Amazon.com has detailed instructions on how to turn your book into a Kindle e-book. It gives directions for both Mac and PC platforms. But the basic premise is that you have to use your original Word document to make the change. They recommend Word because it's easy to format. If you have your book broken into separate files for each chapter, start a file called "Your Book, Kindle version" and copy/past each chapter into the one file. Insert a Page Break at the end of each chapter. Save your file to a .doc file and not .rtf or .docx. The newer versions of Word do not translate well to Kindle.
I am now converting Self Publishing in Canada Second Edition to a file for the Kindle reader. Of course I will use other formats too. Most public libraries across Canada are using the Kobo reader as their platform for lending e-books. That is a whole different format to convert our books into. So why can't they just have a standard? Is there an easy way to convert books to e-books?
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