Select the image file from your computer and then click Insert. To insert images, click on the Insert tab.Ĭlick on Pictures in the Illustrations section. It is better to insert images into your file. If you want to include images in your nonfiction book, it is highly recommended that you don’t copy and paste images in your Word document. Click on the Justify text button on the Home tab to distribute your text evenly between the margins.
Go through each section of your manuscript and select the body text. If you have subheadings, click on Heading 2 in the Styles section and repeat for all other subheadings in your document. Go through your manuscript and repeat these steps for each title. On the Home tab, click on Heading 1 in the Styles section.Ĭlick on the Center alignment button to place the title in the centre of the page. This will help you later when you have to create a Table of Contents. Step 5: Format Chapter TitlesĪpply Heading 1 style to all of your chapter titles. This will show paragraph marks, page breaks and other hidden formatting symbols. To ensure that you have inserted the page break correctly, go to the Home tab and click on the Show/Hide symbol.
You will not be able to see the page break in your Word document because it is invisible. So the introduction will start on a new page. The page break tells the Kindle or mobile device that it is the end of the title page and that a new page is starting. Step 4: Insert a Page BreakĬlick on the Insert tab and then click on Page Break at the end of the title page. If you have any broken hyperlinks this may annoy your reader and they may stop reading your book.
Test the hyperlink on your title page and wherever you have hyperlinks in your manuscript to ensure that they work. Enter the website address and then click OK. To create a call-to-action link, select the CTA text, click on the Insert tab at the top and click on Hyperlink.
You could create a CTA to get your readers to sign up to your newsletter, download a free e-book, video or training course, or check out your blog. You have the option to include a Call to Action (CTA) on your title page. Select the copyright section and click on Normal style to keep the copyright section as regular text and then click on the Center text button to centre it. Click on the Subtitle style from the Styles section and click on the Center text button to make them both centred. This will remove any stray formatting from your text. On the Home tab on the ribbon above, in the Styles section, click on Normal. Press CTRL+A on your keyboard to select the whole text. If you copied and pasted text from other programs into MS Word, chances are there may be different types of fonts that came from other places that could really mess up the formatting of your manuscript. Step 1: Remove all formatting from your manuscript. Your e-book should contain all of the eight sections listed above. There are some e-books which also include two other sections “Why I wrote this book” and “Why you should read this book”. Most standard nonfiction books contain the following sections:
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to format your nonfiction book for Kindle in the following steps. So I can show you how to format your book quickly and easily. I have self-published 13 e-books so far and I formatted all of them. You also want to make sure that there aren’t huge chunks of white space and that the headings do not take up the entire screen. You want to make sure that your sentences do not run on and on, and that your paragraphs do not contain any strange-looking characters. It is essential that your book is formatted correctly because this will have an impact on your reader’s overall experience viewing your book on their mobile device. If you live in the US, go to, scroll to the bottom and click on the link “Self-Publish with Us”.Ĭlick on Sign Up and Create Your KDP Account.Įnter your contact details and bank account information so that you can earn royalties for your book sales.Īfter you have signed up on Amazon KDP, then you can start formatting your nonfiction book. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the link “Independently Publish with Us”. If you already have an account with Amazon, you can use your same login details to sign up with Kindle Direct Publishing. If you wrote your book in Microsoft Word, then it will be very easy to format your book for Kindle.įirst, if you have not signed up with Amazon KDP, you need to create a new account. What this means is that you will be able to upload your completed manuscript to KDP so that it can be published as a Kindle e-book. Today we will cover how to format your book to publish on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). Last week we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing on Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital.