Black Friday From Word to Kindle: Self Publishing Your Kindle Book with Microsoft Word, or How to Format a Text-Only Document in Microsoft Word and Convert to a Kindle eBook

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"From Word to Kindle: Self Publishing Your Kindle Book with Microsoft Word, or How to Format a Text-Only Document in Microsoft Word and Convert to a Kindle eBook" Overview

One of the most common methods of preparing Kindle Books -- and one of the most highly recommended by Amazon -- is to start with a Microsoft Word document, convert it to HTML, and then submit it on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing site for final conversion to Kindle format. You can find instructions for this around the Web and in books on Kindle publishing. Most often, these instructions are based on the premise that Word's HTML output requires extensive alteration and cleanup before submission.

This is exactly wrong.

At least for a text-only book, Word's HTML is almost perfectly suited to Kindle conversion with little or no change. Yes, Word's export generates a lot of excess code, but not as much if you choose the right option -- and the excess that remains is ignored by the Kindle converter. Meanwhile, the best way to control the limited kinds of formatting available for Kindle Books is with formatting you apply to the Word document itself. You might never have to open the HTML file at all!

Follow these quick tips to get your text-only ebook into a format that Kindle readers will love.

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Aaron Shepard is the author of several prominent books on the NEW business of self publishing, including "Aiming at Amazon," "POD for Profit," and "Perfect Pages."

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