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Originally Posted by shalym
I'm not sure if this is the place for this discussion, but I have to ask...do you think that Amazon making it easier for authors is a bad thing?
Shari
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I'll answer this question WHEN KCreate actually makes it "easier" for authors. From what I've seen the same authors that already know how to actually use Word, and upload a file that will already work, at the KDP, to make a book, will be able to use KCreate, and those that treat it like a damned typewriter, won't be able to use KCreate, so: what, exactly, makes what easier?
We see files that have NEVER seen a Style. A heading. Files that have manually typed page numbers, footnotes, running heads. And yes, I've seen more than my fair share of files that have "enter" at the end of every. single. line. I've now quoted more than 5,000 books. You know how many of those, could have been uploaded at the KDP, and done "okay," just using Word? Not 100. Not one-hundred of them.
Those folks? KCreate won't help them any more than any of the available options do now. Maybe it will, as it develops...but I've spent the last few months helping authors with the KDP Print Beta, and you know how different that is, from Createspace? Pretty much Not. One. Iota.
Hitch