span with a lot of pictures, it’s a
class="cap">N ow better idea to use a desktop
that you have the basic publishing program. Always leave
format for your e-book, it’s time enough of a margin between the
to move on to the finer details. illustration and the text, and
Here are some more tips for add captions when necessary.
formatting your e-book in Word
Front matter. This includes
and converting it into a PDF the title page, a copyright page,
file. acknowledgments, and a table of
Illustrations. E-books often contents. To put together the
include photos, pictures, charts, copyright page, take a look at
and other illustrations. However the copyright page of a print
it’s important to realize that book and use the same formatting
because illustrations contribute and information, using your own
to a larger file size, some name and book title, of course.
e-book publishers only accept Leave out unnecessary items, such
text submissions.
as the Library of Congress
There is more than one way to information. The only time you’ll
add illustrations to your e-book, need an ISBN number is if you’re
but one method is to use a going to sell electronic copies
scanner and then convert the of the book on disk at a later
pictures to .gif or .jpg files. date.
You can then format the photos
The table of contents is easy,
any way you like using software Word automatically generates a
such as Photoshop or the table of contents when you use
GIMP.
“Headings” formats for the
You can’t really add chapter titles and subheads.
illustrations directly into Word
With an e-book it’s better to
(you can, but it’s a nuisance) so label the first page as “Page 1,”
if you plan to create an e-book even if it’s the title page.
Print books don’t follow this hotlink all the URLs in the
format, but it works well for e-book, underline links or make
e-books. them a different color so that
Back matter refers to all the they’ll stick out and your
information you opt to include at readers won’t miss them. There’s
the end of the e-book, such as an no point in creating hotlinks in
index, bio, and contact the original Word document, as
information. Here you can also they will disappear during the
advertise other books you’re conversion process anyways. Save
selling.
this step for Adobe.
Time for Acrobat
Now that you have everything
as “File.” Click the “Print” align="center">
button and that’s it! Your file
is now a PDF, and can be read in Adobe Acrobat. Or, you can visit type="text/javascript">
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