![]() In 2022, booksellers aren’t competing just for book sales – we’re competing for readers’ attention. However, another big change that we’ve seen over the past ten years is the proliferation of content and the explosion of available entertainment. It’s easier than ever before for authors to publish their books and reach a global audience of readers. Over the past ten years, we’ve seen indie publishing soar to new heights, with thousands of books published every year and Kobo Writing Life titles making up 25% of Kobo’s English language eBook sales. Since the launch of Kobo Writing Life in the summer of 2012, a lot has changed in the publishing landscape. If she’s not reading, you can find her teaching fitness classes, or complaining bitterly about Canadian winters. She grew up in Edinburgh and studied Italian and Spanish at the University of St Andrews, before moving to Toronto. She works directly with indie authors to help them sell eBooks and audiobooks worldwide. Joni Di Placido is the Author Relations Manager at Kobo Writing Life, and co-hosts the Kobo Writing Life podcast. I’ve not used InDesign but would guess that it will be more useful for the print book rather than the e-book.Joni Di Placido, Author Relations Manager Readers can change the font size on e-readers and therefore what one reader sees after 10 page turns will be a completely different page to what another reader might see. There are no page numbers and the only ‘forced’ page breaks are at the end of chapters. Remember that with an e-book you don’t design each page, the whole book is simply a long block of free-flowing text. Where self-published e-books can let themselves down (& I’m probably guilty of this too!) is the book cover – it’s very easy to spot self-published book covers. I have no experience of including pictures, diagrams etc. I’m only talking about text-only novels/short story collections/non-fiction. ![]() However, I think that self-published Kindle books look just as good as Kindle books from ‘proper’ publishers as long as proper attention has been paid to proof-reading and checking the format in the Kindle previewer prior to publication. I’ve no experience of creating a print book, Hilary, so I can’t comment on that, also I’m not up to speed on Kobo yet. Next, I have to work out how everything works on the Kobo site … Having said that, if anyone downloads the Kobo version and finds the formatting isn’t up to scratch – please let me know! I used the same manuscript that I’d formatted for Kindle according to the instructions in Mark Coker’s Smashwords Style Guide and, once I’d discovered Calibre, had no further problems. This all sounds very complicated and technical – but it’s not! There is a guide available on the Kobo website full of tips about how to format your Word document to ensure the best results. epub file to Kobo and the result looked much better. So, I downloaded the free conversion software Calibre and converted my. ![]() ![]() docx but when I checked the finished product using the Kobo previewer (which isn’t as good as the Kindle one) the line spacing seemed very wide. Kobo accepts manuscripts in a variety of formats, including Microsoft Word. I didn’t want to do this and went round in circles until I discovered that the only way to keep my Kobo and Facebook accounts separate was to login to Kobo initially with my Facebook account and then, within the Kobo ‘My Account’ page, un-link Facebook from my Kobo account. If the email address entered into Kobo is registered to a Facebook account then Kobo requires you to login with your Facebook credentials. The hardest part was creating a Kobo login ID to allow me to start the process. So, how did I find the Kobo publishing process? This collection is my Kindle ‘best seller’ and hasn’t been enrolled in KDP Select for a long time meaning I’m free to publish it elsewhere. Old Friends – 13 Coffee Break Stories is now available on Kobo as well as Amazon Kindle. This week I’ve done something I’ve been meaning to do for months – I’ve finally branched out to another e-book platform.
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