Amazon platform<\/a> in Paperback, e-book & Kindle Unlimited versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAdmittedly, there’s been times when I’ve quite literally pulled my hair out, trying to get a manuscript to upload to Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the issues come at the ‘Preview’ stage, when Amazon usually says it doesn’t like a font you’ve used. The fix is to replace it and re-save and re-upload the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it was with todays uploads.. that I’ve spent most of the day on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A good friend has been helping me with a more thorough ‘2nd pair of eyes’ on proof-reading, and spotted one or two grammatical errors that had previously sneaked through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shouldn’t be a problem to update the live manuscript – cover will still fit – same number of pages etc…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I write in Apple ‘Pages’, but Amazon doesn’t accept that file type so you have to either save to DOC (word) or PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now strange things happen to your formatting.. chapter titles suddenly appear on LH pages and some paragraphs break \/ split apart. Plus the contents section goes out of sync with the page numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I uploaded the ‘word’ doc version no problem, but the Amazon previewer found a font (Lucida Sans) it doesn’t support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I’m not used to the intricacies of Word, I had to Google how to replace all occasions of the font for something else. In this case Arial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Successfully completed, re-saved and uploaded to get the same error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I spent the last two hours searching for a hidden return or space that is in the Lucida font.. no joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve tried saving the document I know to be corrected as a PDF, back to Word etc. Still the same propblem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve tried deleting history for today.. no change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, I tried another upload of the Word. doc version and it mysteriously worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So perhaps there was nothing wrong with the files and the uploaded was being ‘flaky’ or over-subscribed at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, all sorted now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moral is to keep trying your manuscript upload, if you’re sure you’ve attended to all the previewer errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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