So, for now, that is our solution.īut there is a problem with Apple’s Pages when exporting to an ePub. Pages now lets you import Word documents, create a table of contents, make modifications, and export an eBook ready for publishing to iTunes Connect or anywhere else. You want each chapter in its own XHTML file.Įnter the new Pages App. If you import into an ePub template, your chapters get clumped together. But an imported Word doc directly into IBooks Author is - well weird.
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This free App can import Word Docs and prepare for publishing to iTunes. They are part of Apple’s big marketplace, so you want to be there.Īs I mentioned, Apple has a product that is similar to Kindle Create called iBooks Author. These eBooks are readable on all your Apple devices and computers. Later I tell you about the universal ePub format that is used almost everywhere, so don’t get too attached to Kindle Create. Both kinds of books have the three step tabs as shown above. KDP lets you publish both a Kindle version and a paperback version. See the second Tab-the content Tab online. There is even a preview to help you see what the book looks like on a mobile device.įinally when you publish, Create produces a. The Create App is kind of fun to work with and make adjustments to your Kindle book. You may want to hire a designer for the cover, but the combined free result so far for me was this:Īfter conversion, you have a chance to customize your Table of Contents.
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Next, download your Canva cover as a PDF and use Photoshop to convert it to a JPG for uploading to the KDP cover maker. I grabbed a free cover photo image from Pexels and used it with Canva. An excellent place to design a front cover is on Canva. But there is a KDP cover template that accepts your own imported front cover page. I discovered these templates after torturing myself with all the required specifications that are acceptable to Amazon.įOUR - You will need a cover. Find a Word template on Amazon KDP after reviewing the docs here.
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I’ll show you how to generate your Kindle and eBooks from this original manuscript later on. THREE - Build your Amazon Paperback first. Kindle is the best place to start because they have 80% of the self-publishing market. TWO - Signup for an account on KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing).
Anyway, on the Mac, for now, you will have to copy from Word into the Grammarly’s App and then back again. The odd thing is that Apple did not write Word.
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The people at Grammarly blame Steve Jobs for making grammar checking on the Mac Word impossible. On Word for Windows, Grammarly plugs right in. Grammarly is the best grammar checker I’ve found.
Unless you are a descendant of Virginia Woolf, you should let your computer help. I used the Word grammar checker but found it entirely lacking, so I grabbed a copy of Grammarly. ONE - I wrote the initial manuscript in MS Word. Then I will follow up with some cool tips. But here are some solutions and ideas (1–10) that I found while publishing my first book. The many publishing tools and strategies are confusing. This tool lets you get to the internals of an ePub. One more tool you will want to know about is Sigil. They do have some nice typsetting designs to chose from though. Two you will want to look at are Draft2Digital and SmashWords.īut again, the problem is that the final eBooks they produce from your manuscript are nice but limited. They will also publish to multiple distributors for you. Some websites will take your Word manuscript and generate eBooks online. So stick with the new Pages for converting Doc files to ePub. iBooks Author produces ePub3 files is probably being sunset and the ePub it produces has the chapters from Word all lumped to gether. The online publishing is a good place to start with your paperback book.Īpple has three of tools for making ePub files: Pages and iBooks Author for editing and iTunes Producer for publishing your document. You also have the option to publish on KDP right on their website. It creates a KPF file for publishing to Amazon Kindle Direct. The problem with Kindle Create is that the output is proprietary. But there are two versions right now: ePub2 and ePub3.Īmazon has a product called Kindle Create that supports importing Word documents. Then you want to create an eBook ready document. The bad news is that the solutions are all over the board. The good news is that Self-publishing is free for both paper and ebooks.
You will want to create a manuscript that is well formatted and ready for publishing on Amazon Kindle, Amazon Paperback, Apple Books, Google Play, and many others. Still, Mark refused to accept rejection.įortunately, today, you have Self-Publish. Mark Victor Hansen wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul - a book that made him millions of dollars and spawned countless spin-offs.
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