Here’s a minimalist sample for your-book.html: Welcome to Your book title, the crazy adventures Optional: Add a welcome blurb at the top of the page, before your first chapter.Change all the elements that contain your chapter titles, to include a page break element and an id attribute, like this:.Scroll to the bottom of the doc, and add the closing and tags:.Add an HTML tag directly after the tag, as shown in the example above.Add an HTML and element containing your title.Remove the heading level 1 element that contains the title of the doc: Remove this element containing your title.Optional, for better HTML semantics: Change all em> to i>.On the Mac, Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) worked for me.) (I ran into trouble when uploading my files to Amazon because the apostrophes, ellipses, etc, were using the default character encoding for my editor, which was UTF-8. Make sure the character encoding in your editor is set to something other than UTF-8.Open the HTML file in your favourite text editor.Save the result on your computer as an HTML file.I use the Chrome add-on GD2md-html, with its default settings for the HTML conversion. Convert the Google Docs content to HTML.In Google Docs, make sure all chapter titles are at heading level 2.Step 1: Create an HTML file containing the content of your book ( your-book.html) Here are my step-by-step notes, in the hope they’re useful to other people. Then I hand-craft the files for the table of contents and other metadata. I convert the content from my Google Docs file to HTML, using a Chrome add-on: GD2md-html. Why use the add-on instead of Google Docs’s own export to HTML functionality? Because I want a single, simple HTML file that contains just the content with minimal markup.
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Google Docs also has an offline capability, but I haven’t used it extensively.įor the conversion to Amazon Kindle format, I use straight HTML rather than a Word doc or other format.
That means I can access the content from any computer at any time, no matter where in the world I happen to be, provided I’m online. Overview of my writing and publication process Please be aware that these are just my own notes, and are not intended as any sort of official or fail-safe way of moving content to Amazon. It took me a while to get the publication process to work, so I’ve jotted down my notes in case they’re useful to others. The latest is Words Words Words: A Trilby Trench adventure. I’ve recently published a couple of books in Kindle format on Amazon.
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