Support for Indie Authors discussion

Couple more questions before I press the publish button. : )

1) Do I have to do the Table of Contents index for my book or is this something generated by the distributor - KDP, Smashwords, etc. - when I upload the book?
I looked at some blog posts about formatting but didn't see anything that was clear about this.

2) If I put a URL in my book, e.g. a link to my blog, does it get translated okay?

Thank you : )

Hi Ron. You will have to format your TOC. If you create a clickable TOC and bookmark it as such, Amazon will format it so that it comes up on the sidebar of the Kindle edition. URLs and hyperlinks will work in ebooks as long as the full address is there.

Hi Ron,

I publish mine using M'soft Word 2007 and KDP. Make your chapter titles be format Heading 1. Add a page near the beginning of you book titled Table of Contents and put the cursor underneath it. Then in Word under References tab choose Table of Contents and Insert Table of Contents then pick Heading 1 only with no page numbers. Then put the cursor at the top by the Table of Contents, go to Insert and choose Bookmarks and then type in toc. That should do it.

Thank you so much, Bob and Christina. I've done zero with Table of Contents. And thanks for the instruction, Bob. That sets me on the right path.

I "finished" my story a month ago, but all this formatting and other tweaking for publication is taking longer than I thought. Just a matter of learning the process, but there's a lot I didn't even think about.

thanks, again

Download Amazon's free guide to formatting for Kindle. It's written in simple steps and will tell you everything you need to know about adding a TOC, how to format paragraphs and spaces, etc. It will help and soon enough, you'll be able to format a book in your sleep.

Just wanted to add a followup to this...

I d/l Calibre, a free app that a seems especially handy for epublishing. The TOC function in Calibre did a great job of constructing my TOC. It was easy for me to use.

- r

Ron wrote: "Just wanted to add a followup to this...

I d/l Calibre, a free app that a seems especially handy for epublishing. The TOC function in Calibre did a great job of constructing my TOC. It was easy fo..."

Seconded, I've used it myself.