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You can embed most html code into an ebook. With the back matter, you want to link to your other books, your website, offer a call to action or a bonus to get them to sign up for your list. I use that space to ask pre-emptively for a review, or offering something special, or introducing myself quickly. Personally, I could care less if readers read my copyright notice.

You don’t need to have all the front and back matter that you’d have in a normal print book – decide what’s most important to you.

You may need to look at the code to find the style class, then go to the css to edit it by adding spacing. css file, which controls the styles, and look for the tags that match the headers (maybe something like ‘subtitle one, header, etc’. You can’t really do this with a hard return you need to use styles. Make sure there are even spaces under each section break, and a little space under the headers. The amount of indentation will change based on the reader – so use Kindle previewer to check that there’s a noticeable indentation on various devices (on some Kindles, the indentation is barely there, so you may need to over-emphasize… usually about 25px indentation works).īut most ebooks will have a different style for the first paragraph of every section or chapter, which is non-indented. If you set up your paragraph styles in Word, these styles should make it through to your ebook (maybe not if you use Calibre, but they work if you use my free ebook conversion tool). You can just make all the paragraphs the same if so, they will be indented with no spaces between paragraphs. Talking about ebook formatting will probably sound Greek to you, and it’s a really bad way to learn I’m going to make a series of formatting videos soon that will be much easier to understand and learn from. So I thought I’d put up this post – these are the things I’m noticing with my own ebook, that I’m going through and fixing now. I had paid a professional to do it and just trusted that everything was good to go. If you’re self-publishing and hiring someone else to make ebooks for you, it’s safe to assume they are going to make these mistakes and you probably won’t know any better. I don’t know how so much could have gotten past me (actually I probably didn’t have a Kindle or an iPad at that point either, so I probably didn’t check it very well at all).

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I’d had the formatting done before I learned how to make ebooks myself, and I didn’t know how to check it or what to look for.

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Recently I decided to break apart one of my first non-fiction books, a 150,000 word beast of historical non-fiction, into 12 little ebooks, to reach a broader market and start building up my email list to launch a second ridiculously long research book on comparative religious mythology (focusing on revolutionary heroism).īut when I opened up my epub file, I realized it was full of errors! Now I’m fairly decent at taking a Word or InDesign file, converting it to epub and editing it with Sigil, a free editing program. A couple years ago I learned how to format my own ebooks since then I’ve done hundreds.