Walk the dream to reality · Ebook

From chapters to an EPUB

The same sample as a reflowable ebook for Kobo Writing Life.

Book: The Dragon Who Kept the List
By: I. Vale
House: Kobo Writing Life
Format: Reflowable EPUB

Cover art of The Dragon Who Kept the List

Follow the dotted road

8 stops on the WriterDesk

01 · House
Pick the shop: Kobo Writing Life
An ebook-only house offers Ebook and Read-aloud. Kobo's own line on the desk: leave the ISBN blank and Kobo can assign its own identifier.
Kobo Writing Life · Ebook
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02 · House
Reflowable, chapter 1 first
A novel is reflowable: the reader's device makes the page breaks and reading starts at chapter 1. A picture book would be fixed layout.
Reflowable
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03 · Matter
Front matter becomes navigation
The same front and back pages a print book uses turn into the EPUB's navigation document, so a reader can jump between them.
EPUB 3 navigation
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04 · Chapters
One section per chapter
Each chapter is its own section in the file, in the order on the desk. Move one earlier or later and the EPUB follows.
4 chapters · 4 parts
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05 · Cover
One front image, one description
Shops want a single JPEG, RGB, ideally 2560 × 1600, with no spine and no barcode. The store description is the text beside it.
2560 × 1600 · store description
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06 · Facts
Category and keywords
Fiction / Fantasy, and keywords a reader would actually type. Up to seven; Amazon keeps seven.
dragon, names, queen, list, loyalty
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07 · Check
The ebook lines
Format, store description, ebook layout and keywords, each marked Ready. Only a Needed line holds back the clean file.
All Ready
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08 · Files
Take the EPUB and handoff
A watermarked EPUB opens a Preview page first, free. The clean EPUB comes with the paid WriterCaddy plan, as many times as you need.
EPUB 3 · ONIX 3.0
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The finish
To Kobo Writing Life
Upload the clean EPUB, with the 2560 × 1600 cover JPEG beside it.