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Random, nonsensical HTML requirements: I could actually write a rant here that would fill a book on its own. There are three problems I ran into with KDP HTML, and they’re all grave: That leaves us with HTML here then, of course, a web developer I’d take matters into my own hands. I don’t want to make this another negative for Docs nor KDP but suffice it to say that it blew the secret desire that I could write a Docs doc and, voilà, it worked in KDP (feature request, Docs team?). That includes using Google Docs’ formatting defaults. Though KDP accepts HTML, Word, MOBI, EPUB, RTF, PDF, and plain text, none of the respective formats that a Google Docs document can be converted into (HTML, Word, RTF, PDF, and plain text) would display correctly. I’m generally fond of KDP, but I like to share some things to watch out for and, please, for Amazon to fix. It comes with its own technical standards and peculiarities. KDP is Amazon’s platform to publish and sell books. I’ve shared the conclusion: If you plan to write a book with Docs do it for a shorter book (up to 100 pages), but not for longer ones, and not if you anticipate a lot of comments. This cost us a lot of time and nerves because comments are most useful if you can see them in the sidebar, alongside what the commenter highlighted. Lost may not be accurate in that we saw them in the “Comments” menu (and had received emails, too), but they just wouldn’t show up in the document itself. Lost comments: Here we-my editor and I-ran into a really strange bug. I’d write a paragraph, there’s a hiccup, and only a reload-losing some work-would help.

On slower connections I occasionally (fortunately rarely enough not to just abort the Docs experiment) lost edits. Lost edits: Google Docs is somewhat susceptible to network connectivity issues. Linearly decreasing performance: The more I wrote and the more people worked with me, the slower Docs became. No matter a former Googler, using Docs was absolutely my preferred choice to write the manuscript of my last book.ĭoing so I believe I’ve maxed out Docs’ capabilities-not in features, but in performance.

Google Docsĭocs, which seems to say “documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created with Google Drive” (I struggle naming the Google product) is a great choice for these document types because it’s backed up online and nicely integrated into all of Google. A few thoughts and tips on completing a book using either. Amazon KDP’s HTML format is a technical disgrace, and Amazon needs to fix it. Google Docs is okay to write short books and when making limited use of the comment feature. Post from Decem(↻ May 27, 2021), filed under Web Development and Everything Else. On Writing a Book with Google Docs and Amazon KDP