The simplest way to prepare your book for Kindle — while staying in control of formatting. Markdown is magic, and enables writers everywhere to do their work free from the distractions of bloated word processors. Going from Markdown to publishing on Kindle (aka Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP) can be a bit daunting if you’ve… Continue reading→
Here are some examples of Pandoc switches and CSS which I use in my ebooks. epub CSS file p { margin-bottom: 0; } /* remove the space between line breaks */ p + p { text-indent: 1.3em; margin-top: 0; } /* indent each new line, except when it is after a heading or hr tag… Continue reading→
This is part three of a series explaining how to publish your book using Markdown. PART ONE: How to write your book in Markdown PART TWO: Creating an eBook-friendly EPUB file from Markdown PART THREE: (This post) Create the Kindle MOBI file from your EPUB file Now that you have your EPUB file tested and… Continue reading→
This is part two of a series explaining how to publish your book using Markdown. PART ONE: How to write your book in Markdown PART TWO: (This post) Creating an eBook-friendly EPUB file from Markdown PART THREE: Creating a Kindle MOBI file from your EPUB file In part one, we covered how to write your… Continue reading→
This is the first in a series explaining how to publish your ebook using Markdown, and create all of the formats necessary to upload to Amazon, iBooks, and others. I’ll provide tips and tools which will help you to quickly and easily create and publish your content. PART ONE: (this post) How to write your… Continue reading→