Oh, and it helps if you know a little HTML, too.

If you google, 'How to convert your manuscript to a Kindle ebook,' you'll get an 80 step process of how you need to set-up a Kindle email account within your Amazon account, and send yourself the file as an attachment, which will automatically convert the file into a Kindle formated file. where does that leave you? Plan B, right? Google it. docx manuscripts, we have heard horror stories about authors attempting to upload PDFs. And while we've had perfectly decent results with uploading basic, text-only MS Word. So you never know how a chapter break or even a little ol' paragraph indent in a MS Word or PDF file will look on the final Kindle file until you test it. What they don't tell you is that these formats are inconsistently transferred into the Kindle File format. docx will allow you to embed into it without the final result going all crazy-town on you when Amazon crunchs it up and spits the file back out.Īccording to Amazon's Kindle Publishing Guide, MSWord, ePUB, PDF file formats are all acceptable document formats for uploading your ebook content. Amazon allows you to also review the final result through their online book previewer before hitting 'PUBLISH' and calling it a success.īut as you get deeper and deeper into world of self-publishing, you're going to find that you may want to add more to your Kindle ebook than a simple MS Word.

docx into our KDP Dashboard, and allowed Amazon's conversion tool to crunch it into the proper Kindle format. Just like you, we have simply uploaded our MS Word. docx to your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing account and call it a day.īut unfortunately, you won't be able to insert anything fancy - no photos, no table of contents with active links to each chapter, no artwork, no nothin'.įor most of you, that will be completely acceptable. If you've reached this step, you must be a seriously motivated writer, or a Friday-nights-are-for-jailbreaking-my-iphone computer geek because the truth is that you can certainly upload your MS Word. NOTE FOR MAC USERS: Go directly to our How to Create an EPUB file page and follow our intructions for downloading and using Calibre to convert your book into both ePUB and Kindle (MOBI) file formats. How to Convert Your Manuscript to a Kindle eBook (for PC Users)

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