Video: How to format a book for Kindle Direct Publishing?

To prepare your book for Kindle DP you can build it in Word for ease of formatting. You can write your book in Word or convert an existing source file to Word format (DOC / DOCX).

Front matter should include the beginning pages of a book, such as Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication, Preface, and Prologue. For a stylish and professional presentation, add a Title Page at minimum.

Once you've created your front matter, you're ready to format the rest of your text. The indentations, text spacing, and separate paragraphs should have been included when you built your book in Word. The remaining step is to insert a page break after the last sentence of each book chapter to keep them from running together. Depending on the number of chapters you have, this may be a time-consuming process but the effort is worth the improved reading experience.

Then use Word's built-in Table of Contents tool to create active Table of Contents.

Once you're confident with the layout of your book, save your Word file to your Documents folder or Desktop in Web Page, Filtered (*HTM & *HTML) (for PC) or Web Page (.htm) (for Mac) format. This format is required to build a successful eBook.

Once you're satisfied with the quality and presentation of your book, upload your file to your KDP Bookshelf and complete the publication process.

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