Scrivener, the writing suite from Literature & Latte, has a trial version that’s free and fully-featured for thirty days of actual use, meaning that if you use it two days a week it’ll last for fifteen weeks. It’s adaptable to Windows with some experimentation, but certain features–most notably Front Matter–are either reduced in functionality or missing altogether.) Setup: Install Scrivener (Note that what I’ve written below is Mac-oriented.
So how would you like to accomplish this in under ten minutes? If you’ll trust me and step back from Word, I’ll show you how to cure your KDP headache forever. doc, check it in the KDP’s previewer, discover problems, fix them, re-upload, re-check, re-fix… ad nauseam and all too often, ad infinitum. It’s a bit of a Sophie’s Choice small wonder the exercise often degenerates into tedium and frustration. Attempting to produce your e-book in a pleasing design that reflects the care and craftsmanship you put into your writing.Trying to force Microsoft Word to generate the lowest-common-denominator format required by the KDP, while.When following the standard do-it-yourself process, your objectives may seem mutually exclusive: If you’re an independently-published author then you’ve likely beaten your head against the Great Wall of Amazon that is the Kindle Direct Publishing platform, or KDP. I’m currently working on a Windows version, but I’m postponing its release pending upgrades to Scrivener for Windows’s ability to compile PDFs, since I consider CreateSpace and other print-on-demand services to be essential outlets for independent authors. My e-book formatting guide is likewise Mac-oriented. For more information see this thread in L&L’s discussion forum. That said, Literature & Latte, the developer of Scrivener, is working towards feature parity between the two versions. While it’s adaptable for use in Scrivener for Windows, it’s not identical.
Here he steps you through the process so you can do it, too.Īfter receiving several comments from disappointed users of Scrivener for Windows, I’d like to make it crystal clear that the process below is primarily written for Scrivener’s Mac version. By Ed Ditto ( Ditto, an experienced author and ghostwriter, has developed an extremely fast way of moving his books from Word, through Scrivener, and into the Amazon Kindle’s Mobi format for uploading to Kindle Direct Publishing.
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