When I got my notice the transition was smooth, but it has a serious glitch. It no longer has my books available in all the same countries as CreateSpace used. In order to get my home country, Canada, available purchase, I have to go back into the content and make changes to add the additional countries I want to sell in. When doing that, it came up that there was no manuscript or cover loaded and so I put them in there. When going to the print preview it became a nightmare. I did a few of the smaller books and it wasn't too bad, but when I tried to preview one of the Early Reader books, the preview ran for an hour and then crashed saying ERROR.
Frustrated, I sent an e-mail to Kindle's support group. The response was, "I see all of your manuscripts and covers, if you need any more help contact us again." Not sure what exactly they did when moving the files so have resorted to leaving them for now until the process is completed for the entire world, which will take a few months, I presume.
In the meantime, I will continue to write the books that are in progress and get them published in the timelines on my schedule. The KDP paperback service is different as you have to do everything all at the same time so will try to find another software to preview my work to fix errors, especially for the Children's Books that have several pictures in them and have to be an exact dpi to be accepted.
Okay, I have bored you enough about the challenges of being a writer, but please don't let it discourage you from taking on this great career. I have put below my new back cover (subject to change) just to keep you in the process of my soon to be published Children's Book Kracas and Viva.
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