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Building Your Book for Kindle Kindle Direct Publishing This free guide will walk you through the necessary steps in creating a professional digital file of your book using Microsoft Word 2010 for quick upload to Kindle Direct Publishing.
These are the topics we'll discuss:
• Before You Write
• Building the Front Matter of Your Book
• Building Your Table of Contents
• Preparing a Cover
• Finishing Your Book
• Uploading and Checking the Quality of Your Book
• Just Before Publishing Your Book
• Making Changes After Publishing Your Book
We've written this guide with you in mind. We'll walk you through the key steps for every part of the process, and while it may seem repetitive at times, we want to make sure you have exactly the information you need, when you need it.
And don't forget — this is a process! Publishing on Kindle is easy and takes only 5 minutes of your time — but correctly preparing your book for success on Kindle takes time and effort. Don't worry; if you follow the steps we outline here, you should feel confident you'll end up with a successfully designed and formatted book and one you will be proud to see for sale on Amazon. |
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Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing Kindle Direct Publishing A free guide to publishing your book on Kindle with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). KDP is a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets anyone upload and format their titles for sale in the Kindle Store.
It's Your Thing.
Have a book you want to sell? Sign up with Kindle Direct Publishing and publish your content in the Amazon Kindle Store.
Do It.
If you have an Amazon.com account, you're already signed up with Kindle Direct Publishing. Start publishing now!
Your Way.
Kindle Direct Publishing gives you everything you need to become your own publisher today. See for yourself.
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The Digital Photography Book, Volume 1 Scott Kelby This is the eBook version of the printed book. Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using the same tricks today's top digital pros use (and it's easier than you'd think). This entire book is written with a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: "If you and I were out on a shoot, and you asked me, 'Hey, how do I get this flower to be in focus, but I want the background out of focus?' I wouldn't stand there and give you a lecture about aperture, exposure, and depth of field. In real life, I'd just say, 'Get out your telephoto lens, set your f/stop to f/2.8, focus on the flower, and fire away.' You d say, 'OK,' and you'd get the shot. That's what this book is all about. A book of you and I shooting, and I answer the questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I've learned just like I would with a friend, without all the technical explanations and without all the techno-photo-speak." This isn't a book of theory—it isn't full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts: this is a book of which button to push, which setting to use, when to use them, and nearly two hundred of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade" to get you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos with your digital camera every time you press the shutter button. Here's another thing that makes this book different: each page covers just one trick, just one single concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you'll learn another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. There's never been a book like it, and if you're tired of taking shots that look "OK," and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, "Why don't my shots look like that?" then this is the book for you. |
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Calibre - the E-Book Tool - First Steps, Tips & Tricks Mirko Russo, Frank Grossklaus Calibre is the software tool No. 1 for readers of e-books around the world. This manual guides you through the main functions of the e-book management software in simple language. Learn how to use Calibre for reading, managing e-book collections and converting different file formats. Step by step the authors explain the graphic user interface and give valuable tips and tricks which go way beyond the software’s functionality. The e-book is completed by a collection of links which are necessary for every e-book fan.
FREE PERIODIC UPDATES are included in the price!
Master large e-book libraries or other document collections for private, scholarly and professional use!
From the Table of Contents (excerpt):
What is Calibre?
The Calibre Functions
Installing Calibre
PART 1 - User Interface
The Main Toolbar
The Book List
Book Details
The Search Bar
The Tag Browser
Basic Functions
Simple Filters
Advanced Filters
Creating Your Own User Categories
PART 2 - Reading & Converting E-books
The "View"-Menu
The Buttons
The "Edit metadata" Menu
"Edit metadata individually"
"Edit metadata in bulk"
"Download metadata and covers"
"Merge book records"
The "Convert books" Menu
The "Library" Menu
PART 3 - Synchronizing Devices
Introduction
The "Connect/share" Menu (Part 1)
The "Add books" Menu
The "Send to device" Menu
The "Save to disk" Menu
The "Remove books" Menu
PART 4 - Importing & Exporting E-books
The "Get books" Menu
The "Fetch news" Menu
The "Connect/share" Menu (Part 2)
"Start Content Server"
Calibre Cloud with Dropbox
PART 5 - Preferences
"Interface" Overview
The "Interface" Menu
"Look and Feel"
"Book Details"
"Tag Browser"
"Cover Browser"
"Column Coloring"
"Conversion"
"Output Options"
"EPUB Output"
"MOBI Output"
„Import/Export“
"Sending books to devices"
"Sharing"
"Advanced"
Additional Buttons
PART 6 - Additional Tips & Tricks
Calibre's Problems with PDF Files
Helpful Links
More Sources for Free E-books
Lending Platforms
Troubleshooting
Calibre & the Apple Universe
OverDrive
APPENDIX
Calibre Shortcuts
E-book Formats
How to identify your IP address |
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Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual Peter Meyers Enter a bright new world of entertainment with Amazon’s red hot tablet. This guide lights the way with lots of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for browsing the Web, emailing, playing games, and viewing books, movies, and magazines in blazing color. Learn how to manage your media library on the Fire and in the cloud—and where to find the coolest apps. Everything you need is right here. The important stuff you need to know: - Read all about it. Find, load, and read a variety of ebooks, magazines, and newspapers.
- Go online. Browse the Web and manage email with a secure Wi-Fi connection.
- Put on a show. Watch movies and TV series, and showcase your photos and videos.
- Fill up your jukebox. Listen to your favorite music from Amazon and iTunes.
- Load up on apps. Get popular games, guides, references, and more with Amazon’s Apps for Android.
- Take your briefcase. Read PDFs, Word files, Excel spreadsheets, and other docs.
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Word eBook formatting: How to use your word processor to format your eBook for Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other reading devices Charles Findlay Every book starts in a word processor, but once that's done where do you go? Most advice is to take that document and turn it into HTML for conversion and not use Word for making your ebook.
This is wrong. For most text documents, simple formatting in Word is sufficient to generate a high quality eBook.
This article is designed for authors who are unfamiliar with HTML and who would prefer to simply use Word to format their eBook.
All the necessary steps to format your eBook using only Word will be covered.
Topics Include:
- Paragraph Styling and why it's important
- Working with Images
- Creating your Table of Contents
- Additional Links and Resources
- Advanced user conversion advice
This article is approximately ~6,000 words |
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Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual Barbara Brundage Elements 10 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It's a great tool for most image-editing buffs—whether you’re a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist. But Elements still doesn't come with a useful manual. This bestselling book helps you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac users. The important stuff you need to know: - Quickly learn your way around. Customize Elements to suit your working style.
- Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick image fixes with ease.
- Retouch any image. Learn how to repair and restore old and damaged photos.
- Add pizzazz. Give images more zip with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.
- Design with words. Make text flow along a curved path or around an object or shape.
- Find your creative flair. Create scrapbooks, greeting cards, photo books, and more.
- Try out advanced techniques. Work with layers, blend modes, and other tools.
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WordPress Themes: How-to easily edit free WordPress blog themes yourself! (WordPress Blogging How-To Series) Tracy Austin There are more WordPress themes today than grains of sand on a beach. This is wonderful, but sometimes too many choices can lead to confusion. Using a free theme designed by someone other than WordPress might lead to incompatibility with widgets and plug-ins that you want to use. The biggest benefit to using the WordPress default theme, and customizing it yourself, is that the code is already as close to perfect as you can get, meaning you are building your blog upon a solid foundation.
This book will teach you how to create your own theme customizations, by creating and using a child theme, with the WordPress default theme as your foundation. You will learn exactly what a child theme is, how to create one, and how to use it to customize your WordPress blog.
This book is a step-by-step outline that anyone can follow. It walks you through exactly how to make many popular edits to the WordPress default theme yourself. It is written in plain English and the customizations can be easily accomplished by the average reader and any level WordPress user.
This is Book 2 in the WordPress Blogging How-To Series. Book 1 is titled “How to Set-Up a WordPress Self-Hosted Blog: “So you can be blogging in 30 minutes or less!” which is also available through Amazon.
It is suggested that, after purchase, you add this ebook to a free Kindle Reader on your computer, so you can cut and paste the codes included inside.
Note: The instructions in this book require you to upload files to your blog host’s servers via FTP.
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Kindle - How to Publish, Promote & Profit Tom Heatherington “Kindle, How To Publish, Promote & Profit” is a step-by-step blueprint that will guide readers through the formatting process, and explain every detail of what is needed to create awareness for their book, and drive targeted 'ready-to-buy' prospects to the Amazon sales page. Readers will learn how to make “noise” online that gets the attention of search engines and the people (prospective buyers) looking for information related to your book's topic. You can publish your book TODAY on Kindle!However, finding people to buy your book is the greater challenge. “Kindle, How To Publish, Promote & Profit” provides a marketing strategy for online promotion. You will learn how to position your book to increase your rank in search results using resources that deliver proven, time-tested effects. As the title suggests, this is a ‘how-to’ book about Kindle publishing, but MOST importantly the primary focus is about marketing and promoting your book for maximum success and profits. The devil is in the detailsAmazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) provides much of what you need to self-publish your book and for the most part it is an easy process – if you know exactly what to do. The devil is in the details and specifics such as formatting your manuscript correctly, designing a compelling cover, pricing your book to sell and how to promote your book to maximize sales are critical elements that Amazon omits. Some of the things you will learn from this book include:
- How to ensure you choose the best title that will drive more sales
- Formatting tips to improve how your book appears on a Kindle
- Where to find expert cover designers on the cheap
- How to make your Amazon sales page sizzle
- Branding you – and your book
- Attracting a targeted audience
- Pricing your book to sell
- Where to get a free domain name for your book promotion efforts
- How to develop ‘Social Proof’
- How to leverage Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest to increase sales
- How to create additional revenue streams with your book
- How to sell your book utilizing other sales channels
- And a whole lot more...
This is NOT a book about how to write a book! The book purposely avoids subjects such as grammar, sentence structure, conflict resolution, protagonists, antagonist or any of the countless topics involved in the creative writing process. YOUR book what you bring to the table; helping you sell more of your books is the author’s objective. As a marketing professional with a twenty year record of Internet promotional expertise, he has consulted with TV personalities, NFL celebrities and Fortune 500 companies, but his primary focus is helping small businesses market their products and services online. His other books include the SEO & Social Media Marketing Guide (a Kindle book) and a print book, "The Complete Small Business Internet Guide". |
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JavaScript: The Good Parts Douglas Crockford Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.
Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables.
When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including:
- Syntax
- Objects
- Functions
- Inheritance
- Arrays
- Regular expressions
- Methods
- Style
- Beautiful features
The real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Of course, if you want to find out more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, simply consult any other JavaScript book.
With JavaScript: The Good Parts, you'll discover a beautiful, elegant, lightweight and highly expressive language that lets you create effective code, whether you're managing object libraries or just trying to get Ajax to run fast. If you develop sites or applications for the Web, this book is an absolute must. |