Terry Kepner's Quickstart Guide to Smashwords Publishing

By 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry Kepner
• Release date: Oct 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781617208775

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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.

Terry Kepner’s

Quickstart Guide

to

Smashwords Publishing

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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

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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