Operation Manual

184 Publishing and Sharing
Design tips and tricks
If you plan to create eBooks effortlessly there are several useful do's and
don'ts that you should bear in mind during eBook design.
When designing eBooks, do:
• Pre-plan your eBook's design in advance of publishing.
• Avoid using design templates; instead start from scratch.
• Keep your story contained within text frames.
• Use pre-supplied heading text styles in your story.
• Create a single TOC.
• Create a cover for your eBook as a picture (p. 187).
Conversely, don't:
• Place any object (picture, artistic, header/footer text, etc.)
outside the main text frame.
• Anchor floating objects to your text frame. Anchored inline
objects are acceptable.
• Create excessively long chapters (<300k is recommended).
For more help about optimizing Amazon Kindle publishing, see
the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines.
Publishing
Two approaches can be taken depending on which devices you intend to
publish for, i.e. to ePub or Kindle. Both publishing processes are similar,
except that they create different file formats (i.e., *.epub and *.mobi,
respectively). Kindle publishing additionally requires the KindleGen
program to be installed on your computer.