This one seems to be aimed at the indie author audience and will likely serve that audience well. It is one of a suite of Amazon’s ebook creation tools (Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, Kindle Textbook Creator, and Kindle Comic Creator). Via an innocuous tweet yesterday, #eprdctn was introduced to a new MOBI/KF8 creation tool called Kindle Create. Also a Certified High Performance Coach, Nina strives to help creative people Achieve More Inspired Results personally and professionally.Kindle Create: beautiful Kindle books with Enhanced Typesetting, automatic table of contents and templates. Nina also is an award winning blogger and journalist, international speaker and founder of National Nonfiction Writing Month, also known as the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge, and the Nonfiction Writers’ University. Some of her clients have sold 320,000+ copies of their books and been published by major publishing houses. ![]() She is a nonfiction book editor and doctor, proposal consultant, and an Author Coach and Trainer as well as a Book and Blog Coach. As a hybrid author, she also has published 17 books independently. She is the author of How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual, and Creative Visualization for Writers, all published by Writer’s Digest Books. Additionally, she helps her clients and readers achieve their potential, fulfill their purpose and make a positive and meaningful difference with their words. Nina Amir, the Inspiration to Creation Coach, inspires writers and bloggers to create published products and careers as authors. Although it has some automated functions, nothing works better than a manually created index supplemented by the software to compile the page references. I’ve tried using a couple of different options and settled on PDF Index Generator to create indexes for my nonfiction books, but this software program isn’t for the faint of heart. There’s software available to help authors index their own books, but indexing is an art. Can You Index Your Own Book?īased on the book’s content, indexing it can be a complex and time-consuming task. You also can break your content down into headings and sub-headings to make it easier for the reader to see the content structure. A quality index also directs a reader to related cross-referenced words and will indicate the primary place a subject is discussed vs. ![]() It seems to be a growing trend in self-published books to skip creating an index, but it’s an essential part of a nonfiction book.Īn index can include terms, names, events, and even your book’s primary themes. Nonfiction books without an index are my pet peeve. You may wonder about the usefulness of a dead index, but if your nonfiction book uses a lot of industry terms or hard to spell terminology, the dead index will at least help the reader to get the correct spelling for the words they’re typing into the search box. This non-hyperlinked index includes the indexed topics but no links to the page location. Readers can type a word into the search box to navigate the ebook’s content.īut if you’re creating an index for your paperback, you may as well include the “dead” version of your index in your ebook. ![]() If you’re only releasing your nonfiction book as an ebook, then it’s not essential to go to the time and expense of creating an index. But since we’re a long way off from every ereader being able to read this new ebook format and every publisher from creating books using ePUB3, you have a couple of options. The newer technology of ePUB3 formatting allows ebook indexes to link to a specific book location no matter how the reader has adjusted their settings. The content’s location will vary based on the reader’s settings. Readers can define the ebook’s settings (e.g., font size, font style, line height, and margin width), so there’s no way to attach a page number to an index listing.
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