Okay, finally I figured it out. I didn't have to use Mobipocket Creator to do it either. I pasted my short story collection into a brand new Microsoft Word document. I made sure the font was 12 Times & Romans, and I placed page breaks after each section that I wanted separated. If you're doing this for a novel, you would Insert Page Break after each chapter of your book. That wasy it makes it easy for readers to differentiate between chapters as they read your novel on Kindle.
If you have any questions, go ahead and send it to me in the comments section.
I might try Mobipocket Creator anyway just to see if it works better.
Remember when you upload your Microsoft Word document to Kindle Direct Publishing, make sure you do NOT save it as .DOCX. Use .DOC instead. The .DOC is for Word 97 and .DOCX is Word 2007.
Remember .DOCX and .PDF files do not transfer well to Kindle at all. I've already tried both.
Right now, .DOC is best.
Showing posts with label Kindle Director Publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle Director Publishing. Show all posts
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Kindle formats--Use Microsoft Word; not .PDF
Okay, I made the mistake of converting a .PDF draft of Death By Clogging to Amazon's Kindle. The result is still readable, but not the way I'd like it to be. I'm going to try what everyone on the forums suggests--convert from MS Word to Mobipocket Creator and then to Kindle. This week I'm hoping to also learn how to create a usable table of contents (TOC) and activate the "Go to" guides within the document.
I'll let you know what I learn.
I'll let you know what I learn.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Format problems when converting novel to Kindle ebook
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) allows for various formatted documents; however, some formats convert better than others. According to KDP's page on Amazon, the best formats to use are DOC (.doc) and PRC (.prc).
MOBI or PRC is created using the free Mobipocket Creator. Here's the link to this software:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscreator.asp
I'll give it a try with my short story collectin "Death By Clogging" which I uploaded the other day to Amazon.com. It's actually easy to upload your book to KDP, but the resulting look is what needs tweaking.
I used Portable Document Format (.PDF) and the result was irregular page breaks and inconsistent text flow. Perhaps Mobicreator will resolve this. I'll let you know soon!
-Lisa Logan
MOBI or PRC is created using the free Mobipocket Creator. Here's the link to this software:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscreator.asp
I'll give it a try with my short story collectin "Death By Clogging" which I uploaded the other day to Amazon.com. It's actually easy to upload your book to KDP, but the resulting look is what needs tweaking.
I used Portable Document Format (.PDF) and the result was irregular page breaks and inconsistent text flow. Perhaps Mobicreator will resolve this. I'll let you know soon!
-Lisa Logan
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