22 Awesome Tips on Formatting Ebooks

• Will you take advantage of ebook’s opportunity for innovative storytelling, content presentation?
• Consider differences between paper, ebooks
• Basic guidelines for self-publishing ebooks
• Four main ways exist to present your ebook
• Getting started with formatting your ebook
• Know parts of an ebook when creating one 
• Select different fonts for paperback, ebook 
• How to format line spacing for an ebook
• Use consistent quotation mark, apostrophe style
• Use consistent style on chapter, header titles
• Avoid introducing wrong styles into your text
• If using MS Word, don’t place tabs in your ebooks 
• Skip headers, footers, page numbers in ebook
• How to create bulleted lists in ebooks 
• How to format drop caps into your ebook
• Consider adding artwork to interior of your book
• Great tips for placing photos in your ebook
• How to link your ebook’s table of contents
• How to create page breaks in your ebook 
• Ask at end of your book for a review 
• Add social sharing links to your ebook 
• Consider exercising ‘nuclear option’ on ebook
• Do Kindle DP pre-orders help or hinder sales?
• Sell more ebooks by writing shorter ones 
• Guidelines for creating an ebook cover 
• DRM: To enable or not to enable
• How to write an author’s bio 
• Pay attention to your author’s bio pic 
• What is a “text-to-speech” ebook? 
• What is the X-Ray function in an ebook? 
• Pros and cons of using Smashwords for ebooks 
• Common questions about publishing ebooks
• BONUS: “We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.” – Somerset Maugham