It is why you need to change your thinking from merely producing a Word document to producing an ebook file.Ī well-formatted ebook file will appear exactly the same in any ebook format, including Kindle, RTF, and epub files. When publishing with Smashwords, your ebook file needs to be suitable for nine different ebook formats, not just one. You can avoid all of these problems by formatting your ebook correctly before you start uploading and publishing. It is extremely annoying when fonts, line spacing, and paragraph formatting change, and page breaks create unwanted blank pages, or the table of contents is incorrect. I have read many Kindle ebooks that have suffered from this problem. The problem with this is that any poor formatting that is inherent in your document will affect the quality of your ebook. Kindle converts your file to its proprietary ebook format, and as long as your text fits on the screen, you will pass. For authors who are used to using Kindle Direct Publishing, it often comes as a surprise that the file you uploaded to KDP is unsuitable for other formats.
