: Re: HTML Formatting for ebook I uploaded my short story on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) yesterday. All went well and I am excited, given this is my first attempt to publish anything! I did some

I've submitted books in Word .doc, docx, filtered HTML and ePub formats. As an ex website developer I know that Word makes a terrible mess of converting text to HTML - especially the older versions of it. I would NOT submit a document in HTML produced by MS WORD.
Amazon is quite happy to accept .doc or .docx files as the source but making the contents can be tricky.
My solution is to start with a Word .docx file. I use File > inspect to strip out all the comments, personal data, headers and footers then re-save the document. I then import that into the calibre ebook management program. That's an open source program (free). It allows me to edit the book's meta data and add 10 keywords (keyphrases really) Amazon allows only 7. I then convert the .docx file to ePub format. That's easy in calibre and takes care of the contents file. That ePub file is sent as the source document to Amazon.

EPub and MOBI/AZW3 files are actually a compressed version of HTML files. calibre (yes - it is spelled with a lower case 'c') does a better job of converting to HTML than Word does. You can get calibre at calibre-ebook.com/download

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