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Do you find the Smashwords' Style Guide intimidating or difficult to read? Are you getting Autovetter errors that don't help you identify your mistakes? Have you uploaded your eBook several times and seem no closer to a successful upload than when you started?
Terry Kepner's Quickstart Guide to Smashwords Publishing uses twelve easy steps to get your eBook successfully through Smashwords' Autovetter, usually on the first try, and into the Premium Catalog for maximum sales.
Where necessary, the Quickstart Guide gives easy-to-understand explanations and why these things matter to producing a quality eBook. It also includes a comprehensive index.
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Terry Kepner's Quickstart Guide to Smashwords Publishing - Terry Kepner
Do you find the Smashwords’ Style Guide intimidating or difficult to read? Are you getting Autovetter errors that don’t help you identify your mistakes? Have you uploaded your eBook several times and seem no closer to a successful upload than when you started?
Terry Kepner’s Quickstart Guide to Smashwords Publishing uses twelve easy steps to get your eBook successfully through Smashwords’ Autovetter, usually on the first try, and into the Premium Catalog for maximum sales.
Where necessary, the Quickstart Guide gives easy-to-understand explanations and why these things matter to producing a quality eBook. It also includes a comprehensive index.
Terry Kepner’s
Quickstart Guide
to
Smashwords Publishing
~~~~~
By Terry Kepner
Flying Chipmunk Publishing
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Terry Kepner’s Quickstart Guide to Smashwords Publishing, by Terry Kepner
Copyright © 2012 by Terry Kepner
Smashwords Edition ISBN: 978-1-61720-877-5
1-61720-877-9
Flying Chipmunk Publishing
162 Onset Road
Bennington, NH 03442
Table of Contents
About this Book
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Twelve-Step Smashwords eBook Process
Chapter 2 – Creating Your MS Word File
Chapter 3 – Styles and Attributes
….Fonts
….Turn These OFF
….Use Styles to Shape Your Text and Paragraphs
….Chapter Headings
Chapter 4 – Search-and-Replace Requirements
Chapter 5 – The Copyright Page
Chapter 6 – Assigning a Font and Font Size to Your eBook
Chapter 7 – Building a Table of Contents
Chapter 8 – Applying Styles, Page-Breaks, and Chapter Starts
….Things to Fix as You Find Them
Chapter 9 – Graphics, Illustrations, Pictures, and Covers
….Image Sizes
….Floating Images
….Embedded Text
Chapter 10 – Linking-up the Table of Contents
Chapter 11 –. Finishing Up
….STARTing Your Book
….Hidden Bookmarks
….Kindles and eReaders versus PC editions
….Unpublishing
Chapter 12 – Special Formatting Considerations
….Tabs in Text
….Symbols
Chapter 13 – Marketing Items Your Book Should Have, But Aren’t Required
….Testimonials/Blurbs
….Bio-Page/Other Titles
….Advertising Other Books
Index
Introduction
Preparing an eBook for Smashwords is a very easy
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