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“Chapter name” should be what you use for all chapter names and only chapter names. You need to use separate styles for distinct pieces. This won’t work if you format each chapter title by hand, changing font, size, spacing, etc. The secret here is to uses the “styles drawer” to format your whole document. I shifted the content to Pages for formatting. Right now, I’m partial to blogging it, but I could also write it in Word, Writeroom, TextEdit, Pages, or any number of text editors or word processors. That fell through, but left me with a process that starts with Pages and ends with a free piece of software called Calibre. At the time, he was working with someone who wanted to be able to offer the service professionally as part of a larger business. Last summer, a friend approached me to figure out how to do it reliably. I’d hate to depend on someone’s system only to have it go away. The problem is that the software isn’t open source so it could go away at any time. They’ve clearly done some work in the background to turn WordPress into a very capable ebook creation tool. It outputs an ePub file that worked really well with Amazon’s system.

Form My Second Bookįor my second book, I used. Unfortunately, it’s not as straight forward as a website is, so while I’m glad I did it once, I was excited to find another way. If you take an ePub and change the extension to “.zip,” you can unzip it and look at the contents. As it turns out, the ePub format is just a varient of HTML, so what I know about web design translated fairly easily. I spent a couple of months trying to figure out the best and most reliable way to do this on my Mac without buying software I didn’t already have.įor my first book, I did it all in HTML. Without some major work, it’s going to be problematic because Kindle owners can tweak settings like font size and margin, throwing your design into chaos.

Don’t try to create a beautiful print book … for Kindle. Sometimes the failures were catastrophic like JK Rowling’s most recent book. Almost universally, these attempts were met with failure. I’ve seen examples where people tried to create a perfect representation of a paper book for Kindle. So that begs the questions, “How do you get your draft into a mobi file?” There’s no “save for Kindle” option in either Word or Pages.įirst, consider the medium. I’ve personally used html, mobi, and ePub and have had the best results with mobi.

You can upload a Word file, but you’d probably regret it.Īmazon supposedly takes “Word (DOC or DOCX), HTML (ZIP, HTM, or HTML), Mobipocket (MOBI), ePub (EPUB), Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF), Adobe PDF (PDF)” files, but most of these will either have formatting problems or won’t take advantage of Kindle’s ability to change font size. You might think that publishing a book on Kindle is just as easy as taking a MS Word file and uploading it.