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    Smashwords Style Guide – How to Format Your Ebook (Smashwords Guides 1)

    By Mark Coker

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    The Smashwords Style Guide has helped indie authors produce and publish over 130,000 high-quality ebooks. 200,000 copies of the Smashwords Style Guide have downloaded!

    This guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create and format an ebook using Microsoft Word.

    The Smashwords Style Guide is required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and Diesel.

    Authors and publishers who don't yet use Smashwords can still benefit from the Guide. It provides detailed information on how ebook formatting is different from print formatting, how to create a reflowable ebook, and it offers step by step illustrated instructions on how to tame the beast of Microsoft Word.

    INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE

    GETTING STARTED

    Welcome to Smashwords!
    Do-it-yourself, or hire help?
    Good formatting examples
    What Smashwords publishes, what we don’t publish
    Five common formatting mistakes to avoid
    How Smashwords publishes books
    How Smashwords distributes books
    How ebook formatting is different from print formatting
    How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats
    The three secrets to ebook formatting
    How to avoid (and fix) AutoVetter errors
    Introduction to Meatgrinder conversion system
    Your required source file
    Understanding the different ebook formats

    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

    FORMATTING

    Pre-Prep
    Making Word Behave
    Step 1: Make a back up
    Step 2: Activate Word’s Show/Hide
    Step 3: Turn off Word’s “AutoCorrect” and “AutoFormat” features
    Step 4: Eliminate text boxes
    Step 5: The Nuclear Method

    Formatting
    Step 6: Unify Manuscript around Normal paragraph style
    Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts
    Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?)
    Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method
    Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent
    Step 7b-b: How to define trailing “after” space for block paragraphs
    Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials
    Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing
    Step 8: Check your normalized text
    Step 9: Why you should never use tabs or the space bar for indents
    Step 10: Managing paragraph returns
    Step 11: Managing hyperlinks
    Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks
    Step 13: Working with images
    Step 14: Text justification
    Step 14a: Centering text
    Step 15: Managing font sizes
    Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs
    Step 17: Headers and footers
    Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents
    Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional)

    Building Navigation
    Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript
    Step 20a: Creating the NCX
    Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents
    Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes)
    Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing

    Front Matter
    Step 21: Front matter
    Step 21a: Blurbs (optional)
    Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!)
    Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page

    The End of Your Book
    Step 22: The end of your book

    POST-FORMATTING
    Step 23: Preparing your cover image
    Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution

    Uploading Your Book to Smashwords
    Step 25: How to upload your book
    Step 26: How AutoVetter works
    Step 27: After you publish – check your work
    Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!)

    How to Market Your Book
    Step 28: Read the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (also available at Amazon)
    Step 29 Read The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (available at Amazon)

    Helpful Resources
    Send Feedback
    About the Author

    APPENDIX
    Keyboard shortcuts (save hours with these tricks!)

    Revision: June 16, 2012
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