I had been told, or read somewhere, to save my Word file as an .html to upload to KDP (Kindle), but when I read through their help files I saw they accepted .doc and .docx files, and so I uploaded my Word.doc file. Not a good idea, at least for me. For whatever reason all my paragraphs, formatted in a Word Style with a first line indent, appeared as block paragraphs.
Fortunately the upload to Kindle is very quick, and so I tried again with the same result. Yes I know the definition of insanity... and in my defence I only repeated it once.
Anyway lesson learned I saved my manuscript as an .html file and uploaded it. Perfect first line indents!
Kindle doesn’t do the free downloads that Smashwords does, but once you've uploaded your file successfully a button appears asking if you want to preview your book. The correct answer is yes, you really do want to do this. A virtual Kindle appears and you can click through your book checking it is as perfect as it should be.
I formatted Lives Interrupted for both Kindle and Smashwords over the same weekend, and opened both the accounts at that time. As I've mentioned in a recent post I didn't find it that difficult, and a lot simpler than formatting the print version!
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