When I published my first book Fruits for Life there were issues with a lot of things. With every new thing I learned, I went back and updated the book. But the formatting for Kindle was not an easy topic. Now with the Kindle Create Software, you have Amazon Kindle holding your hands.
How to use Kindle Create
- Just download Kindle create software on the laptop or desktop
- Import the Microsoft Word Version of the book you want to format.
- Choose a theme.
- Choose the Table of content by selecting the chapters.
- Then check the Title, Subtitle, etc
- Font type and size
- Proofread through the book as your format.
- Save the formatted version for uploading as an ebook.
The best part: Using the same software you can format your paperback book too!
The only problem is, KDP does a print on demand from its Amazon.com site, making your Print on demand book expensive.
Kindle Create: All you need to know about it
- Price: Free
- Ease of Use: Very
- Resources needed: Laptop or Desktop, mobile phone not supported.
- Version: Both for Windows and Mac.
- Skills needed: Ability to read instructions
Pros:
- Free
- Easy to use
- Works seamlessly offline.
- No complications
- Saves time formatting, so that you can use the extra time for creating and polishing content.
- You can format fiction or nonfiction, cartoons, kids books, cookbooks or travel books.
- Several themes are available for selection
- Formatting choices are adequate.
- Table of content is easy to make
- For the picture-heavy book, the pdf version will be needed to be imported into Kindle Create.
Cons:
- Once you save it as the Kindle Kpf format you can’t mail it to your Kindle.
- You can’t convert it into a pdf
- You can’t make an epub or mobi copy. Your best bet is to save the Word file with bare bone formatting intact to share as Author Review copy and make Pdfs.
- You cannot add links once you are in the Kindle create software.
- If you find some lack of flow, you can’t add chapters in this software and you have first to go back to the word document->add chapters ->export the new word file to the Kindle Create and start from scratch!
Why do I still recommend Kindle Create?
I used to have nightmares about formatting. It took more time than everything else together and even then it didn’t look as good as I wanted it too. With the Kindle Create, that headache is gone.
It gives you a professional looking ebook, with simple uncluttered, uniform formatting according to your genre, with no pain as Amazon says Beautiful books every time!
Have you published on Amazon? What do you use to format your book?
Let me know in the comments below.
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