Publishing on KWL: A Step-By-Step Guide
Once you have a Kobo account, you can create your author account here. Remember that you…
How do I make a change to my book after it is published on the Kobo store?
By Stephanie McGrath You have successfully published your book and it is now live on our store. Congratulations! However, you notice a typo that needs immediate…
Tech 101: Reflowable EPUBs VS Fixed Layout EPUBs
Last summer, Kobo Writing Life launched its professional EPUB conversion service on the Author Services tab of the Dashboard. Since then, we’ve seen one question come…
New Sales Report Template
Based upon the feedback that we’ve received over the last few years, Kobo Writing Life will be launching a consolidated sales reporting template in February 2017.…
New Pricing Control
Setting The Price On a New Book You will first set the price of your book starting with your default currency. If you set a list…
Tech 101: Validating and Testing Your eBooks
By Hufsa Tahir Like the finer things in life, eBooks don’t look as good as they often do without a lot of testing and loving attention…
Metadata 101
By Tara Cremin What is metadata? When creating a new eBook using Kobo Writing Life, you’ll be asked to input information that will help us to…
Embedding Fonts in Your Ebooks
By Hufsa Tahir Let’s talk about fonts. Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about them; we tend to use them for our book files,…
Frequently Asked Questions
We thought it might be helpful to answer some questions that our help-desk gets on the regular. Here are the most common questions we get. GENERAL…
Tech 101: What Is an ePub?
By Hufsa Tahir What is an ePub file? An ePub file is the digital format of a book used across all eReading devices and apps (Kobo,…
Ebook Formatting 101: Styling Tags in your Ebook’s CSS
By Hufsa Tahir Please note: this article assumes prior knowledge of CSS classes. Every chapter in an eBook file is made up of a collection of…
How To Share Your Books As Widely As Possible
When sending your book out into the world, how can you make sure that it is found by as many readers as possible? Certainly your marketing…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 037 – Victoria Strauss
This week’s podcast is essential listening for all authors: Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware is joining us to share her most important advice for how writers…
MS Word Tips for Authors
By Vanessa Ghosh Here’s a quick list of time-saving and book-beautifying tips for Microsoft Word. If you have any to add, feel free to post them…
KWL price scheduling tool now live
You can now schedule price promotions and permanent prices in KWL. Just set it and forget it! On the Set the Price screen, you’ll now see…
KWL new feature: free download tracking
Kobo Writing Life is pleased to announce that as of a recent October 2013 update you can now track your free book downloads! Up until now,…
Making sense of the KWL terms and conditions
All KWL authors received an email recently regarding a small change to the terms & conditions of the KWL agreement which will be in effect Oct…
New KWL WYSIWYG editor is here!
Now you can edit your existing eBooks or create new ones right on the KWL website with our WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)…
Avoid the meat-grinder! Creating a self-published book can be as easy as writing a blog
by Emily Craven I always had it in my head that something like Smashwords would be my first e-book platform: the easiest, the largest distributor, the…
Linking to Kobo
[Dec 2013 – EDITORIAL NOTE/UPDATE: With recent updates made to the Kobo website in most English language territories around the world, the method to link directly…