I waited long enough!

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KindleNooker

Discussion Starter · May 19, 2011

Ok -- I waited till my cover art was perfect and my editor was done editing. My book is ready but the guy who is doing my conversion from Word to Kindle told me he would not have it back to me by late next week. I've waited long enough! I used kindleprocessor.com to convert it myself just for now. It's not perfect, the chapters don't link to the contents, it's not 1.5 spaced - but it's good enough to read. I just hit "Publish" and I am in review mode. Two questions...

1. Can my basic layout affect me getting approved?

2. As soon as I get the new version from the conversion guy next week, I can upload that in place of the one I have now -- correct

Will the new file be replaced immediatley when I do this?

Was I erroneous in releasing this early?

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Teresa Morgan

· #2 · May 19, 2011

1. Don't think so.
2. No, it takes a couple days for the file to be replaced.

Doesn't sound like it. I don't know about kindleprocessor.com. I just used the Amazon-provided Mobipocket creator.

Congrats on your book!

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Gordon Ryan

· #3 · May 19, 2011

Airwolfe, where did you hear about making the narrative 1.5 spaced?

Gordon Ryan

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HeidiHall

· #4 · May 19, 2011

Hi Airwolfe, I don't blame you at all for wanting to get your book out as soon as possible. Congratulations BTW!

Now for a question of my own... I might be completely naive, but why are so many people paying for formatting? I wrote my book in Word (yes, I'm a PC

) and when finished, converted to HTML to upload for Kindle (I save in other formats for BN & SW). My formatting looks perfect: clean chapter breaks, italics are where they're supposed to be, foreword copy is centered nicely, chapter headings look great, margins and indents are as I'd intended. Am I missing something? I don't use a table of contents because they annoy me as a reader (I hate having to keep forwarding the page to get past them) and it's not something I've seen regularly used in my reading genres of choice (romance, thriller, mystery).

Please let me know your opinions on this because I'm not opposed to hiring someone to do my formatting if required, but it was so easy to do it myself and turned out so well that I've never even considered contracting for the service.

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Victorine

· #5 · May 19, 2011

I think you're fine to upload what you have and then replace it later if the other conversion is better. Congrats on the book!

Vicki

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Mel Comley

· #6 · May 19, 2011

I'm with writergurl I save my Word doc as an html web filtered file and upload. The formatting is spot on. Only for Amazon though, Smashwords is a totallllllly different ball game!

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CJArcher

· #7 · May 19, 2011

Congrats on getting your book out there. I'm another formatting DIYer. I use the Smashwords style guide to clean up the Word doc which is already pretty clean anyway then simply upload the Word file to Amazon.

I dont' have paragrpah indents but I do have space bewteen my paragraphs to clearly define them - I set the Spacing "After" to 12 pts. Everything else is perfect - hyperlinks to my other books, italics, centering and bolding etc.

I've never had any complaints about paragraphs being spaced out rather than indented. It just looks like this post does.

Maybe next time I'll look into converting to HTML first with para indents if it's that easy.

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KindleNooker

Discussion Starter · #8 · May 19, 2011

Gordon Ryan said:
Airwolfe, where did you hear about making the narrative 1.5 spaced?

Gordon Ryan

Hi Gordon -- what is standard spacing? 1? 2? I'm not an experienced author.

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KindleNooker

Discussion Starter · #9 · May 19, 2011

WriterGurl1 said:
Hi Airwolfe, I don't blame you at all for wanting to get your book out as soon as possible. Congratulations BTW!

Now for a question of my own... I might be completely naive, but why are so many people paying for formatting? I wrote my book in Word (yes, I'm a PC ) and when finished, converted to HTML to upload for Kindle (I save in other formats for BN & SW). My formatting looks perfect: clean chapter breaks, italics are where they're supposed to be, foreword copy is centered nicely, chapter headings look great, margins and indents are as I'd intended. Am I missing something? I don't use a table of contents because they annoy me as a reader (I hate having to keep forwarding the page to get past them) and it's not something I've seen regularly used in my reading genres of choice (romance, thriller, mystery).

Please let me know your opinions on this because I'm not opposed to hiring someone to do my formatting if required, but it was so easy to do it myself and turned out so well that I've never even considered contracting for the service.

I am not too tech savvy. I could not figure out the paragraph indents and I think the Introduction header is at the bottom of my contents page. I also don't have word! I had to use the Kinkos computer for Word! I should have hired YOU!