Author names are complex, especially across cultures, see this note for some of the complexities. The first thing to understand is that books and authors are separate entities in calibre. A book can have more than one author, and an author can have more than one book.
You can manage the authors of a book by the edit metadata dialog. You can manage individual authors by right clicking on the author in the Tag browser on the left of the main calibre window and selecting Manage authors. Using this dialog you can change the name of an author and also how that name is sorted. This will automatically change the name of the author in all the books of that author.
When a new author is added to calibre this happens whenever a book by a new author is added , calibre automatically computes a sort string for both the book and the author.
Authors in the Tag browser are sorted by the sort value for the authors. Remember that this is different from the Author sort field for a book. By default, this sort algorithm assumes that the author name is in First name Last name format and generates a Last name, First name sort value. You can force calibre to recalculate the author sort values for every author by right clicking on any author and selecting Manage authors , then pushing the Recalculate all author sort values button.
You can force calibre to recalculate the author sort values for all books by using the bulk metadata edit dialog select all books and click edit metadata, check the Automatically set author sort checkbox, then press OK. When recalculating the author sort values for books, calibre uses the author sort values for each individual author.
This is useful when dealing with names that calibre will not get right, such as complex multi-part names like Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra or when dealing with Asian names like Sun Tzu. With all this flexibility, it is possible to have calibre manage your author names however you like.
For example, one common request is to have calibre display author names LN, FN. To do this, and if the note below does not apply to you, then:. After you have changed all the authors, press the Recalculate all author sort values button. Press OK, at which point calibre will change the authors in all your books. This can take a while. Open the Manage authors dialog.
Press the copy all author sort values to author button. Check through the authors to be sure you are happy. You can still press Cancel to abandon the changes. Once you press OK, there is no undo. Suppose your book collection is nicely sorted into folders with the following scheme:. Now this makes it very easy to find for example all science fiction books by Isaac Asimov in the Foundation series.
But suppose you want to find all unread science fiction books. In calibre, you would instead use tags to mark genre and read status and then just use a simple search query like tag:scifi and not tag:read. To those of you that claim that you need access to the filesystem, so that you can have access to your books over the network, calibre has an excellent Content server that gives you access to your calibre library over the net.
If you are worried that someday calibre will cease to be developed, leaving all your books marooned in its folder structure, explore the powerful Save to disk feature in calibre that lets you export all your files into a folder structure of arbitrary complexity based on their metadata. Finally, the reason there are numbers at the end of every title folder, is for robustness.
That number is the id number of the book record in the calibre database. The presence of the number allows you to have multiple records with the same title and author names. It is also part of what allows calibre to magically regenerate the database with all metadata if the database file gets corrupted.
Look elsewhere for your book cataloguing needs. Kindly do not contact us in an attempt to get us to change this. In addition, you can add any columns you like. Watch the tutorial UI Power tips to learn how to create your own columns, or read this blog post. In the add column dialog use the Quick create links to easily create columns to show the book ISBN or formats.
You can use the powerful calibre template language to do much more with columns. For more details, see The calibre template language. You can export all calibre data books, settings and plugins and then import it on another computer.
Note that if there is currently a device connected, this menu option will not be available — so, disconnect any connected devices. Then click the button labelled Export all your calibre data. You will see a list of all your calibre libraries. Click OK and choose an empty folder somewhere on your computer. The exported data will be saved in this folder. Simply copy this folder to your new computer and follow the instructions below to import the data.
Install calibre on your new computer and run through the Welcome wizard , it does not matter what you do there, as you will be importing your old settings in the next step. You will now have an empty calibre, with just the Getting Started guide in your library.
Then click the button labelled Import previously exported data. Select the folder with the exported data that you copied over earlier. You will now have a list of libraries you can import. Go through the list one by one, and select the new location for each library a location is just an empty folder somewhere on your computer.
Click OK. After the import completes, calibre will restart, with all your old libraries, settings and calibre plugins.
Simply copy the calibre library folder from the old to the new computer. You can find out what the library folder is by clicking the calibre icon in the toolbar.
Now on the new computer, start calibre for the first time. It will run the Welcome wizard asking you for the location of the calibre library. Point it to the previously copied folder. In that case, right-click the calibre icon in the toolbar and point it to the newly copied folder. You will now have two calibre libraries on your computer and you can switch between them by clicking the calibre icon on the toolbar. Transferring your library in this manner preserver all your metadata, tags, custom columns, etc.
In order to understand why that happened, you have to understand what a calibre library is. At the most basic level, a calibre library is just a folder. Inside the calibre library folder, at the top level, you will see a file called metadata. The list of books that calibre displays is created by reading the contents of this metadata. Your calibre library folder changed its location.
This can happen if it was on an external disk and the drive letter for that disk changed. Or if you accidentally moved the folder. In this case, calibre cannot find its library and so starts up with an empty library instead. Click the little blue icon to select the new location of your calibre library and click OK. Your metadata. In this case, you can ask calibre to rebuild the metadata.
A filesystem is a complex beast. Most network filesystems lack various filesystem features that calibre uses. Additionally, calibre is a single user application, if you accidentally run two copies of calibre on the same networked library, bad things will happen.
Finally, different OSes impose different limitations on filesystems, so if you share your networked drive across OSes, once again, bad things will happen. Consider using the calibre Content server to make your books available on other computers. Run calibre on a single computer and access it via the Content server or a Remote Desktop solution. If you must share the actual library, use a file syncing tool like DropBox or rsync instead of a networked drive.
If you are using a file-syncing tool it is essential that you make sure that both calibre and the file syncing tool do not try to access the calibre library at the same time. In other words, do not run the file syncing tool and calibre at the same time. In particular, be aware that Google Drive is incompatible with calibre, if you put your calibre library in Google Drive, you will suffer data loss.
See this thread for details. I want calibre to download news from my favorite news website. Why does calibre show only some of my fonts on macOS? The calibre E-book viewer and Edit book tools do not work on Windows? Using the viewer or doing any conversions results in a permission denied error on Windows. I downloaded the installer, but it is not working? How do I backup calibre? Can I have the comment metadata show up on my reader? I want some feature added to calibre.
What can I do? How is calibre licensed? How do I run calibre from my USB stick? How do I run parts of calibre like news download and the Content server on my own Linux server? If you are reasonably proficient with computers, you can teach calibre to download news from any website of your choosing. To learn how to do this see Adding your favorite news website.
Otherwise, you can request a particular news site by posting in the calibre Recipes forum. E-book files support embedding only TrueType and OpenType. Most fonts on macOS systems are in. You can obtain many such fonts on the web. If you're a Smashwords veteran, click to the specific area that interests you. What is Smashwords? Smashwords is a global ebook distributor serving authors, publishers, readers and major ebook retailers.
Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, personal memoirs, poetry chapbooks, short and long-form fiction, and non-fiction. If you've written it, we want to help you share it and sell it! What does Smashwords offer readers? Smashwords offers book lovers an opportunity to discover thousands of independently published ebooks. We offer affordably priced ebooks for immediate sampling, purchase and download. Most Smashwords books are readable on any e-reading device.
One purchase and you gain access to multiple formats. What does Smashwords offer authors? Over , authors around the world collectively publish and distribute over , ebooks with Smashwords. Smashwords makes it fast, free and easy to publish and distribute your ebook to the world's largest ebook retailers and mobile phone apps. You'll find more information in your Dashboard's Channel Manager.
What does Smashwords offer publishers? Smashwords is the ebook publishing and distribution platform for hundreds of small, professional independent publishers. Publishers receive a free co-branded ebook store at Smashwords, from which they can list an unlimited number of authors and their authors' books within the publisher's store. The author pages and book pages are all cross linked and connected back to the Publisher account, offering your readers greater serendipitous discovery of all your titles.
As one of the leading ebook distributors, Smashwords can distribute your books to most of the major ebook retailers. Learn more about whether the free Publisher upgrade is right for you by reading the Publisher Account documentation. What does Smashwords offer literary agents? Literary agents can upload, distribute and centrally manage the indie ebooks of their clients.
Literary agents receive the same powerful publishing, metadata management and aggregated sales reporting tools Smashwords offers publishers, yet agents are designated as agents, not publishers. For additional information on how agents can better serve their clients by utilizing Smashwords ebook distribution services, see The Literary Agent's Indie Ebook Roadmap blog post and presentation. What does Smashwords offer retailers? Smashwords is the world's largest distributor by title count of indie ebooks from self-published authors and small presses.
We enable our retail partners to efficiently ingest, manage and sell over , original ebooks, including many New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. All Smashwords ebooks are vetted for quality formatting and legal content. What are ebooks? Once you purchase a book on Smashwords, you can read it any way you like, and you can even print it out on your home computer if that's what you prefer. I signed up but haven't received my account activation email.
What do I do next? Usually within five minutes of registering, you will receive an account activation email. Click on the hyperlink in the email to complete your registration.
If you don't receive the email within 10 minutes, most likely your email program or email provider has misidentified the email as spam. Look in your spam box. The second most common reason you won't receive the email is that you gave us the wrong email address, in which case you should re-register.
Please configure your email so all email coming from Smashwords. I'm trying to re-register, but the system tells me my email address is already taken? This means you already successfully completed your registration by clicking the account activation hyperlink we emailed to you. All you need to do now is sign in with your email address and password.
If you forgot your password, click the "forgot password? What is the Adult Filter? The Adult Filter allows users of the Smashwords web site to partially obscure books that are labeled as "Adult. You'll also find the option at the bottom of the home page's search results. Even if the Adult Filter is on, if you search for Adult content, you can find it.
Experiment with different settings and choose the setting that best matches your reading preference. What are the advantages of distributing to retailers via Smashwords as opposed to uploading direct to them? The primary advantage of distributing through Smashwords is that Smashwords helps authors and publishers spend more time writing and less time fussing with the upload, monitoring and maintenance of multiple platforms.
Here are twelve reasons why over , authors and publishers distribute with Smashwords:. How do I publish with Smashwords? Simply sign up for an account if you haven't already it's free. We'll send you a confirmation email, with a hyperlink you'll click to activate your account. The email will also provide you next steps, the first of which is to read the Smashwords Style Guide for instructions on how to format your manuscript prior to upload. Once your manuscript is formatted, and you have a professional cover image prepared, you click "Publish" and follow the steps.
More tips follow below in the next sections What is the origin of the name, "Smashwords"? It's a manufactured name. It captures in the yin and yang the positive and the negative, both interlinked of the writing process. It represents the angst that many writers experience during the creative process of writing, revising and editing.
As any writer will tell you, the writing process can be painful, yet also ecstatically joyous. And finally, after the writer navigates the writing process and releases their finished work, it means "success," such as "Smash hit" or the phrase, "Absolutely Smashing!
Return to Top. What are the benefits of registering for an account? When you register for a free account, we create for you a private, permanent online library where you can conveniently access your purchased books in any of the many available ebook formats. How do I sample a book? We offer two online readers that allow you to sample books, and we also allow you to download book samples in various ebook formats.
The author determines what percentage of the book is available for sample. If you like the sample, please support the author and purchase the book. How do I purchase a book? First, register for a free account. This allows us to create a permanent online library where you can access your purchased books in any format. At the top right of every book page is a shopping cart logo. Simply click on it to purchase the book and then enter your credit card information and follow the simple instructions.
How do I access my shopping cart? When you purchase a book, you click the shopping cart icon on the upper right side of the page and it takes you to your shopping cart. How do I access a book I purchased? After you purchase a book, you'll receive an email confirming your purchase.
Click on the Library link at the top of the screen, and scroll down to Purchased Books. Click on the book you want to read.
This takes you to the book's page, where you can scroll down and download the ebook format that works best for you, or you can read online using the HTML or Javascript reader. Go to the Apple App store and download the free Apple Books app if it's not already preinstalled on your device. Once installed, use the Safari browser from your device to navigate to Smashwords. After you purchase a book, click to your Library.
Next, click to the book you want to read, then scroll down the book's book page to download your book as an. Click that. It'll open in your Apple Books app and place the book in your Apple Books library.
Alternatively, you can also try the free BlueFire reader, also in the App store. If you have other favorite e-reading apps installed, it may also give you the option to open the books in your other e-reading apps as well. How can I read a Smashwords ebook on my desktop or laptop? It's easy to read ebooks on your desktop or laptop computer. For a higher-quality reading experience, download an e-reading application.
An e-reading application, also called an "e-reading app," is software designed for reading ebooks. Several of the available formats at Smashwords are easily read on a personal computer or tablet.
How to read the most common formats:. In addition to being a great e-reading app for desktop computers, Adobe Digital Editions is useful for Smashwords authors who want to inspect their epub files.
For Android devices, download Aldiko, a free e-reading app. Most computers come pre-installed with Adobe Acrobat if not, click here to download it for free. After you install one of the above apps, simply return to your Smashwords Library, click to the book you want to download, then click to download the appropriate file format.
Your web browser should ask you if you want to use the app to read immediately, or if you want to download the book to your computer if you download to your computer, the Desktop is a good location to drop the file so you can find it. Please note there are many third party e-reading software applications, and Smashwords cannot provide you customer support on how to install or use them.
Most have online help files. How do I read books on my Android device? Download the Aldiko app from the Google Play store. Then use your web browser to navigate to the Smashwords store at www. I enjoy reading samples on my Aldiko reader on Android, but I'm getting an error on the purchased book Before you download the full purchased version, try deleting the partial sample from your Aldiko reader. This usually solves the problem. How do I download books to my Kindle or Kindle Fire?
You'll find links to all your purchased books in your Smashwords Library. There are two options for loading Smashwords ebook content to your Kindle or Kindle Fire:. USB Connection. Plug your Kindle into the USB slot small rectangular slot of your computer using the cable that came with your Kindle the Kindle Fire doesn't come standard with the USB cable, so you'll need to obtain the cable separately, or, use the email option described in 2 below.
When you attach your Kindle to your computer via the USB cable, it makes your Kindle appear as a hard drive on your computer. After you purchase the book, from the book's book page click to download the "Kindle". MOBI format. Next, navigate to where you see the Kindle show up as a hard drive on your computer. Next, just drop the book's file it should end in file name of.
Then disconnect the Kindle from your computer and the book will be ready to read. If you already downloaded the. Amazon's support page provides complete details.
For Kindle Fire only, Click here for how to set up your free Kindle email address, and how to load ebooks or email ebooks to your Kindle Fire using either the email or USB cable method. How do I download books to my Kindle from my Mac? First, go to your web browser's Preferences and click Downloads. Make sure to click on the box that directs your browser to ask you where you want to save downloads. If you don't do this first step, your files may go to your Downloads folder, and then it will be difficult to move them to your Kindle.
Next, click to your Smashwords Library to find the link for your purchased book. Then click to download the. MOBI file. When your browser asks where you want to save the file, navigate to your Kindle's "Documents" folder, and drop the file there. After a few seconds, unplug your Kindle's USB cable and you're ready to read.
How do I add an ebook to my Kindle App on Android? Download the. Plug your Android device via USB into your computer. On your Android device set it to 'USB storage' this may be a pop up query, but you may have to activate it from your device settings. Eject or dismount your phone safely from the computer before disconnecting the cable. I tried to download a MOBI book to my Kindle with the instructions above, but it's not showing First, make sure you're placing the file into the Kindle's "Documents" folder.
In some situations, if you power down the Kindle and restart it, the file transfer will work. How do I download books to the Sony Reader? Sony is no longer an ebook retailer, yet many readers continue to use the Sony Reader to read ebooks. Here's the step-by-step: 1. You'll know the Sony Reader is connected when you see the Reader Library software pop up on your screen. Go to your web browser, and click to the Smashwords Library where you can click to the book page for the book you want to download.
Scroll down the page to the table of download options. Click to download the EPUB version. Your browser should pop up a window asking if you want to open the file with the Reader software, or if you want to save the file. Select the save option, which will allow you to download it. This is where you'll save the file.
After you save the file there, wait about 30 seconds and then you can unplug the Reader from the USB cable and your book is ready to read. For the Nook, just attach the Nook to your personal computer via the USB cable makes it appear as a hard drive , and then download your books directly to your Nook's My Documents folder. How do I download books to my Kobo Reader? Connect your Kobo Reader to your computer using the USB cable and then drag and drop books to add them to your library.
In another window, go to the location of your ebooks on your computer and drag and drop them into the Kobo library window. These instructions are excerpted from Kobo's online documentation. If you have better instructions, please contact us. Do I get charged for reading a sample? No, samples are free. Are books returnable if I don't like them? All sales are final. This is why most authors allow you to sample much of their book for free so you can try before you buy.
Can I share my book with friends? Smashwords books are licensed for your personal reading enjoyment only, so you are not legally allowed to copy, share, or email the book to others, and you are not allowed to resell or distribute the book to others. Smashwords authors are trusting you to honor their copyright and hard work, so please do not breach their trust in you.
However, most authors offer generous samples of their books, so if you want to share a legal sample of the book, simply email your friends the hyperlink to the book page of the book, or use one of the social networking links to share a link of the book with friends on Facebook, Twitter and other sites. How do I review a book? Anyone who has purchased a Smashwords book is able to review it by clicking back to the book page. Below the different file format options is a link where you can review the book.
Remember to select a star rating as well. Once you review a book, a link to your profile page appears in your review, and your review also appears on your personal profile page. If a book is free, anyone can review it. If you do not see the review link, it means you haven't purchased the book yet.
Authors are not able to review their own books. Can I publish book excerpts on my blog? Bloggers can excerpt a small portion of an author's book for review purposes. For further information on excerpts and re-distribution, see the Smashwords Terms of Service. Is it safe to enter my credit card online? When you purchase through Smashwords, we create a secure communications connection between your web browser and our payment processing provider, PayPal.
For your security, Smashwords does not store your credit card information after your purchase. Separate from Smashwords, it is recommended as a general safe computing practice that you maintain current security software on your computer.
Good free anti-virus applications include Avast! I'm the author, and although I set a sampling rate, the entire book appears downloadable As the author of book, you're able to access the book as if you purchased it. If you log out of your account, then visit your book page, you'll see the sampling rates are enforced for your customers. Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, has created a series of comprehensive online video workshops.
These five videos comprising over 8 hours of instructional material will help you learn to publish like a pro. It's like attending an all-day digital publishing seminar for free! Click below to access each video individually at YouTube:. How do I publish on Smashwords? First, register for a Smashwords account it's free and then carefully study and implement the Smashwords Style Guide for formatting requirements.
Once you're confident the book is formatted to the Style Guide, click "Publish" and follow the simple instructions. You will upload your manuscript or finished work in Microsoft Word's. If you're using Microsoft Word, save your finished manuscript as a. If you're using a different word processor such as Open Office , be sure when you save the document, you select "save as: file type: Microsoft Word.
Is your publishing agreement exclusive? It's non-exclusive, so you maintain all rights to your work and have the freedom to publish anywhere else you like. Why can't I find any information about what Smashwords costs? Because we're free! We work on commission. We don't charge for our ebook publishing, conversion and distribution services, and we don't sell publishing packages.
Who can publish on Smashwords? If you're the original author and you control the digital rights to the book, or if you're the exclusive digital publisher, you can publish and distribute the work with Smashwords.
Your work must be original, written by you or an author to which you have exclusive rights to publish. See our Terms of Service for more information. What can I publish? Smashwords is for finished, complete and original written works only no drafts, works-in-progress or partial works.
It's great for short and long form fiction, personal memoirs, essays, poetry, screenplays or anything else you can write in a word processor. See our Terms of Service for additional content guidelines. In Step 3 on the Publish page, it's asking me if my book contains adult content.
What's the definition? If your book contains language, situations or images that are inappropriate for children under 18 years of age, you can tag your book as having adult content. This voluntary label helps us protect minors from viewing inappropriate material. Books labeled as adult will not appear in Smashwords site search results if the customer or web site visitor has activated the Adult Filter. In the future, this label will also help our retail partners keep your book out of any kid-centric areas of their stores while maintaining full listings elsewhere in their store.
If you tagged your book as adult at the time of your upload, but later decided it's not truly adult by the definition here, you can click to Dashboard: Settings and remove the label.
I uploaded my book direct on Amazon or some other retailer. Can I still work with Smashwords? After you publish, click to your Dashboard's Channel Manager and opt out of any Smashwords retail partners you're already reaching direct or through another distributor.
This will prevent us from double-distributing your work. How do I choose between Amazon and Smashwords? This is a common question, and the answer is, "You should work with both of us at the same time! The more stores that carry your book, the greater your opportunity to reach readers. Amazon only reaches ebook readers in about 14 countries, whereas Apple Books reaches 51 countries and dominates the Australian ebook market , Kobo reaches about countries and the Smashwords store reaches almost countries.
I heard Amazon requires exclusivity. Is this true? No, it's not true but this is a common misperception, and it's a misperception Amazon does little to clarify.
Amazon offers two ebook self-publishing options. Exclusivity is dangerous and risky. It's like putting all your retirement savings in a single Internet stock. Although there's a chance it works for you, there's also a good chance you cause long term harm to your career.
It's much safer and sensible for you to diversify your portfolio of retail distribution. Some authors are drawn to KDP Select because they see it as their fast track to success.
The truth of the matter is that for most authors, there's no shortcut. To make it as a successful author, it can take years. Each of the major retailers reaches millions of readers that can't be reached anywhere else. Authors who make their books exclusive to Amazon will have a much more difficult time breaking out at other retailers.
Much of the confusion about whether Amazon requires exclusivity or not arises from the fact that Amazon has designed their KDP platform to make it look like your account setup is incomplete unless you enroll in KDP Select. At every step of the upload process they prompt you to enroll in KDP Select.
If you enroll in KDP Select, you must commit to make your book exclusive to them for at least three months. The enrollment automatically renews unless you opt back out. Authors who enroll in KDP Select are taking a gamble, and they'll miss out on the broader global distribution enabled by Smashwords and its retail and library partners.
KDP Select is also like quicksand. Once you step into it, it's tough to get out. It destroys your readership at other retailers, and limits your platform-building.
It makes your earnings entirely dependent upon Amazon. Who cannot publish on Smashwords? Do not upload content or books that appear elsewhere on the Internet authored by people other than yourself or by other pen names.
If we do a query on Google of a random text strings in your book and yes, we do this to test the originality of your work , and we discover the same content under other author names, or associated with private label article also called " Private Label Rights or PLR" or ebook licensing systems, your account will be closed without warning and all earnings will be forfeited, per the Terms of Service.
We have a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism, copyright infringement, underage erotica erotica featuring children under the age of 18 and PLR. Where will my book be sold? As an ebook publishing and distribution platform, Smashwords will distribute your books via multiple online channels, including but not limited to the Smashwords.
See the Distribution section below for more information on how Smashwords distributes books, or visit our Distribution Information page.
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You can deregister a device from your Amazon account if you no longer want to use it to purchase apps or in-app items. To deregister a device: From the Amazon website, go. Please let me know if there is still any issue. Once you re-register on any device even the one you deregistered. You books will be there.
Just remember to Sync. Many Fire owner owners have multiple Fires registered to their account and are reporting that it is the newer devices that are de-registering while the older ones are not.
Some customers are also having a problem getting the devices to re-register when they try to correct the problem. What will happens when you deregister a Kindle is all existing content on the device will be erased and the new owner or user will need to be re-download the contents. I am reading multiple reports on the Amazon forums that some people are having problems with their Fire tablets somehow spontaneously deregistering from their accounts.
Members are reporting that all their books, personal photos, documents and emails are being wiped off the devices.. Many of the reports seem to involve the Fire HD 8. And yes it will also work if you reset it to factory defaults but then you will also have to re-enter your network settings and any other settings changes as well as re-register it.
The only. On my Paperwhite, I can download books from one account and switch to another, and the book purchased with the original account remain despite the kindle being registered to a new account. After deregistering, you can register your Kindle to another Amazon Account. Are you sure you want to deregister? Why you may wish to deregister your device. There are a couple of reasons why you may wish to deregister your Kindle device; You have been encountering problems with. Once you reconnect to your home wifi network, then re-register the kindle to your amazon account, all of your books should automatically reload to the kindle.
Ifthe message above indicates that a different book has been submitted, you are required to submit the new content as a new book. The existing registration is taken to continue until the application for renewal has been decided. You can renew items in several ways: either online by accessing your library account, or in person.
If you wish to continue with the order, you would have to enter a new one, which you could elect to do as GTC again. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Had a Gen 4 still running on version 4. I have version 4. I want to give my kindle to a friend so I have to deregister it but want to keep the books already on it, how do I do that?
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Thanks a lot of Seven Layers. Best tutorial on deregistering a kindle device. Best voice over, best script, best diction. To the point and short. If you sideload your book, be aware that the person you shared it with can copy it and send it to others. Similarly, if you want to give out promotional eBooks after your book is published, sideloading allows you to send it to people directly, instead of sending them to the Amazon store. Remember, though: you still need some people to download your book on the Amazon store so you can keep up your sales rank and verified reviews.
At this point, you may be wondering: with these limitations, why do we still suggest using ePub as your default format? You can preview your book across every platform Kindle reader, Android app, iPhone app, etc.
You want your book to look as professional as possible. Errors are especially common if you have any special formatting in your book.
If there are any issues, make the corrections you need. Kindle Previewer is a free desktop application available for both Windows and Mac. You can download it here. Scroll down until you see the orange download buttons.
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