How to Format Your Book in Word - Softcover

Dunbar, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620537108 ISBN 13: 9780620537100

Verlag: ColinDunbar.com, 2016

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Are You Tired of Pulling Your Hair Out Trying to Format Your Book in Word?

You can relax.

You now have available everything you need to format a book in Word – easily and hassle-free. In How to Format Your Book in Word, you are taken from book formatting basics through the steps to format your ebooks and paper book, all the way to upload your book files online. No doubt about it, Word has hundreds of features and tools, but you don’t need ALL of them when formatting a book. The author focuses only on the tools you need to format your book. Therefore you don’t waste time. Book formatting need not be a nightmare anymore. In this book you have all the detailed steps (with over 300 screenshots & images) to enable you to:

•     Format your book for Kindle
  
•     Format your book for Smashwords, and
•     Format your book for CreateSpace.
  

Just some of the items that are covered…

1 Book Formatting Basics

    Book Design Examples
    Book Structure
    Front Matter
    Body Matter
    Back Matter

2 Format Your Kindle Ebook

    Formatting Your Word Manuscript File for Kindle
    Style Ideas for the Kindle
    Ebook Structure

3 Format Your Smashwords Ebook

    Prepare Your Word File
    Paragraph Style
    Style Formatting
    Links
    Table of Contents (ToC) and Navigation
    Create a linked Table of Contents (ToC)
    Adding Bookmarks
    Linking to Bookmarks

4 Designing Your Hard Copy Book

    Book Design Basics
    Book Design Checklist
    Book Design Elements
    Pagination, Page and Section Breaks
    Headings, Headers & Footers
    Set Heading Style
    Tables & Columns
    Text Boxes
    Inserting Cross-references
    Inserting a Table of Contents
    Footnote, Index & Bibliography

5 Uploading and Publishing Your Book Online

    Why Self-Publishing Online Makes Sense
    Self-Publish Your Kindle Ebook
    Self-Publish at Smashwords
    Self-Publishing Your Book to CreateSpace

    ...and a LOT more.

"This book is a goldmine for anyone trying to learn how to format their own books. It’s filled with step-by-step instructions, pictures, and a hyper-detailed process for designing professional looking books. Use it to save countless hours of frustration and hair-pulling." - Derek Murphy, Creativeindie

"I was so pleased when Colin asked me to write the Foreword for this book, because it’s high time someone took you step-by-step through this process, to simplify something that might otherwise be unnecessarily overcomplicated. Now, you have in your hands something more than a book – it’s actually more like a course on formatting and designing your book." - Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and Founder, Author Marketing Experts, Inc., Adjunct Professor, NYU

Save time and hassles and invest in your own copy today!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ColinDunbar.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0620537108
• ISBN 13: 9780620537100
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Dunbar Bronson
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar