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Comment on E-Book Self Publishing: Part 1 by J. Dane Tyler by » Self Publishing an eBook Story Hack

» Self Publishing an eBook Story Hack — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:32:06 +0000

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Comment on 1. Overview by overcome panic attacks

overcome panic attacks — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:42:29 +0000

Great stuff! I am on a mission to publish my first book with Createspace.

Thanks for your help.

Danny

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Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:41:07 +0000

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Comment on eBook Preparation for Kindle Store by Bryce Beattie

Bryce Beattie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:35:45 +0000

About the page breaks. If you want to force the page breaks in each chapter, you can leave in one of the “extra formatting crap” things that I took out. You can change the

(or whichever) tags to say

or you can add in a special tag where you want the page break to occur. I’ll edit the tutorial to include page breaks.

I like the simplicity of an unordered list best, and I’ve been afraid to see how a translated/exported table of contents ends up.

Not sure on the covers. I know there’s a way. I’ll check it out and get back to you. Thanks for the questions/ideas.

edit: I figured out covers, too

Comment on eBook Preparation for Kindle Store by DarcKnyt

DarcKnyt — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:12:40 +0000

I love this process, Bryce. My only question is how you make the HTML recognize a page break between chapters for the Kindle. I can leave the breaks in from my Word HTML file and when the .prc file is created, it (meaning the Kindle Previewer software I use, which is SUPPOSEDLY pretty doggone close to a real Kindle for format/appearance) recognizes the page breaks and moves the next chapter/story to the proper place.

Is this not necessary in HTML when Amazon’s DTP does the conversion from HTML? Do they know to do this automagically?

And I also read on the DTP support forums (which, remember, is only a bunch of users) that the ToC can be created in Word/OO.org and converted over to HTML just like the rest of the document, FYI.

I also believe inclusion of a cover image might be helpful; do you have information on that?

This is a well-written, clear and concise explanation of what goes into prepping a Kindle e-book. Nice work, bud!

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Comment on Creating a Cover for your CreateSpace book by Popart » Blog Archive » Gimp Tutorial: Che Yourself (Pop art spin off)

Popart » Blog Archive » Gimp Tutorial: Che Yourself (Pop art spin off) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:07:23 +0000

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Comment on 3. Cover Design by jess

jess — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:05:30 +0000

Really interested in what you have to say here. I’m in the process of trying to get the rights back on my one published novel–a category romance. As you know, that won’t include the cover so I’m hoping to create a new cover and possibly a new title, and then make the book available on Kindle, etc. Have no idea how to do any of this … . We’ll see.