Heuristic Processingįor some reason, the image converter for Kindle produces a terribly small, grainy image. You want to be sure to click “Embed All Fonts in Document.” Everything else on this screen can be left as-is. In some of the photos below, I have it set to MOBI, but don’t mind that.

The FIRST THING you need to do is change the output format at the top right to “EPUB”. Once you have your metadata updated, it’s time to get to converting! You can click “Convert Books” at the top while you have your title highlighted, and a dialogue box will open. You can also enter your ISBN here under “IDs” if you have one. Go ahead and change that, and then fill out as many fields as possible. If you used an image for your interior title page, it is probably being recognized here as your cover image. BEFORE you click on “Convert Book,” go ahead and click “Edit Metadata” while your book is selected. Your Metadata is the information about your book, including author, publisher, cover image, etc. Calibre will recognize this, and we can format it after we’ve converted it.

I usually just take a screen clip of my interior title page, then insert it back into the doc. Different fonts and layouts don’t always render properly in KDP, and it’s impossible to control page breaks otherwise. If you have special formatting on your interior title page (as you should), make sure that your title page has been replaced with an image. You can find out how to do that in this post. You’ll want to use proper headings and TOC formatting that is built into MS Word. If you haven’t already, make sure your Word doc is properly formatted to make the conversion as simple as possible. Your’re going to either click “Add Books” up in the top left, or just drag and drop your MS Word file. You’ve downloaded Calibre and you see the interface looks like this (except yours won’t have any books yet): If you’re uploading to other sites like Google Play Books, iTunes Producer, Nook, or Barnes & Noble. epub to the KDP backend and keep all your wonderful fonts and formatting for your readers to download on their devices. mobi to be directly added to their Kindles.Īs a publisher, however, you can upload an. But Amazon likes to be tricky, and only allows. epub will work on any computer, phone, or non-Kindle tablet. mobi as these are the most common file types for e-readers.Īn. Now are you going to use all of those formats? Probably not.

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