do want all the
chapter titles. Click and delete the tick next to anything you don't want. Then accept the selected. Done. So you'll see
this screen appear. This is telling you that
you can now prepare an e-book and a paperback
from the same file. This system is embedded testing, but it means that you can create a paperback right now from within the
Kindle create system. There are some paints here
to tell you what to do. Work through those have
a read and then click on the Next button until
you've closed it. Let's go right back to the start using the
scroll bar here. Do you get your title page? Now we can start exploring
the Kindle creates screen. On the left, you'll see the pages of your
document according to the chapter titles and the
title, you have designated. The contents as an undo button. Insert button. On the right. You'll see these elements
and formatting suggestions. Elements are part of the
document with the kVp system recognize as being crucial the working of your
document as a novel. These are the common ones, but there's also three groups, title pages, this
is the title page. Bookstores and bookend pages, which you can expand by
clicking this arrow here. The book Body, actual text. Book started ink pages. That's what we call front
matter and dark matter. And this is actually
the body of your text. But for right now, we're
looking at the title page. Highlight the title
of your book. This is the case study we're
using for this tutorial. It's a cozy mystery called
murdered mozzarella. If the book title, so I'm clicking on book
title on the elements. It changes the font. It does so because it's
applying a standard theme. Because the text on Kindle
e-books has to be flowable. They have to use very
simple font selections. If you look at theme here, there are actually four
themes to choose from. Modern, classic,
cosmos and ammo. The default is the modern theme with what I'm seeing here. If I click on Classic and then select it changes the font. This is actually a serif font. Go back to themes. If I clicked on Cosmos
and did select. It's a much more
graphic non serif font. The last theme is among
the very decorative font. I actually like ammo for
the chapter titles later. But one brilliant
technique they use within Kindle create is that if
you click on formatting, you can actually change the
font of your titles and change the font used
in the element is telling me here that the current element is book title and the
font is grand vibes. If I click on this down arrow, I have three other
fonts to choose from. There's Berkeley,
which is serif, MBA, which is Sans-serif. Monospace. I quite like the Amazon
MBA. We're going for that. Navigating to the author title. This is another element,
so I'll click back into elements and going
to author name. It then applies the author
named styling for that theme. I quite like the
image on the bottom, so that is the title page done. Then we press Save to save the Kindle create
theme on your desktop.
8. Lecture 7. Formatting using Kindle Create: Now you have selected
the Kindle create theme. We can start work on formatting
the pages of your novel, starting with the front matter, those pages in
front of the text. The simplest way to get
started is to work at the very beginning of
your book and work through the page one
section at a time. Don't worry, you
can easily change the appearance of every
element in the book using the formatting options on the right-hand side panel in
your Kindle create screen. Here are the components
of an NG novel. The front matter, the body text, and the button back matter. The matter for fiction, ebooks. This is also called the
preliminary matter. Basically, the front matter is everything that precedes
the main text of your book. The front matter
in a modern novel is usually very
short and simple. Kindle create calls
these book start pages in the text
property sidebar on the right of your
Kindle creates scheme, you'll see a list of elements
for the title pages. These are preformatted
templates. Let's start with a title page. Title, page options. The book title, book subtitle, author name apart title. If you have your book
in many parts and your part title subtitle. There are also a
book Start elements, which has the page title, the first paragraph,
a dedication. If you want to use
one, an opening quote which many
authors like to use, opening Cote credit
for that quote. And the copyright tasks. Again, these are templates
which could create, has created for you and you
know that kVp will accept, don't be frightened
to using them. But let's see how we can
use them in practice. Let's start with the
very first page of your book, the title page. This has the title of your book, a subtitle, if you're using one and the name of the author. You can also add an author
or publisher brand image on the title page. Kinda create gives you the key elements of
that per title page at formatted for the four themes that you've already seen
in the previous lecture. The title page. This is the title page of the case study
reasons tutorial is a short cozy mystery
called murder and mozzarella by the
author Sophie Brent. This is what the
title page looked like when I uploaded
the document. You recall that we stripped out all the formatting of the novel, including all the
vaulting, the title page. So now we have to
go in and style this title page using
Kindle, correct? The first thing to do
is select a theme for the novel and evaluate what the title page looks
like for each theme. Since this cozy mystery was intended to be a
very light fun read, I wanted something decorative and I chose the amore theme. Unfortunately, when
it was converted, the text to me is to decorative
and difficult to read. We then go to the
formatting option, which is on the right-hand
side to change the font. Customize the book
titled page for all the themes by going to the text properties
sidebar on the right. This is where you
will see a list of elements for the booth
for title pages. These elements, as a reminder, our preformatted template pages, which you can use to format
each part of your novel. You can see there are five
options for the title page. Highlight your book title, text, and click on book title. The formatting then starts when the system applies
a theme that you had chosen to that book title. You can choose from ammo. Then move over to any of
the other three options. If I then click on the
formatting option, the second option
after elements, I can change the text. Even though it's in the ammo, a theme to one of three others, Bulkeley, which is serif, Amazon MBA, which is some Serif. Monospace. Here is what the title
page looked like. What I clicked on. The Amazon MBA, the
monospace, the Bulkeley. You see the difference
between the three phones. This is the standard non
serif and Amazon MBA. Monospace is very
graphic and on Serif, and Berkeley is serif. You can then customize the same, use the same process, both a subtitle on
the author name. If you have a subtitle
for protection, same process, we use
this to main title, highlight the subtitle text, go to the right-hand
side board and elements, and click on book subtitle. If it looks fine,
brilliant if it's not used the formatting option, which this on the
right to change the text font of
that title subtitle. Do the same thing with
your author name. Select your author
name on the text. Then go to the
elements and click on author name and then
format it if necessary, using the formatting option. Say the document, which
the Save button at the top right of
the screen after each element has been formatted. Right page is the next part of the front matter
of your book. Many authors prefer
to use this page to describe other elements of their work and links
to their website, as well as having a copyright
for the individual book. In addition, many
indie authors refer to move the copyright
page of the back of the book that is not included in the look inside samples
that Kindle e-book. In a print book. The top, the copyright page is always just after the title
page, but you can't move it. It's not a problem. Copyright page should have all the publishing
information about the book, including the publisher's
name and contact details, which could be a
website address, the date of publication
on a publishing history. There's additions and formats. Perhaps you may
have an e-book and a Kindle e-book and
also a print book. The copyright line, this is given as the
copyright symbol, followed by the author's name, copyright holder's name, and the year the first publication. For example, copyright
symbol Jane Jones, 2019. Copyright notice and
assertion of rights. Then any catalogue details
such as British Library at the Library of Congress who
hold catalogs of new books. This is for print books only. But it can apply to
your book if you already have a print
copy of that book. Isbn has lots of
confusion about ISP DNS. The International
Standard Book Number is the unique identity code
for your book in the world. It is 13 digit number. Identifies the title, edition, format, binding,
release date, list, price, and publish of any given format of any
work in the public domain. It's the metadata for your book. It's everything about that book which is unique to that book. In theory, you should have a separate ISBN for printed
book, an audio book, or graphic novel,
and each type of digital format you
have for your novel, including the Kindle,
EPUB and PDF, etc. Items that don't require ISBN is including journals,
calendars, music CDs, graphic, pictures,
images, photographs, gains, greeting cards, etc. Lots of confusion about ISBN arises to the fact
that simultaneous think that's a
legal requirement. It is not a legal requirement in the UK or public or
violent for nice bn. It conveys no form of legal
or copyright protection. It is used solely as a product identification
number to allow book wholesalers to
handle your book in the system and
booksellers to order it. Do you need an ISBN? That depends entirely on
your publishing model? Some authors loved the idea
of having their name in the print book as
both the author and the owner of their
own publishing house. It can be great
fun coming up with your name or
publishing company and designing a logo
for the spine of your print book or other books? Isbn for a Kindle e-book, the answer is no, you do not. Simply because amazon
gives each book attend digit Amazon standard
identification number, an asean, which is unique to the e-book inside the
Amazon Kindle store. An ISBN for a Kindle
e-book is totally wasted. It will not be used. Do you need an ISBN from
Amazon print paperback? The answer depends completely on what you want to do with
your print paperback. Don't forget, Kindle
create gives you the option to create paperback
using the same file. We need to consider this
carefully this point. If you plan to publish your printed book as
an Amazon paperback, only, the answer is no. You don't need to buy an ISBN. Amazon will provide you with a free ISBN to publish
your paper back. The publisher of the
book are listed on Amazon and on your book file. And are you book description
on the Amazon store? Ask independently published. The key thing to remember
is that Amazon will own the ISBN for this book. They have to buy one. Amazon already registered as the publisher of
that book, not you. On the other hand,
if you want to ship your printed book outside of the Amazon store in the
expanded distribution option, then the answer is yes, you do need an ice
began to distribute your book through the retail
system outside of Amazon. The ISBN is used to order and trachea book and
all the wholesale systems and ordering systems which booksellers and
other departments use. It does depend entirely on what you're publishing model is. In summary, you don't need
an ISBN for a Kindle e-book. And you don't need
an ISBN if you only want to print your
Amazon paperback inside the Amazon Kindle
store to consider. But ISBN, which many
authors unaware of ISPs aren't free
accepting Canada. And you may need to
purchase bundles of ten numbers or more to
make it cost-effective. It's always a good idea to
consider how many books you'd like to publish
in the future before investing in a bundle of codes. How much they cost
at the time of writing this book, this course, bokeh in the USA, costs $125 for one ISBN. Bundle of ten, ISBN costs
295 US dollars from bunker. In the UK. One ISBN from Nielsen costs 89 pounds and a bundle of
ten ISBN cost 159 pounds. Let's give you an
example of the cost for a single ISBN and the
cost of tennis bands. When you buy an us begin, you are registering yourself as the publisher of your book. On the registering
body will ask for the name publisher
for their records. Therefore, consider
yourself very carefully what name
you're going to give you a publishing company before you register an order, the ISBN. This will be fixed
forever with your book. For example, I
published my work under the company name
Harrington digital. But some of my work,
since you know, Harrington is my brand, but I could have
chosen a NMR light which are suitable
for the genre. And the total book
I am publishing, which is linked to your
unique author brand. Always do an internet search to make sure the name you have chosen has not already been chosen by the publishing
company owner, the indie author, public legal deposit library copies as image to publish in the UK. You'll be invited to
provide free of charge, five copies of each printed
book for a National Archives. In addition, your supply one copy of each printed
book, the British Library. These copies have to be
ordered from Amazon paperbacks and approach to the libraries
at your own expense. Similar legal deposit
library schemes exist in many other
countries and you will be contacted by the
registration body and asked to supply
free copies to them. You do need an iceberg, degenerate the barcode on
the back of your print book, which is a requirement
for printing. One final point, I
want you to consider, how often you notice
the publisher of the book when you buy
a print book or Amazon. Most readers don't notice the
name of the publisher that looking for the content of
the book and the author name, they'll think very carefully. Decision has to be
a personal one. You must decide for
yourself whether you want your novel to be
exclusive to Amazon, or it will, or if it will be ordered by other people
from bookstores. Dedication page,
kinda create has a template for dedication,
which you can use. Some fiction authors include
a personal dedication in the front of their novel
is entirely optional. If you want to
format dedication, you can use the formatting
tool inside kinda create. By convention. The Texas Education
is short and his centered on the page in
contrast to the body text, which is always
fully justified in Kindle e-books, motor pages. Many published authors,
especially in the author's, to further have
additional material in the front of their book, which is included in the
look inside feature on Amazon Kaepernick ADP
e-book Kindle Store. This could include
advanced praise for the book about the book
and author note and any acknowledgment
about the book can be very useful
tool for indie authors to attract readers across their mailing list
by offering them a free offer and also to introduce your book if it's the first book in
the new series, they're very useful
pages to have. If you want to include
additional front matter pages, such as notes on the
author or about this book. You can use the
page title template from the book start pages, elements inside Kindle create. The heading of this page
will appear in the table of contents if you select
it as a chapter heading, but don't forget
you don't have to. You can de-select. It. Highlights the title of
your additional page, then click on page title in the bookstore at elements
and then formatting, if you want to add additional
formatting to that title. The table of contents page. The wording of each
entry of the table of contents should
match the headings and the checks of the book. The electronic
table of contents, it's January to automatically
buy Kindle create. You don't have to create one in your original
text document. But I believe it's
always good to do so in the front of your book. Insert a table of contents just before the beginning of
the text of your novel. In your original Word document. Check that the hyperlinks
are still working. The chapter titles. When you transfer across
the Kindle create, you can do this using the
Kindle preview is green, which in the top right of
your Kindle create two. This will tell you
the electronic table of contents generated
for the Kindle book, but will also tell you if you
scroll through the pages, if the hyperlinks in
your table of contents inside your text document
are still a working. For example, in the
case study book, I created an electronic table of contents in my Word document by using the insert table of contents within the references. Custom table of contents
option inside Word. Google Docs use the Edit, Insert Table of Contents. And don't forget, because
this is an ebook, you'd be using the hyperlinked as opposed
to the page numbers. Kindle create will treat
this another page in your document and
maintain the links of chapters and headings
if you wanted to, you don't need to delete it. In fact, I would recommend
that you don't delete it. Many readers find this very useful to have it inside the document as
well as electronic. So it is totally up to you, but I think it's useful to have that table of contents
inside your document. If you go ahead and create paperback book inside
Kindle, create. This table of contents will be automatically converted
to page numbers, both on your book
on electronically.
9. Lecture 8. Adding and editing Images : Building a Kindle e-book
using Kindle create, lecture five, adding
and editing images. Create has been designed
for text heavy document, such as fiction books
and such as novels. But it does allow you to insert, resize, edit, and delete
images from your document. There are also specifications whoever which you
need to be aware of. The images must be JPEG format, not PNG, and at least
a 100 pixels long. Ideally, there should be good quality high definition
images so they don't appear blurry on the newer higher
resolution Kindle devices and kinda reading apps. So that means at least
300 dots per inch. As we discussed in the formatting of your
original text document, the best place for
an image to be inserted is below
a block of text as a standalone image in line with the text that is not wrapped around or inside
a block of text. So that when you load the
document onto Kindle create, the image is already in
the best place for it. Can do. Create will then
allow you to edit that image. To add an image to your e-book. Right-click the location
where you want to insert the JPEG
image and insert, insert image from the menu. The insert image window appears. Choose the image you want to coat your computer
and click open. The image properties
are then displayed in the properties pane on the right-hand side
of your screen. You notice something
called alternative text. This is a few lines of texts which will help
blind or visually impaired readers to know what the image is about and
why it's in your book. If you have a purely
decorative image such as a flourish or a scroll or some other artwork
inside your novel. Then you can tick
the box which says exclude this image from
the screen reader. Also notice there are four boxes for altering the
size of the image. Small, medium, large and full, and also the position
of the image, left aligned, center,
and right aligned. The size of the image is a very important
feature to consider. There are multiple options
ranging from small. We have 33% of the
screen width to fall. A 100% of the screen width. Consider reading experiences
on Kindle Apps and kinda reading devices
for your e-book novel. If for example, you have an author photograph in
your About the Author page, you would like to have that
image as a medium-size or large size rather than
filling the entire screen. You'll notice that also that you can place an image centrally, which is the ideal position
for small and medium images. Large and full images are
automatically centered. For an e-book or images which extend beyond the preset
margins of your page, the outside of the paper. Using bleed on images in a doc file is currently a pre-release feature
within Kindle. Really create. If you think about it. If you have an image inside your novel which is going beyond the
margins of your page. This is quite unlikely, but you may have and some artwork such as a background image,
which you want to do. So in most cases, the default is placed
within the margin. This will ensure that the image is central on the page and then the margins and viewing
experience for your reader. Whenever Kindle app
the reading on. You don't want the text of your novel to be
completely destroyed. Reading experience be
completely destroyed by the fact that you have
a huge image to deal with. Placing the image
edge to edge will lock the content into the profit orientation
for the book, which means that
your reader can only read your book in portrait mode. This is clearly an issue and
Amazon are working on it. Here's a worked example. The case study cozy mystery. The image on the left is the document which I
uploaded to kindle create. I started to include an image of my brand logo below
the author name, but I wanted to replace him. It was a larger one and
slightly different design. To replace an image, right-click the existing image and a pop-up window will appear, which says delete in
which our Replace Image, click on Replace Image. You can also go to Edit in the left-hand menu and click on the plus button
which has inserted. You can then click on image to add a new image in its place. To remove an image. Just right-click the image and select Delete Image
from the pop-up menu.
10. Lecture 9. Formatting the Body Text: Formatting the body
text of your book. Each new chapter will have a chapter title and
we'll start a new page. And the body text follows
below the chapter title. If you've a very long book, you can use parts to separate the book intersections and
start each part on a new page. Kindle create software provides
two standard serif and two non serif fonts for the header style
and the body text. Your novel, I would recommend the Seventh Style averages in the formatting
the original texts, we focused on two elements
of the manuscript, the chapter title
and the body text. Let's start with formatting the chapter title,
the chapter heading. Select the heading and go
to the elements section on the Text Properties
and scroll down to Book body and click
on Chatter title. This will format the
chapter title based on the theme you selected
for your work. If you click on theme, you'll see the default
is the modern theme, which was the chat
as style here. There's also the classic
theme, the Cosmos theme. The theme like the morpheme
which matches the genre, which is a cozy mystery. But I'm a little concerned
about the size of the text. I'm going to go to
formatting and increase the size of that text
is currently 28. And grand vibes, I'm going
to increase it to that size. That's a bit large. So let's select that and do a medium on 36 would
work. Yes, that's fine. This is the chapter title. It's grand vibes for theme are more and
are treated to 36. Now let's look at
the first paragraph. If you formatted to
the normal style by stripping out the
original formatting as in the previous
presentations. We now have all the texts
in the standard format with a small indent at a tiny
paragraph break between. Select the first
paragraph and go back to elements were in body text, text properties, body text. And you'll see at
one of the elements is chapter first paragraph. Click on that. Kinda create immediately
creates a space between the chapter
title and the text of the first line of
your paragraph also inserts a large letter which
is known as a drop cap, the first letter of the first
line of your paragraph. And it removes the indent. If you go to formatting now, you'll see a whole new range
of options has appeared. Let's start with a drop cap. That to me is rather large, so I'm going to highlight
the drop cap like that and go across
to apply a drop cap. You'll see that the
currently it's set at three. I wanted to reduce this to two by clicking the down arrow
next to Apply Drop Cap. This immediately takes
a delta two lines of text as opposed to
three lines of text. The spacing between the letter which has been enlarged
and the first letter, the sentence is this gap here. And you can make it wider
or you can make it lower. I think that's neater with one letter as a drop
cap and the rest rate. Now let's start
work for my seeing the body text of your document, the actual novel part
of your document. This is the first chapter. We've done the title and we've
done the first paragraph. Let's look at the
next two paragraphs. There are three elements
to consider here. First is the indent, the first line of
that paragraph. We set that up when we created the original
text document. If you're happy with it, it should be carried over. Leave it exactly as it is. If you decide you
want to change it, select a paragraph
or two paragraphs. There's no element for that. This is a normal body
texts go to formatting. You'll see a whole range of other options appear on
your left, right-hand side. Normally looking at is
indent the first line, which is this one here. You can start
experimenting with it. This is a three we had earlier. You increase it to four
or even five or more. Experiment. See what it looks
like, change it around. The text, by the way,
is fully justified. This is the default normal
textures duplication alignment for Kindle e-books. The next element to look at is the space between
the paragraphs. This makes a document
much easier to read. Again, select a couple of paragraphs of your
main body text, not the first, 1, second
or third will be fine. Go to spacing. The spacing between the
paragraphs is this box here. Look what happens when I
increase it with the up arrow. Personally, I think is
fine as it is and I want to leave it as it is. I'm not going to
change that at all. The next element is the width of the spacing
between the lines. You familiar with
the term single fonts and single-spaced,
double-space? This is the spacing option here. Currently, it's at one
which is single-spaced. It's got an up and
down arrow here. For those two paragraphs. We can increase it to
one and a quarter or 1.5 or even double line spacing. Personally, I'd rather
leave as it is. The reason is when we publish
our book, the end-user, the reader will be able
to adjust that spacing, the style they prefer. Some people like to use very
large letter single-space. Other people wanted
a half spacing, but let them choose. Right now, you're creating a standard format document which Kindle create can publish
as a Kindle e-book. Let's just summarize. We've formatted the chapter
title using the theme and then formatting to set
the style of this font size. We've looked at the
first paragraph and change the drop cap
and also any indents. Then we looked at the body
text of the document and looked at the formatting
of the first-line indent. The spacing between
the paragraphs, underlying spacing in the text. If you have made any changes to these
two tests paragraphs, you then have to
apply the same change manually to every single
paragraph of your document. It does not do it automatically. That's why it's important to
format the original document for the style you want before you load it onto Kindle create. But this option gives
you some flexibility to make the final
changes if you wish to.
11. Lecture 10. Formatting the Back Matter of your book.: The back matter of your novel. As you know from
previous presentations, there are three parts
to every novel. The front matter pages, which has everything before the text of your novel
actually starts. The body of your
novel where you have your chapters and the
content of your novel. And then the back matter pages, which is everything that follows the end
page of your novel. Many authors overlook
the importance of the back matter when it comes to building a successful email list and supplying funds
of your work with contact details and
information where they can know more
about your books, existing bucket lists, and
preorder your new copies. The back matter. Should e-books typically includes the
following sequence. This is entirely
optional and depends on your individual niche
and what your goals are. As a writer. The
acknowledgements, some people like to have the acknowledgments in
the front of the book, in the front matter, I
loved ones leave them here. The reason for this
is very simple. If you use the look
inside feature on Amazon to test that when
you select books to read, you want to get the content of your novel as soon as possible. That's why the
copyright page and the acknowledgment page are
often moved to the back of the book so that
the reader looks inside on the sample pages on the Amazon book
description for your book. And they can see what
the first page of your novel alike and read
the opening chapter. You can also includes a list of other books that
you've already written or links to
pre-order pages. If, for example you have
a series of books out, this may be the first
book in the series, but other books and issues
have been pre-written, are available for pre-order on Amazon or other bookstores. This is very important
for a series. We just like to know
that other books of the series have been
written and they're not investing a lot of time
and then having to wait months and months
for the next book in the series to appear. Note from the author. You can use this to thank
the reader for buying the book and asking
them to leave a review. Book reviews on online
stores are crucial to attract and convince browsers
on the online store, but your book is worth investing
their time and money in. They act as social proof
that your book has the content to satisfy what
they need in their niche. The next opportunity is to
offer your reader something which they would love to receive when they subscribe
to your mailing list. An active and engaged mailing
list of targeted readers is essential if you want to build accessible in
the author business, this is a great opportunity to attract readers to
your mailing list. They've just read your novel. They are loved
what they've read, and they want to read more. Give them the opportunity to
stay in contact with you. It also takes the reader
from the Amazon page over to your website and
your mailing list where you are in
contact them in detail. Amazon does not give you the email address of
readers of your books. This way you can capture that email address and be in
contact with your readers. Finally, including
About the Author page. This is the professional
side of your book, where you links to your website and social media profiles. You can add an author page
at any point in your book, but mostly the back in
the back of your book. You could also include
an author photo. How to format the buck
motor using Kindle create. Just as the front matter was called the bookstore elements. The back matter is called
the book end elements. If you click on elements in the main menu, your text menu, you will see the element range for bookstores and N pages
is exactly the same. You have a page title, first paragraph, quotes,
copyright text, etc. If you want the title
of each page in the back matter is heading
one in your manuscript. Then this formatting will carry
across as the page title. Just W4. If you want to change the font of that page
title for that theme, you can click on the
formatting option and alter the font
and the font size. This example of a
thank you page. I use a page title template
from the bookend pages, which has a sans serif font and Amazon MBA to make
the headings stand out. You will also note that I did not use paragraph indentation. This isn't body texts. I did whoever at a small space between the paragraphs
and break up the text. You'll recall we did that
using the formatting. Then the spacing options supply cosine custom
formats to any of your bank might have pages
such as about the author, the copyright page if you moved it here from
the front matter. And more books by the author or other books in the series. Don't forget to invite
readers to join your mailing list. Don't be shy. People love your work. They want to share your work with people who would enjoy it. They also would love to keep in contact with you and receive free copies of future
books and giveaways. This is the ideal place to invite readers to join
your mailing list. They've enjoyed your book. They want to find out more.
12. Lecture 11. The Kindle Previewer Tool: Using the Kindle preview, a tool inside Kindle create. When you finish
formatting the novel, you're ready to see how it looks inside the Kindle preview. Normally you'd have to download a separate Kindle
preview, a tool. But in Kindle create it
is built into the system. All we have to do is click in the top right corner of your screen and you'll
see the preview button. You'll be taken to
the Kindle preview or inspector screen, where there's a wide range of preview options to select from. By the way, you can use the previous green at anytime during the formatting
process to check that your document looks exactly
the way you wanted to. Click on the preview screen. The file will open up inside
the live kindled reviewer. There's a wide range of
tools you can look at. For example, start from the top. You can select which
device to look at, such as tablet or phone
or Kindle reader, and which font I
tend to use booklet, which is a serif font. You can also navigate by page
and by Table of Contents. I usually check the preview
for the opening pages, not the first chapter looks
exactly as I wanted to do. Remember that you wanted to have the focus on the chapter
headings and the body text. I always check that
the table and phone preview the opening pages in the first chapter look
absolutely fine in Berkeley font size
three in portrait mode. This is a type of
device settings which are most
common with readers. If it's easier for you to read, you can increase
the font size by clicking on the arrow
next to the size button. This is navigating by
page where you can go through every single
page of your novel, page by page to check a look exactly as you wanted
to and that you have remember to change the formatting
per chapter headings in texts to create a very
consistent reading style. You can also navigate
by Table of Contents, and this is very important. Kindle create would
automatically generate an electronic clickable
table of contents for your novel based on the heading one stars you
selected in your manuscript. And when you uploaded your file, go to the navigate by
Option and then click the Chevron and then
table of contents. This is how your reader
will go through your novel. The dog get lost. If needed to add more headings or change them or delete them. Now's the time to go back
to your document and make that change
inside Kindle create. You can click on any of
these chapter headings, make sure they're okay. But also under Kindle creates
green, you're live screen. You'll see the
chapter headings on the left-hand side of the
page as your navigation tool. Once you are happy that every page of your book look
exactly as you want it. You can move on to
the final step. Click on the Publish button
on the very top right. The header bar of your
Kindle creates green. You're not ready to publish your Kindle create book
as a Kindle e-book. Kindle create will save, save a package of
your document as a KPF file to your desktop. Away, you tell it to
save it to look out for the KPF extension
on your document. This is the fully formatted file which is rater upload **** ADP, to publish your book as an
e-book on the Kindle Store.
13. Lecture 12. Step by step instructions on how to publish on KDP: It's time to publish your
e-book on kVp using Kindle, create, log onto your Amazon kVp a counter published
your kundalini book. You don't have an account, started our homepage and
follow the instructions were taken to a bookshelf where
you can create a new title, and this case, click on Plus
new title, Kindle e-book. We do. So you'll be taken
to the first page, which is the Kindle
e-book details screen. It's your language of your book, the book title and the subtitle. These both must be
on the book cover, the name of the series,
and addition number. If you have more
than one addition, your name as the author and
the contributor's name. The book description
statement claiming that you own the publishing rights,
keywords, and categories. Let's look at a worked example. At anytime you can
go back to ADP and edit any of the details
on the book details page. This is a book details
page for the murder and mozzarella case study book that we're using
in the tutorials, the languages English,
the title murderer mozzarella at the king's
meat cozy mystery. These are both on the
title of the book, on the cover of the book. It's a series kings
me cosine history. This is book one of the series. Edition number is
the first edition. The name of the author. There are no co-authors. Then we get to book description. This is very important. If you attract a reader who's
browsing the Amazon store, who loves your cozy mystery
cover or your book cover? They'll then read the blurb, the book description
which you write and you create and you put on the book description page
on the Amazon store. Think of it as
selling your book. It's a pitch. It's
a selling document. All ways that you can make
your text standout on the in-text on the
book description page on Amazon store
using simple HTML. Don't worry, I've given resource pages for this
where you have links. It can format your description, look description very simply, and copy the code inserted here. If you look at the
one I got here, NH3, just take you through it
because as an example, h3 is heading three. So it's a heading. Strong is bold, text, M is emphasis, plaintext, and then strong Gunther bolt. Nothing too complicated. Keep it short and
sweet and simple. I'm making a
statement that I own the copyright and hold the
necessary publishing rights. Then I'm adding keywords. Keywords are
extremely important. These are the words which readers can type into
the Amazon bookstore, which helped them find
your specific book. You can use up to seven key
words or keyword phrases. Setting up the book. Help set up the best keywords, how to select the best keywords. Think about the search
terms you would use looking for a novel in
the same genre on Amazon. Then select those keywords. I'm thinking about. What I'm looking for is an
element in my book. This is a cozy mystery as a cozy culinary mystery,
which specific niche? Then we come to categories. You allow two categories. This is the UK Amazon store. I should hasten to add
just slightly different. Categories are crucial. I think of categories as the virtual bookshelves
on the Amazon store. Amazon has to know
where to put your book. It doesn't do it automatically. It does look at the
keyword you've given it and the title and other
details of your book. But you can specify
exactly where books go. Browse category is a section of the Amazon site where
users can find your book. Think of it like sections
of a physical bookstore. These are very important. Think about the
niche you are in. To find the best category. Click on categories. You'll notice that as fiction, non-fiction, juvenile fiction, comics, education, and literary, we're talking about
fiction here. If you click on fiction, you'll find a huge risk list of different types of fiction. I would think from Yahweh, like novels and
visionary metaphysical through Romans,
psychological, medical. Magic realism and so on. Contemporary women. There is a huge number. You'll notice some of them
have little plus next to them. This means there are some
categories in that category. For example, I'm
going to look at murder mystery. If I tick on it. But mystery detective is called
in the UK category store, I can see a whole range of
options I have to choose from. One of them is cozy, which suits my work perfectly. Another one, its
original British goods are women sleuths, or international
mystery and crime. There are a wide variety
of options available. Again, with thrillers, the dropped the whole
drop-down list of options. So take your time
and look through the categories which are
perfect fit for your work. The best ways to look
at the categories is to study specific categories. For books of a similar nature to yours on the Amazon store. See which categories amazon
has filed those books under, and then select those
for your book too. It's simple way of confirming that you've
selected the right categories. Animal sources I've
attached to this tutorial. I've also added
additional categories which are specific
to your novel. These are specific to the UK and the Amazon.com US stores. We'd have categories
for specific groups. Be sure to click Save to
establish the categories. Not writing a children's book. I don't want to have a preorder. Then Save and Continue. You're now onto the
Kindle e-book content. You can leap book
details are complete. Now in the Kindle
e-book content. The recommended formats for
your e-book manuscript, doc, HTML, Moby ePub, RTF, plaintext and KPF. Kpf is the file we've
created in Kindle create. Now upload your
e-book manuscript, which is the Kindle
create file that you've created as a KPF file. Allow that to upload fully. Then you recommend a book cover with a great reader experience. You can create a cover using a quick cover creator tool or upload your own
Kindle e-book cover. We're uploading the
cover we already made, which is an a JPEG format. You upload your cover file, which is formatted to
the exact dimensions targeted for Kindle e-book. When your manuscript
has uploaded your code, as uploaded, you click
on Launch pre viewer. This is essential. It takes a few minutes for
the kVp system to convert your file into the
Kindle e-book file and link it to your cover. You must launch the preview. Click on Launch previewed. It takes a few minutes
to work it through. First of all, look at the
heading of the screen. We're looking at the
device on a tablet. You can look at what it
would look like on a phone. Also preview what it
would look like on a Kindle e-book reader,
which is black and white. I'm going to look at a tablet. Let's make that a little larger. Here's the cover of the book. Always, always check
through the pages, every single page of your
book in the preview screen. The fonts are such
a tree as fine. Table of Contents him
at the beginning. And I'm going to use
the arrow to scroll through the table of
contents work chapter there. Let's check one. Chapter 16. Check to see if the formatting
for your heading and your first paragraph is still in place, that'll working well. Scroll through the
pages and make sure you're happy with
how the book looks. If you have any
hyperlinks in the book, especially on the author page, make sure they're working. Images can be problems. I'm always cautious
to make sure that the images I've downloaded
are working correctly. Here's a preview that they
spoke competent at the end. So on, that looks
absolutely fine. Click this heading here to go back to the book deta details. If you're happy with the book, click, Save and Continue. We'll take a few
minutes to save it all. Now we're into the third page of the kVp publishing process is the Kindle e-book
prices in page. You can enroll your kVp
e-book in Kindle select. That means that it has to be exclusive to the Amazon
stool for 90 days. You can't get anywhere
else for 90 days, but you can earn a lot of money. On page reads. For people who enjoy the
subscription service in Amazon. Work with attempt
the territories, the territory's, I would say all in the territory's
worldwide. Maximum opportunity to
share your work online. Then the royalties and pricing. How to choose a price. This can be quite tricky. It's very much a market
driven pricing structure. You have 35 per cent. Your price is $0.99. The $200, we only got
35% royalties or 70%. In the non price is
$2.99 us up to $9.99. This covers most
novels that I would recommend starting
with that price range. It then gives you the same price based on the Amazon.com price and all these
other marketplaces. Yeah, you can check how that price to those 99 translates or
the price you've used selected above the
$3.99 translates into the approach in
your local market and change that price. Example, $2.99 acquitted
227 in the UK, that to be 299 in the UK. That's fine. Then gives you the
cost of delivering. That's actually the
bandwidth cost, the available images
in this book. It's very cheap to deliver. If you had a book with
lots of images of the more expensive
delivered that book, unless the royalty I
would expect per book. You can look down that list. Contact of the 72 hours for your title to be available
for purchase on Amazon. They don't worry too much if you don't see your
books right away. If you're completely happy, You Can Save As Draft. Published your
Kindle e-book now. Congratulations. You're now ready to publish
your first Kindle e-book for this novel on the Amazon Kindle
Direct Publishing store.
NINA HARRINGTON, Bestselling Author, Tutor and Blogger
