E-gregous Jan. 7/ 2021

So you've published your e-book and want to make a paperback out of it. With the first book in 2019 on Kindle, I did the opposite : the paperbook first and then transferred the file easily enough to their Kindle Create e-book program-- but still having to go through the entire MS to make some changes to the way the MS is presented on all screen(s) formats and also images. Remember that on a tablet , phone or kindle , the (screen) pages all run basically with no breaks (unless you format it yourself that way).

This time, with Book #2, due to the problem of no proofing of the paperback available , had to publish the e-book first . I thought however, that perhaps I might have missed an easy set-up of the paperback by just somehow transferring the e-book to a kindle program that would magically take the whole content and transform into paperback format without further ado. Unless I'm mistaken, that easy transformation doesn't exist. You still have to set up manually, the paperback for publishing . Sure you can take your pre- ebook MS file and slot it in to a Kindle pre-formated form-- after you've selected paper type, mirror margin trim, size, headings , separators etc etc, but then it's been my experience that

you 've got to go through the MS several times more for dropped sentences, Heading corrections, pagination , the odd inappropriate spacing etc etc .

So : don't expect to do any less work in formating your paperback as you've probably also had to do on the e-book. Kindle Create supplies a basic format that must be tweaked --often (I've found).