Shares 196 Amazon has launched a new tool that lets you make an ebook out of a Word file. It is called, and was released this week for Windows and macOS. Amazon has released a number of tools you can use to make Kindle ebooks, including an epub conversion tool as well as Kindle, Kindle, and Kindle. Those apps produced picture books, PDF textbooks, and comics books, variously. Kindle Create, on the other hand, was built to make all those things, as well as novels. Edit: And just to be clear, this app makes a file you can upload to the Kindle store. It does not make an ebook you can read yourself. You can give it either a DOC or a PDF file, and once it ingests the file you can edit the text, format the chapter and section headings, embed audio and video clips, and make other changes. From what I have seen this morning, what you can do with an ebook project is limited by the format you started with; the audio and video clips, for example, can be embedded when you start with a PDF but not a DOC. (Or maybe the app just didn't want to cooperate with me?) In any case, I am still playing with the app, and so are authors on the and. At least one of the authors on the KDP forums is really impressed with the app: Pros: *Very easy app for Wordsters to use. *You can use a Word doc, docx or a PDF file in Kindle Create. Find out how to make a PDF document in this. Some of these can covert PDFs back into the. Type a name for the PDF in the File Name box or select one. Jan 08, 2016 How to Convert a Word Document to Epub. Do you want to convert your Word Document to an Epub or Mobi file? You can create with a table of contents and chapter breaks. *Automatically detects and splits chapter heading styles according to heading layout. *Easily and manually allows you to create a TOC, add chapter subtitles and add separators to your Kindle ebook. *You can also restyle your ebook text just using point and click. *You can also directly edit your text in the app in Text View. This is a huge plus!! *You can test your ebook in-app using their modified version of Kindle Previewer 3.8 Beta. *You can also use their Template to create your ebook from scratch. *Gives a reliable and quick conversion using Advanced Typesetting. *Kindle Create Help documentation is fairly thorough and easy to follow. *When I converted my Word doc without cover(its an old ebook on amazon now) to kbc -- the total file size was 1.2 Mb. When I converted the same ebook as a pdf doc with cover to kbc -- the total file size was 1.4 Mb. So this Kindle Create app has a converter that also uses efficient file compression. *It's a fast app -- no waiting. Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader: “I’ve been into reading ebooks since forever, but I only got my first ereader in July 2007. Everything quickly spiraled out of control from there. Before I started this blog in January 2010 I covered ebooks, ebook readers, and digital publishing for about 2 years as a part of MobileRead Forums. It’s a great community, and being a member is a joy. But I thought I could make something out of how I covered the news for MobileRead, so I started this blog.”. Dunno about Calibre (HAYYYYTED IT *snap snap snap*), but Sigil will—if you know how. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is whether the Kindle reading app or any of its devices will honor anything you want it to do. The answer is no. ADE won’t honor much of anything more intricate than wraparound images and upside-down question marks. (Forget macrons, my dear Japanese client.) You’re at the mercy of what iBooks will allow you to do (and that’s another rant). The ereaders that can render your super-duper-pooper-scooper epub aren’t popular. So the bells and whistles that can be put in an epub, whether it’s going to iBooks or getting churned into a MOBI, are just *not worth the effort of producing*. Nate, to answer your question. Many of these “intricate Kindle features” are simply basic features of epub. The big thing here is breaking down chapters into separate HTML files. But if I recall Calibre can already do that as well — although it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to all the time. Calibre can export both to kindle and epub. As Mark Coker at Smashwords can attest, many authors would prefer to do all their work in MS Word — even if it means dealing with less than perfect results. At least half the ebooks published today don’t require fancy formatting (Kindle shorts, etc), and frankly all you’re doing in Kindle Create is manipulating the main elements (but not the style or formatting). One “risk” of using MS Word and this tool (other than the risk of having to duplicate your efforts to produce a comparable epub file, is that it’s hard to track changes between versions if you are editing/revising. What is different about this than what was already in place? I usually do upload a Word.docx file in KDP and it turns it into a.mobi. My table of contents is in the word file, and the section headers/chapters break and format correctly. When I set up my Word file I use section breaks and page breaks, and everything seems to fall into proper place during conversion. I’m excited by the fixed format PDF possibility, though. Will have to try that out. I usually have to use the Kid’s Book Creator to make my photography books for Kindle.
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