HTML Book Description: How to Make Book Descriptions Great

About this video

Dale follows up his earlier HTML book description video with two free online tools for authors who cannot afford conversion software and do not want to learn code. He states he has no affiliation with either site. For Kindle/KDP, he directs viewers to Dave Chesson’s Kindlepreneur site: paste the description into the text box, highlight text and click buttons to apply formatting such as the largest font size and bold for a headline, avoid over-formatting, click ‘generate my code,’ copy the HTML, paste it into the KDP description box, and save — updates take about three to five business days on the product page, or appear at launch if used when first publishing. For CreateSpace, he directs viewers to a tool at success entrepreneur / colleagues’ site: choose start from scratch, paste the original description without the KDP HTML, format the same way, preview, generate and copy the code, then paste it into the CreateSpace description tab and save — the CreateSpace page updates immediately but Amazon may take one to six weeks to honor it. He warns KDP and CreateSpace accepted separate types of HTML at the time, and points learners to KDP’s supported HTML page.

Key takeaways

• You do not need paid software or coding knowledge — free converters can turn a plain description into Amazon HTML
• For KDP, use Kindlepreneur’s tool: format by highlighting and clicking, generate code, paste into KDP, and allow 3-5 business days to update
• For CreateSpace, use the separate converter, preview before generating code, and expect Amazon to take 1-6 weeks to honor it
• Keep KDP and CreateSpace HTML separate — they accepted different types of HTML formatting at the time of the video
• Use formatting sparingly — a little goes a long way in making a description readable rather than cluttered

Episode details: published July 24, 2017 · 4:26 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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