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Stores sell an ebook a reader can change the type size on, unless the book is a picture book and needs a fixed layout. We build that file, check the contents list, and look at the preview on a phone before the listing goes up.
The retail file
A novel, a memoir, and most nonfiction should reflow. The reader sets the type. Headings have to be real headings or they never enter the table of contents. Scene breaks have to survive a conversion. A row of empty paragraphs is not a scene break. It is a gap that will collapse or double, depending on the store.
A picture book or a heavily designed cookbook often needs fixed layout, which is a different file and a different set of stores that will accept it. Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, and Google Play do not share one preview. We check the one you are actually selling on. Front matter that runs long will eat the sample, so chapter one has to arrive while the buyer is still looking.
Order of the work
What the buyer meets
A clean file under a vague description still fails. We write the retail text from the book, and we keep the sample honest.
What we hand the store
The cover for an ebook is a front cover at the store size. It is not the paperback wrap.
Decisions
KDP can take an EPUB and convert it. If you also want Kindle Unlimited, the ebook has to stay exclusive. We will not enroll it as a default.
Apple, Kobo, Nook, Google, and the library channels need the ebook off KDP Select. An aggregator can carry several of those, or we go direct where you asked.
The ebook and the paperback should share series data and a description that does not contradict the page count. They still need their own identifiers.
House rule
If the only file is a PDF exported from Word, the job has not started.
Before upload
Amazon will assign an ASIN. Apple, Kobo, and a wide listing are cleaner with an ISBN you own, especially if you want one record across stores. We will say which case you are in before anyone buys a block of numbers they do not need.
Yes. Word is the manuscript. It is not the ebook. Styles get rebuilt, then we convert and read the preview.
You do. The file, the cover, and the listing text come back to you.
Send the manuscript
That is enough to know if the file is reflowable or fixed. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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