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Kindle Direct Publishing - Building Your Book for Kindle - 29 Highlight(s)

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Building Your Book for Kindle

Kindle Direct Publishing

Last accessed on Tuesday March 1, 2016

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line" indents (for paragraphs) in Word: o  Click on the "Page Layout" tab at the top of the screen

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set your paragraph spacing in Word as follows: o  With your Word document open, click on the "Page Layout" tab at the top of the screen o  In the "Paragraph" section of this tab, locate the section entitled "Indent" o  Next to the word "After", you can enter a value for your preferred space after a paragraph (in the example below, Word will allow a 10 point space after a paragraph, before the next paragraph).

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Insert page breaks between chapters: Enter a page break at the end of every chapter to prevent the text from running together on Kindle. To insert a page break in Word: o  Click "Insert" at the top of the screen in Word o  Click "Page Break

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Images should be inserted in JPEG (or .jpg) format with center alignment (don't copy and

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paste from another source).

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Headers, such as title and chapter, and footers, such as page number, will not display on Kindle as intended; avoid using them.

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avoid utilizing font size to add emphasis.

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"References" tab at the top and find "Table of Contents

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uncheck the box that says "Show Page Numbers" (since this is an e-book and page numbers don't apply)

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o  Set the "Show levels" box to 1

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3.  Set a bookmark so Kindle can find your Table of Contents

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"Guide Items.

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o  Highlight the words "Table of Contents" in your document

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o  Click on the "Insert" tab

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o  Select "Bookmark"

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"Bookmark name

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o  Click "

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make sure your table of contents updates, click anywhere in your table of contents and hit the F9 key; this will add any new chapter headings and delete any removed ones.

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When you upload your book, you will be asked to upload an image for your book cover.

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•  a .jpg or .tif(f) file

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•  at least 1000 pixels on the longest side

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•  ideal image height/width ratio is 1.6 (example: 1000 x 1600)

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Microsoft Paint,

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artwork that you own or public domain artwork]

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fonts [you can use public domain or purchased fonts]

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•  Save your manuscript as a "Filtered HTML document" on your computer at a location you can easily find (such as your desktop).

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"Save as type:" select "Web Page, Filtered.

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"removing office tags," click "

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