Converting your word doc to a proper e-book format is one of the most important things you can do before publishing to Kindle or any other e-book reader. There's nothing worse than someone buying your book and then seeing poor formatting, missing table of contents or badly formatted images. If someone took the time to buy your book and spend their hard-earned money on an author they probably have never heard of before, you owe it to them and yourself to give them the best damn book you can. Do yourself and your readers a favor and take the time to ensure your book is formatted correctly. In the coming months, I'm going to create a series of e-book conversion tutorials on how to convert a word document to an e-book format that can be used to publish to the Kindle, Nook, Smashwords or any other e-reader currently available.
The following sites have provided a huge amount of imformation for the articles – the community on KDP, http://www.cjs-easy-as-pie.com and http://guidohenkel.com/2011/01/take-pride-in-your-ebook-formatting-part-vii - I freely acknowledge that these sites are the masters of e-book formatting and I encourage you to visit them. I hope this helps some people to produce a great kindle e-book that your users will enjoy reading with ease.
