Kindle Formatting (Udemy.com)
Formatting eBooks - How To Format For Kindle and ePub within Scrivener Compile
Created by: David James Ault
Last updated November 2020
What you will learn
- Learn how to compile professional looking eBooks within Scrivener
- Learn how to correctly format your book's front and back matter
- Learn how to create Children's Illustrated Books using Amazon's Kindle Kids Book Creator
- Learn how to format elegantly styled eBooks using Vellum
- Learn how to validate and check your eBooks on a variety of devices
How it compares
Against the other 173 rated Udemy courses in Marketing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 44% of them
- Reviews27#171 of 174 by number of reviews
- Length2.5 hoursshorter than 64% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2020earlier than 83% of them
Course Description
Nothing cries out amateur more for a self-published author than a badly formatted book. At its worst, bad formatting can stop the reader from finishing your ebook and may even result in bad reviews. Even ebooks with minor formatting mistakes can result in the reader being distracted from the world that you have lovingly created and jolt them back into reality, thus spoiling their reading experience.
In this course, you will learn how to give your readers the best reading experience possible by compiling professional looking eBooks within the writing tool, Scrivener. You will also learn how to correctly format the all-important front and back matter of your books in Scrivener, how to create childrens illustrated books in the Kindle Kids Book Creator and how to format elegantly styled eBooks within Vellum.
Finally, you will learn how to validate both ePub and Kindle formatted books and check that they render correctly on a number of different devices.
Save time, money and countless hassle formatting your ePub and Kindle eBooksTired of spending all that time and effort manually formatting your eBooks?
Would you like to know how I easily and effortlessly format my books into different formats for publishing on the various online eBook distributors?
You will get an over-the-shoulder, step-by-step guide to Scriveners powerful Compile feature, where you will learn how to correctly use the different compilation options available and create correctly formatted books in both the ePub and Mobi formats.
By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently format your ebooks so that they render correctly on different devices and ensure that your readers enjoy the perfect reading experience.
Who this course is for:
Self-published authors who want to save time and money formatting their eBooksAuthors, who are new to self-publishing, and are looking to publish their first eBook
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
27 Reviews
David James Ault
Having worked as a marketing manager in London during the nineties, where he also completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, David decided to leave the rat race in 2000, head east and forge a new career as an online marketer. It was during this time that he published his first book.
As a British ex-pat living in Slovakia, David has set up online businesses and written non-fiction books in a number of different niches, most notably freelance translating, ESL and all things Slovak. He also taught Business English to Slovak companies and private individuals and lectured at universities and other educational institutions, where he developed his passion for teaching.
In the last few years, from his mountain home in the heart of Europe, David has primarily focused on print on demand and self-publishing, during which time he has created over 5,000 designs and published over 1,000 books. In addition to this, David has taught online courses to over 50,000 students, mainly in the print on demand and self-publishing niches, and is currently half-way through writing his first series of YA fiction novels.
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Reviews
By Barbara Hall on 8/13/2020
too much duplicate content with your other ebook course
By Pedro J. Ramirez on 3/3/2019
Muy bien. Va paso a paso. Fcil de entender.
By Patricia Lambert on 3/22/2017
So far, so good.
By Pattie Barnett on 11/2/2016
As usual, David's delivery of "Formatting EBooks" course is excellent however I also took David's other course
"Scrivener - Unlock The Power Of Your Book Writing Software"
which I found most of it was the same information except after Lesson 5. The information about formatting and validating was new and valuable.
By Mark Warner on 10/27/2016
Very good explanation of formating process.
By Kz on 8/17/2016
The "class" seems disjointed. Sometimes one lecture will continue seemless to another lecture. Other times, there is a "hello" at the beginning of a lecture. The volume seems to change or perhaps it was microphone placement. I suspect the lectures in this course were not all made specifically for this course. The material is okay, not great if you are already using Scrivener.
I found this course to be mostly one big advertisement for the Instructor. What's worse is that I paid for the advertisement. Some advertising is fine, but this for me was too much.
By Michael Moriarty on 4/11/2016
This course is very useful and for me required a lot of start / stop / start again as I tried to emulate the instructions.
By SUPER DAVE on 3/25/2016
I am helping retired authors get their books upgraded to E-books. This course was very comprehensive and it will help me help others.
By Aniruddha Dey on 3/15/2016
Awsome Course. Easy to understand. Thank You So Much. Love This Course
By Dawn Jasper-Herndon on 3/10/2016
The course was informative and easy to follow.
By George Garrigues on 1/19/2016
Spacebardoesnotwork.
By Samuel Ault on 9/12/2015
I have been struggling to format my eBook for a while now, so this course has come along at the right time.
I have heard a lot said about the writing tool, Scrivener, but I did not realise you could format your books with it. David delivers a well structured course that gives step-by-step instructions which I was able to follow easily.
I also found the section on Front and Back matter to be a real eye opener and something that I am definitely going to incorporate into my book.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100










