Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO E-BOOKS
- Micro-history
- Difference between e-books and print books
- File formats
- E-book readers
- Industry changes
CHAPTER TWO STEPS TO A GOOD E-BOOK
- Step one—Write a good book
- Step two—Edit a good book
- Step three—Create a great cover
- Step four—Consider the reader
CHAPTER THREE DECISIONS
- Technical details
- Who is doing the work?
- Distribution channels
- Directly from Amazon, Apple App Store, etc.
- Third Party Distributors (Aggregators)
- Your Website
- In Person
- Sidebars, pull quotes, and other extras
- Exclusivity
- Sharing
- Which comes first: print or e-book?
CHAPTER FOUR AMAZON PUBLSHING SERVICES
CHAPTER FIVE WHILE YOU WRITE
- Title
- Description
- Categories
- Keywords
- Cover
- Marketing
- Set up accounts
- Other Types of Accounts
- Price
- Website/blog
CHAPTER SIX OTHER PRE-PUBLICATION CONSIDERATIONS
- Pricing
- The Audience
- The Competition
- The Cost
- Marketing
- Through Your Website
- Social Media
- Using the Crowd
- Prerelease campaign
CHAPTER SEVEN THE FOUNDATION
- Elements of an e-book
- Font
- File Name
- Covers
- Content
- Photos, Graphics, Sidebars, Pull Quotes
- Table of Contents and Index
- Front Matter
CHAPTER EIGHT BASIC STEPS TO FORMATTING
- Let’s begin
- Cleaning up
- Hidden Format Code
- Basic starting steps
- Change Fonts
- Sidebars
CHAPTER NINE NEXT FORMATTING STEPS
- Inserting page breaks
- Now the small details
- Paragraphs
- Preparing the table of contents
- Building the table of contents
CHAPTER TEN FINAL FORMATTING DETAILS
- Front matter
- Footnotes
- Website URLs
CHAPTER ELEVEN GRAPHICS, TEXT BOXES, COVERS
- Images
- Text Boxes
- Tables
- Text with Graphics
- File Storage
- Inserting images
- Fixed-layout books
- Covers
- One Small Detail
CHAPTER TWELVE PUBLISHING YOUR E-BOOK
- File type
- Prepare the HTML file
- Conversion step one—HTML
- Conversion step two—Graphic files
- File Upload
- Uploading your book
- Correcting problems
- Problems after publishing
CHAPTER THIRTEEN TROUBLESHOOTING
- Test, test, test
- More eyes
- Mr. Mod’s Checklist
APPENDIX 1 FORMATTING CHECKLIST
APPENDIX 2 E-PUBLISHING TERMS
APPENDIX 3 SET UP KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING (KDP) ACCOUNT
APPENDIX 4 FORMATTING PDF E-BOOKS
APPENDIX 5 CHANGES FOR EPUB FILES
APPENDIX 6 METADATA AND KEYWORDS
APPENDIX 7 PRINT BOOKS
APPENDIX 8 RESOURCES
