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1. #KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT HOW TO#
2. #KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT SOFTWARE#
3. #KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT CODE#

They get messed up, jumbled, and split on to different pages… especially on mobiles. 2) Don’t use tables in the book if possible. Grab it from the Literature and Latte site (I don’t make any money off this link, I just think it’s an awesome program). Scrivener costs about $50 or less, but for the time it saves in formatting, outsourcing, and hair pulling… it’s worth it.

#KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT CODE#

I don’t think I even have to go into why formatting a 100-150 page book with code to get everything to look right can just downright suck.ĪCTION STEP: Buy a license for Scrivener and download it now.

Scrivener can even automatically export a very nicely formatted version off for direct Kindle publishing (MOBI file), whereas in Word I believe you must use code to do so. Scrivener also immensely helped when formatting the book for submission to Amazon’s Createspace program, which helps you turn your e-books into paperbacks with a few clicks. Going back, I would have kept everything localized in Scrivener and saved myself hours of annoyance and stress.

#KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT SOFTWARE#

So not only did I waste time on formatting which the software can do automatically… But I exported a Word version to my editor, who made comments/changes to it, which I then had to transcribe BACK into Scrivener, where I had to manually enter in carriage returns and everything. You can automatically add in with a few keystrokes: Sure, making chapters and sections is great, but it’s actually much more powerful.

#KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR FORMAT HOW TO#

I simply started writing with it but didn’t really know how to use the program.

Scrivener is made for screenplays and large amounts of text. I know Sean had this happen to his website, but it can happen for books too! Also, your book file can become corrupt – Say goodbye to all your hard work if you don’t have a back up! I’m not kidding. Why? Word for large documents is slow, unruly, and can crash. It’s an alternative you should use compared to Word. My friend had told me about Scrivener and I think he first heard about it from Tim Ferriss. So here they are: 1) My Biggest Kindle Mistake: Not Writing My Book in Scrivener from the Start My hope that if you choose to write a book and/or publish it with Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing, you will be saved hours of stress and tears from my mistakes and I give you action steps to address each mistake so you can tackle them as you write. These are things I will improve on for my next book. I’ll also share some more resources at the end of the article.īut what I wanted to detail here in this article are the things I didn’t do so well. Some great posts sit here at Location Rebel by Dave and Tristan King. They cover topics like keyword research, category selection and so on. There are great guides around that go into the mechanics of writing a book for Amazon and the Kindle Store. Dual #1 bestseller in US during first monthīut after taking months to write the book and delaying my publishing for so long (ah the fears of the entrepreneur!), when I look back I realize I made A LOT of mistakes.Triple #1 bestseller in Canada during first month.During first week: Broke top 100 in Canada, top 1000 in US (of all books in Kindle store).First month copies sold: Nearly 2000 (1812).The results were FAR beyond my expectations:īreaching top 1000 of ALL books in Kindle store, dual #1 bestseller status in two categories, and also breaching top 20 books in Self-Help.īeing #10 in Self-Help category – beating out heavy weights Stephen Covey, Eckart Tolle, and Dale Carnegie. My hope was that I’d sell only one copy and eventually, make $100 a month. So I decided to write my first book, Mastery Of The Mind, back in September for my blog, Light Way Of Thinking. Well, OK it also drove me a bit crazy but you can’t have the good without the bad… And even in school, the formatting, teasing out, and creation of a 400 page thesis got me going. I have always been a writer, ever since I was a kid. If you’re thinking of writing a book for Kindle, or even if you already have, take some time and read through this to ensure you set yourself up for the best chance of success! There’s a good chance you’ve been interested in writing a book of your own, so I enlisted Noam Lightstone to share with you his experience, and in particular share his 10 biggest Kindle mistakes that he made when publishing his first book. I have friends that are making 5 figures monthly, by building their small publishing empire. Over the last two years one of the biggest trends I’ve seen, is people having success self-publishing books on Kindle.

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