Kindle converts your file to its proprietary ebook format, and as long as your text fits on the screen, you will pass. The problem with this is that any poor formatting that is inherent in your document will affect the quality of your ebook. I have read many Kindle ebooks that have suffered from this problem. It is extremely annoying when fonts, line spacing, and paragraph formatting change, and page breaks create unwanted blank pages, or the table of contents is incorrect. You can avoid all of these problems by formatting your ebook correctly before you start uploading and publishing. When publishing with Smashwords, your ebook file needs to be suitable for nine different ebook formats, not just one. It is why you need to change your thinking from merely producing a Word document to producing an ebook file.Ī well-formatted ebook file will appear exactly the same in any ebook format, including Kindle, RTF, and epub files. I now have the habit of preparing a new book for Smashwords first and then publishing it to KDP. Then I can be sure that the ebook will be perfect on Kindle as well. #TURN OFF FORMATTING IN WORD FOR OUTLINE UPDATE#.
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