![]() Sigil (free) or DreamWeaver (expensive, no longer supported), for final format editing.Calibre (free), for quick conversions to and from ePub and Kindle mobi format.I need it, which explains the time I’ve been spending on this topic! Basic Publishing Tools: It is the functionality that is important to me. The two options serve the same function - provide secondary material where it’s convenient to see, in a way that at the same time is easy to skip over.Ī true sidebar is, of course, displayed in a much sexier way, with text flowing around it. The only other label I’ve seen used is “block of text”, so I’ve opted for the shorter term.) There is something else that does seem to work, however: A wide block of text, with a border around it. But after they did it once, they swore, “Never again!”) (One of the participants in the KDP community discussion on the topic actually managed to get them working - once. I’ve also learned that a) Amazon KDP no longer lets you upload the Kindle mobi format directly, and b) Sigil now has a Page Editor! (More below) About “Sidebars”Ī true sidebar - where the main body of content flows around a separated block of text, so the two are adjacent- is inordinately difficult to create, and impossible to read on smaller devices. I happen to have one of the apps he recommends, so that may be a better way to go, for me.) (Thompson’s process is simpler, but it requires paid software. The notes below cover both options, to the degree I’ve investigated them. So far, Kindle mobi formats produced by Calibre have generally been more readable than the ePub formats - with the notable exception of sidebars!) But an even quicker process may be the one recommended by William Thompson, in How to Publish with Kindle Create. (I’ve yet to find out whether I like that format, though. His process may not be quite as quick as the one I’ve been using, but it may not take that much longer, either - and it will produce a good-quality eBook that is ready to publish anywhere. (In the three years since I published my last book, it turns out that you can no longer upload a mobi file! So laboring over the Kindle format doesn’t make much sense. In particular, Notjohn’s Guide to eBook Formatting has a good process for generating eBooks that can be uploaded to KDP - or anywhere else - so what you get at the end is what you see when you upload. As I modify my process, I’m adding notes here. But there is a good discussion going on in the KDP community, and I’m learning a lot. It got readable copy out there, reasonably quickly, in PDF, ePub, and mobi (Kindle) formats. I keep meaning to publish ePubs, as well, but removing all of my Amazon links is a pain - and other distributors (understandably) don’t like them.ĮDITS IN PROGRESS The process I originally described in this article worked reasonably for creating “ beta reader ” versions of my upcoming book (preliminary versions for early readers). Like many an author these days, I use MS Word to create manuscripts, and publish on Amazon. Mostly-full-width “sidebar” in Word, from my upcoming book on Weight Loss ![]()
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