How to Format Your eBook (.EPUB) and Upload to Kindle
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In this highly anticipated video, I provide a tutorial to format your ebook in .epub format, and also show you what it looks like when you upload to Kindle. Please be aware that your manuscript needs to be pre-formatted BEFORE converting to .epub in Calibre. This is why I recommend downloading a free book formatting template from www.diybookformats.com, AND THEN uploading to Calibre. It's a two-step process!
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Getting ready to publish my first book. You just saved me the $49-$100 I was going to pay someone else to do this for me. Thank you!
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3 жыл бұрын
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Thank you for your generous advice. I have been stumbling around the youtube community looking for someone that would explain the basics of getting published. Your video tutorial is perfect. All inclusive without being to abrupt and at the same time concise and user friendly. I wish you luck with your newest book, and now I stumble onward.
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4 жыл бұрын
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Oh My Goodness! Thank you so much! It's one thing researching these topics and reading about how to do it, but seeing it from someone you trust is so much better. Thank you.
@sugarcookiesart
7 жыл бұрын
F.B. Leach I agree with you!!!!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!!
@astridgullden5732
6 жыл бұрын
I discovered your video on Worship fixer formula - there plenty more a useful videos there that should help you
Hello Kristen! I am new to self-publishing and my first project is waiting to be finalized. I have been through a sea of confusion regarding the needed tweaks and do/don'ts of self-publishing. Your video has given me a place at the starter's gate. No doubt, I will be able to begin the task of completing the manuscript phase which will save a lot of ink because my book series is a blend of text and graphics. I am going be using your advice throughout the book creation adventure. Thank you for being you!
I am doing research for the first time on E-Books. What I just learned from you is by far the best so far in just 10 minutes. Incredible - "Thank You" and please continue.......
Not all heroes were capes! I have been fighting with formatting for the last two weeks. Even though I used a template for the KDP Paperback, the ebook was ALL KINDS OF CRAZY when it uploaded. I paid someone to format it (not very much) and it still wasn't quite right. So, I looked for a video to make the adjustments I needed without having to go back and forth with the formatter over the next few days. After I downloaded calibre and watched your vid, I had both copies, KDP and EPUB back in the system in less than an hour! Thanks, again!
Thank you for sharing this video! I've referred to this video several times and have found it very useful.
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Lawrrrrrd, sistah girl, THANK YOU!!! You made this VERY clear and easy to follow. Great Video and Congrats on all your books!!
I just uploaded my first kindle to Amazon! Thank you so much for walking me through the process! I will follow you for more great nuggets.
Thanks. I admire your hustle.
Wow, I just love your book covers. So professional and the video is really helpful. I have more clarity now. Thank you.
This is great! This is something I've been curious about, thanks for uploading!
thank you so much video was so help 100 times better than what ive been watching for like an hour. You provided great info.
I really love these behind the scenes vids. So helpful! Thanks for sharing.
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the feedback!
Definitely my procrastination has been an issue and I've been wanting to publish a book for a few years now. I need to do it, so someone like you to help me and sort of re-spark that would be wonderful.
Thanks Kristen for the step-by-step guide! I'll be uploading my e-book at KDP soon.
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing. My niece is a kid author and I'm trying to learn as much as I can to help her out so her parents don't have to go broke in the process of helping her publish. They paid a small fortune to have a first book publish and I was like "I'll bet I can do that." Thanks to you, now I can give it a try with her second book.
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Wishing you the best of luck!
Finally, clear and short to the point explanation. Thank you.
This video tutorial is the real deal. Thanks so much for the efforts made to achieve this. Some things are becoming clearer now. God bless you real good.
Just a great video! Thank you! I will look into reading your books just because of this helpful video :)
This is a fantastic video, so much great knowledge!!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, John!!
ONE WEEK OMG!!!!! So pumped for that 3rd book. also this was supper helpfull thank you for your vedios. I never really thought about doing an e-book but I think I will now!!! Have a good day!!!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
I know, one week! It's hard to believe!
VERY WELL EXPLAINED! THANK YOU KRISTEN.
Kristen, you have no idea how you saved my day, Thxxxxx 💕
Thanks for sharing Kristen! Super helpful!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
This is a great video!! Thank you so much! :) I know I'll have to catch up on all your videos when I return to the Internet in May!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
I'm happy you liked it!
Your information is still helpful in 2021. Thank You so much, your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated. Peace, and Blessings!
@AuthorKristenMartin
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! 😃
Fabulous so much information thank you Kristen I've liked and subscribed x
Girl! Thank you so so much! This will save me a ton of time!! 👏👏👏👏
Thank you for this! I found this video extremely helpful!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the feedback!!
Actually helped. Thank you!
Thanks, I am going to try to upload some books later. Your hair and eyes are Beautiful! Great presentation.
Thank so much for making this so clear!
Thank you so much for this video it really helps 🤩🤩
That was awesome! Thank you for sharing!
FINALLY someone giving me clear instructions on how to use this program Calibre and how to SUBMIT my epub book to amazon!
Out of all the people, I am subscribed too, I believe you give the most attention to your subscribers. I am always seeing you reply to comments, and I can tell you put a lot of time and love into all your videos. I want you to know that you are way too good to have only 9k subscribers. I have your books in my amazon cart (physical), Which is an awesome compliment since I only keep my absolute favorite authors in physical books, like Irving Stone, Bryan Jaques, and Charles Dickinson. I have to admit, I have never read any of your books yet, but if you put half the work into your books as you do your videos I know I will not be disappointed. I know my ideas are jumping around here a lot and I am not the greatest of writers, I have been a numbers guy most of my life, Programming is my fortee, but I am now thinking may one day I could write too. I know I am probably never going to strike it rich as a writer, but I am ok with that. I think being a writer, at least for me is someone who needs to tell their story. I think that's more important (the act of telling your story), and having readers is just an extra bonus. I want you to know you have inspired me to do more and come out of my comfort zone, so thank you. Yes I used Grammarly on this.
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I really do appreciate you taking the time to write this comment. The interaction piece of KZread is one of my favorite parts! I love getting to know other people and help answer writing questions and get to know others and their writing journey. It's nice to know that it's noticed 😃😃
Thanks for helping me out on this writing adventure!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
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SUPER HELPFUL!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! Saved me so much money from buying books from Amazon store.
Thank you very much for the valuable information
thank you for this, very helpful.
I'm sitting here in awe because my past two novels I've manually formatted everything myself. It took days and you're telling me it was this simple??? Well, I know what I'm doing for formatting book #3
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Awww, well at least this time it will be much easier!!
@MandiLynnWrites
7 жыл бұрын
Haha no kidding!
I second what NAPHISA said! You're a life saver!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Kristen thanks.. For sharing this.
thank you for this info, i really needed it
Great vid! Big help.
Thanks for the tip this was great! This will really help me write my ebook! :)
WOW eye opener ! Thank you so much !
Very informative and easy to understand :) and quick!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Love hearing that!
Super thanks! I'm dumb about this kind of stuff. You saved me.
Love it!!! This help me a lot!!
Thank you so much! Kristen Martin
This was helpful! Thanks
This is amazing!!! Thank you for sharing.
Hi, this is a very useful topic. Thanks a lot.
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Love hearing that!
Awesome and valuable content! Thanks for sharing :-)
Thanks, this was really helpfull
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Thanks for sharing.
Thank you SO much 😁 - a very helpful video!! ❤
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@petrosmilos2321
6 жыл бұрын
Great video content! Excuse me for chiming in, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you tried - Tarbbatigan ebook master Tip (should be on google have a look)? It is a smashing exclusive guide for learning how to create an ebook minus the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my mate finally got amazing success with it.
@johnlaguna795
6 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Sorry for the intrusion, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you tried - Proutklarton Winner System Plan (Sure I saw it on Google)? It is a good one off product for discovering how Stefan makes 6 figures passive income publishing books without the hard work. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my close friend Aubrey after a lifetime of fighting got excellent results with it.
@lorenzoa.fernandezjr.585
6 жыл бұрын
Nice video content! Excuse me for chiming in, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you thought about - Proutklarton Winner System Plan (probably on Google)? It is a smashing one off product for discovering how Stefan makes 6 figures passive income publishing books minus the headache. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my cooworker after a lifetime of fighting got excellent success with it.
Nice Tutorial. Thanks
Thank you alot, so through Calibre, i can manage and uploade my book writen on Word
Loved it
Thank you for your great video. Your showed how to make a (.epub) and upload it to Amazon but do you have any video how you format your word document and format it?
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your help🙏Bless you❤
Thanks for the video
Thanks for this video!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
You're so welcome!
Awesome content.
Thank you! This was so helpful!!!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
You're so welcome!
Great video!! Just a question--How do I fix my formatting? When I view my document in Word, everything is spaced nicely. But once I upload the manuscript to kdp everything seems to be off centered. Thanks!
Thank you so much 😊
Hi, Kristen! I think it's great you're providing this type of video for fans/viewers! I've never used Calibre for formatting, but it seems really simple (I use Scrivener for everything) and I might consider using that when I have clients who need formatting. Do you ever run into issues when special formatting is needed, such as page centering, fonts, etc.? Or does it just take exactly what is in word and translates it to ebook? by the way, I love the cover of your newest book! Looks really awesome!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Calibre is super simple, that's why I use it :) I don't run into any formatting issues because I use a pre-made template from diybookformats.com
Thanks for the video - your writing is really good too. Can I ask, do you make more money out of print sales or Kindle/ibooks, and do you have to do heaps of marketing/self-promotion to make it workable?
Thanks really good job.
Thanks for this video
Awesome......thank you
Awesome 😎 thanks!! ❤️
THANK YOU SO MUCH KRISTEN! THIS SERIOUSLY HELPED A TON!!!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
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@rubelrana304
4 жыл бұрын
@naphisa did you publish any book?
@mykasiurka
4 жыл бұрын
Appreciate video content! Forgive me for chiming in, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you researched - Tarbbatigan ebook master Tip (do a google search)? It is a great one of a kind product for learning how to create an ebook without the hard work. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my best friend Jordan at last got astronomical success with it.
That so useful, thank you so much
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
Great! Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much! Quick question - would this same method also work for children's picture books? I pay to have mine formatted, but it would be so much better to be able to do it myself. Thanks again!
life saver! thanks!
Thank you😊
Amazing video.. thank you young lady, regards from Saudi Arabia Kingdom; I am trying to know what is ebook publishing and how to. Your video is a great help for my self-learning effort.
Thank You!
thanks a tons. Is this going to be the same formatting process for picture books?
Great video !
Just stumbled across this, and it was very helpful. I want to clarify something. So by using Calibre that makes all the formatting consistent? Do you still have to manually insert page breaks, headings, etc in Word if you use that software?
Thanks for sharing good info. I’m a bit confused about whether you got the “Calibre” format from“diybookformat” or if you meant, write the first draft on one of the diybookformats (instead of Microsoft word?) before uploading to Calibre though?
THANK YOU :)
Hi Kristen! Thank you for the video. So you wrote your book in microsoft office I assume? May I ask if you used the paid or free version for that? And then you uploaded to calibre, etc. as per the video. But did you do any formatting at all in microsoft office as you went along? I ask because how does one know how much spacing to put between title, table of contents, etc? Do you just use a hardback book to model that stuff after, one page for each?
Thanks! This is awesome! Quick question... I saw on another tutorial to type it clean, no "enters" etc... to use page breaks. Is that necessary if you use the website that you reference in your video? Should it just be submitted to the website in a giant paragraph? Just a little confused about chapter heading and paragraphs etc... Help, please!
Thanks a million!
Thanks for making it fairly easy! It's very helpful!
@AuthorKristenMartin
7 жыл бұрын
It is quite simple! Happy it helped!
You are an angel!
Thanks
Super cool, Kristen :)
Thanks so much! Do you have a video about getting paid for Kindle books?
Thank you.