Ridiculously Simple Self-Publishing: E-Book Formatting 101

If you listen to the "experts" in self-publishing, you would think you needed to spend $1000 or more for each book. You have to hire cover designers, editors (yes, more than one), marketing experts and people to format your book. Just about every one of these tasks dedicated self-publishers can do on their own. 
 

E-book Formatting Made Easy

Formatting a book for Kindle is one facet of self-publishing many people feel is "just too hard" to do. They pay people hundreds of dollars to do something they could do in a half hour using Microsoft Word or just about any other wordprocessing program. It is much simpler than formatting a term paper for college. This book is short because the process is so simple to master. Topics include: 

1. Quick formatting 
2. The Nuclear Option 
3. Setting Styles 
4. Creating a Clickable Table of Contents 
5. Removing Hidden Characters 
6. Understanding Print vs. E-book Formatting 
7. Handling Images 
8. Creating Mobi and Epub Files 

If you have considered publishing on Kindle, there is no better time than now. Self-Publishing doesn't have to be expensive you can do it yourself, and you can start by learning how to format your manuscript for upload to Kindle.