If you take an ePub and change the extension to “.zip,” you can unzip it and look at the contents. As it turns out, the ePub format is just a varient of HTML, so what I know about web design translated fairly easily. I spent a couple of months trying to figure out the best and most reliable way to do this on my Mac without buying software I didn’t already have.įor my first book, I did it all in HTML. Without some major work, it’s going to be problematic because Kindle owners can tweak settings like font size and margin, throwing your design into chaos. Don’t try to create a beautiful print book … for Kindle. Sometimes the failures were catastrophic like JK Rowling’s most recent book. Almost universally, these attempts were met with failure. I’ve seen examples where people tried to create a perfect representation of a paper book for Kindle. So that begs the questions, “How do you get your draft into a mobi file?” There’s no “save for Kindle” option in either Word or Pages.įirst, consider the medium. I’ve personally used html, mobi, and ePub and have had the best results with mobi. You can upload a Word file, but you’d probably regret it.Īmazon supposedly takes “Word (DOC or DOCX), HTML (ZIP, HTM, or HTML), Mobipocket (MOBI), ePub (EPUB), Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF), Adobe PDF (PDF)” files, but most of these will either have formatting problems or won’t take advantage of Kindle’s ability to change font size.
You might think that publishing a book on Kindle is just as easy as taking a MS Word file and uploading it.
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