I contort the pages
Force them into a new shape and form
They adjust uncomfortably
Electronic words are not the norm
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I have been going round and round with my Microsoft Word files the past few days. I’ve now discovered a new way to make my EBooks look great in the Kindle and other EReaders – I think. It seems to be working so far, but it involves a lot of trial and error.
The problem I am having is that when I wrote most of my stuff it was meant for print. I just popped open a Word file and started banging away on the keys. With EBooks though you got to nurse it, massage it, take it out to dinner a couple of times before it gives up the goods. You have to go in and manually set a lot of the margins, tabs, and so forth. It is a nightmare on an OCD guy like me. At what point do you just let it go? I could tweak on these things forever. And on top of all that I keep hearing how Word is the devil when it comes to making EBooks. Again, it’s all I have ever used, so my stuff is frozen in Word. Guess I got to just work with what I got.
Your thoughts. Do you hire people to do make your EBooks or are you one of those who go in like I do and try to do it themselves?
If you have an EBook you might want to look into these two sites. Both helped me along the way, and are helping me still.
http://chrismcmullen.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/styles-the-secret-for-word-to-kindle/
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That’s the way it feels when we first go through it. (Thank you for the mention.) 🙂
Thanks. You were a big help. I used your advice on Word to get my books almost right – I’ll take that though. A lot better than they were before, so that is great by me. Now, is there a magic button to make sales increase?
I’m glad it was helpful. There is a magic button that will increase sales. But the trick is getting people to press that button. 🙂