Taleist http://content.taleist.com Helping writers become published authors Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:51:02 +0000 en hourly 1 Helping writers become published authors Taleist no Helping writers become published authors Taleist http://content.taleist.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://content.taleist.com 10. A little motivation http://content.taleist.com/2011/04/22/10-a-little-motivation/ http://content.taleist.com/2011/04/22/10-a-little-motivation/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:18:41 +0000 Steven Lewis http://content.taleist.com/?p=481 This seems like a grand place to insert a little motivation.

Amanda Hocking

Amanda Hocking

Just under two years ago Amanda Hocking published her first book on Amazon. In the meantime, she has made $2 million in royalties from sales of her ebooks and recently signed a seven-figure traditional publishing deal for four books with St Martin’s Press.

Amanda Hocking is 26 years old.

It’s definitely worth cracking this Kindle publishing, isn’t it :-)

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Kindle Formatting coverKindle Formatting can be downloaded as a PDF or as a Kindle ebook file (MOBI).

Download the MOBI

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Video displayDownloads

Kindle Publishing Roadmap includes:

  • a video version (streaming and downloadable)
  • an audio version (streaming and downloadable)
  • seminar handout
    • Kindle version
    • PDF
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In-Book Promotion – Kindle Features to Increase Sales can be downloaded as a PDF or as a Kindle ebook file (MOBI).

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  1. Page size — a Kindle has no “pages” and how much text is shown on the screen is determined by the size the reader chooses for the text. You could format your Word document to be the size of a postage stamp or a billboard and it’s not going to make any difference to what shows up on the Kindle screen.
  2. Margins — while you can indent a paragraph as a <blockquote>, there is no margin per se on the Kindle.
  3. “Sides” — new chapters in a printed book normally start on the right-hand page. The Kindle only shows one “page” at a time so there is no left and right.
  4. Headers and footers — there’s no need for headers and footers in a Kindle ebook. There’s no where for them to go.
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You will see there are various possible classes for your headings, paragraphs, images, captions and so on.

You should first go through your book assigning the right class to the right tags in the book, e.g.:

<p class=”image”>

for images and so on.

Then you can make changes in the CSS to see how they flow through the book, adapting as you go to make sure the book looks as you want it to.

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Changing the H1 CSS

Your H1 CSS should be changed to look like this:

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The document is the first five chapters of Pride and Prejudice formatted into HTML and with a CSS incorporated into the document. I’m going to give you some things to try. I’m also going to ask you to work out some things yourself using what you’ve learned so far. I have put the answers in the next post but I recommend highly that you try to figure it out for yourself first because you’ll get the most benefit this way.

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