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Ebook Publishing and Formatting Guide for Epub and Kindle

This is the modified  guide from our DIY Formatting Kit. It contains all the code you need to make your own formatting template.

If you prefer to receive the Kit: with the pre-made templates, Lifetime Updates and Hands-on email help, please go to FirstStepsPublishing.com-- NOTE: Kit 3.0 launching January 30.

As an author you don't have time to read through long manuals on the intricacies of HTML and CSS style sheets. In fact, you just want a method you can "plug and go", right?

Unfortunately, e-publishing is not...repeat...NOT a one-click process (yet). Not if you want your file to look its best.

This guide offers just one way to e-plublish your book, though it is one of the most effective as it formats for Kindle, Barnes & Noble AND iBookstore. It is the easiest process I have found (so far) for authors to accurately format an  e-book file that validates using epubcheck standards without having to become an HTML expert.

: : What this book IS: a Step-by-step process to take you from MS to Epub AND Mobi

: : What this book is NOT: A one-click solution. Epub and Mobi files use HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and require a slight learning curve.


Tools Needed

• Open Source (free) SIGIL
• Online Word to HTML conversion tool (free, but donations accepted)
• A word processing program

Includes

• Links to 10 online step-by-step videos
• Code for Creating Master eBook templates
• Troubleshooting and Tips Section

: : Contents at a Glance

Learning the Basics

• HTML and E-books
• Epub vs. Mobi vs PDF

Part 1 - Styles and Formatting

• Formatting your Manuscript
• Lesson 1: Styles
• Lesson 2: Formatting

Part 2 - Creating Templates

• The XHTML Template
• Inserting Images
• Adding the Table of Contents
• The Content Style Sheet Template

Part 3 - Step-by-Step Tutorial

• The Set Up
• Convert to HTML
• Using the Templates
• Splitting the pages
• Setting the Meta and TOC Editor
• Validating the Epub file
• Convert Epub to Kindle in One Step
• Proofing
• How to Upload to Kindle and Barnes & Noble

Troubleshooting & Tips
HTML and CSS Basics
Resources

: : Testimonials
Read more at: firststepspublishing.com/testimonials.php
----------------------------------------------------

"I've written and published a number of paperback books over the years.
I wanted to convert them to digital format. But wherever I looked on the web,
I found confusing and often contradictory guides on how to make the conversion.

I'm a Mac user, and when I did find something that made halfway sense,
the information was aimed at Microsoft Windows users with too much geek in it for
me to follow. After a week, I was ready to give up. Then I stumbled across
the DIY Formatting Kit.

The first day after purchasing DIY, I successfully published one book on
Amazon's Kindle site. The next 2 days, 2 books each. I've just started and have
lots more to publish thanks to DIY."

John Boeschen, Author
thurseve.com
----------------------------------------------------

"Thoroughly impressed with Suzanne, her comments, her questions,
her websites. Suzanne was well prepared and a joy to work with on her
podcasts and written interviews."

Kathy Kinney: Author, Actress
(aka Mrs. P of MrsP.com)
----------------------------------------------------

Kurzbeschreibung

Ebook Publishing and Formatting Guide for Epub and Kindle

This is the modified  guide from our DIY Formatting Kit. It contains all the code you need to make your own formatting template.

If you prefer to receive the Kit: with the pre-made templates, Lifetime Updates and Hands-on email help, please go to FirstStepsPublishing.com-- NOTE: Kit 3.0 launching January 30.

As an author you don't have time to read through long manuals on the intricacies of HTML and CSS style sheets. In fact, you just want a method you can "plug and go", right?

Unfortunately, e-publishing is not...repeat...NOT a one-click process (yet). Not if you want your file to look its best.

This guide offers just one way to e-plublish your book, though it is one of the most effective as it formats for Kindle, Barnes & Noble AND iBookstore. It is the easiest process I have found (so far) for authors to accurately format an  e-book file that validates using epubcheck standards without having to become an HTML expert.

: : What this book IS: a Step-by-step process to take you from MS to Epub AND Mobi

: : What this book is NOT: A one-click solution. Epub and Mobi files use HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and require a slight learning curve.


Tools Needed

• Open Source (free) SIGIL
• Online Word to HTML conversion tool (free, but donations accepted)
• A word processing program

Includes

• Links to 10 online step-by-step videos
• Code for Creating Master eBook templates
• Troubleshooting and Tips Section

: : Contents at a Glance

Learning the Basics

• HTML and E-books
• Epub vs. Mobi vs PDF

Part 1 - Styles and Formatting

• Formatting your Manuscript
• Lesson 1: Styles
• Lesson 2: Formatting

Part 2 - Creating Templates

• The XHTML Template
• Inserting Images
• Adding the Table of Contents
• The Content Style Sheet Template

Part 3 - Step-by-Step Tutorial

• The Set Up
• Convert to HTML
• Using the Templates
• Splitting the pages
• Setting the Meta and TOC Editor
• Validating the Epub file
• Convert Epub to Kindle in One Step
• Proofing
• How to Upload to Kindle and Barnes & Noble

Troubleshooting & Tips
HTML and CSS Basics
Resources

: : Testimonials
Read more at: firststepspublishing.com/testimonials.php
----------------------------------------------------

"I've written and published a number of paperback books over the years.
I wanted to convert them to digital format. But wherever I looked on the web,
I found confusing and often contradictory guides on how to make the conversion.

I'm a Mac user, and when I did find something that made halfway sense,
the information was aimed at Microsoft Windows users with too much geek in it for
me to follow. After a week, I was ready to give up. Then I stumbled across
the DIY Formatting Kit.

The first day after purchasing DIY, I successfully published one book on
Amazon's Kindle site. The next 2 days, 2 books each. I've just started and have
lots more to publish thanks to DIY."

John Boeschen, Author
thurseve.com
----------------------------------------------------

"Thoroughly impressed with Suzanne, her comments, her questions,
her websites. Suzanne was well prepared and a joy to work with on her
podcasts and written interviews."

Kathy Kinney: Author, Actress
(aka Mrs. P of MrsP.com)
----------------------------------------------------

Kurzbeschreibung

"I'm a prisoner here and they've stolen my body."

That's the first line in The Change, the published version of a journal found in 2010 at the back of a shallow cave in the red rock desert of southern Utah. It chronicles the experience of David Crosley, a young musician who discovers himself alone in the desert in a woman's body, or was he always a woman now deluded in believing she had ever been a man? He/she uses the journal to retrace the past in an effort to regain true identity, and in the process remembers encountering a group of highly sexual female shamans on a quest to change the world, metaphysical magic, a free energy machine, political intrigue and gender bending sexual fantasy. The result is a self indulgent page turner which analyzes gender identity and the metaphysical nature of the universe we live in.

Kurzbeschreibung

"I'm a prisoner here and they've stolen my body."

That's the first line in The Change, the published version of a journal found in 2010 at the back of a shallow cave in the red rock desert of southern Utah. It chronicles the experience of David Crosley, a young musician who discovers himself alone in the desert in a woman's body, or was he always a woman now deluded in believing she had ever been a man? He/she uses the journal to retrace the past in an effort to regain true identity, and in the process remembers encountering a group of highly sexual female shamans on a quest to change the world, metaphysical magic, a free energy machine, political intrigue and gender bending sexual fantasy. The result is a self indulgent page turner which analyzes gender identity and the metaphysical nature of the universe we live in.