Five things to do when revising a Kindle e-book

Once I had finished my Smashwords e-book, I realized that I needed to make changes to the Kindle version in order to make the reading of Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino as enjoyable on Kindle as on Smashwords. The easiest way to do this, I thought, was to start with the .mobi file…

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Gettting Women of the Way onto Smashwords was not only easy but the process led to a better reader experience.

After my struggle to get the book into the Kindle format, I was dreading preparing the manuscript  for Smashwords. That dread was needless. I used Mark Coker’s The Smashwords Style Guide rev 6.16.12. Because I had created my book using styles, I did not purge my manuscript of hidden Word corruption by using “the nuclear…

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Getting Women of the Way onto Kindle was difficult, involving many iterations, and not at all satisfactory

I first published Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino on June 25th on createspace.com. It took just a few hours to prepare the book for Kindle format using the Building Your Book for Kindle guidelines. Since I wrote the book using styles, this part of the preparation was easy. I wanted a functioning Table…

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