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Ebook-Only and Print-Only Content

One manuscript makes all your editions, but some things belong in only one of them: a QR code that only makes sense on paper, a "buy the next book" link for Kindle readers, a contents page you only want in the ebook. This article shows how to mark text, pictures and whole elements for some editions only.

Marking a passage

  1. Click in the paragraph, or select several paragraphs.
  2. Choose Text ▸ Show Only In, or select the text, right-click it and choose Show Only In.
  3. Choose where the passage should appear:
    • All Editions (the normal setting),
    • Ebooks (all ebooks, but not print),
    • Print (the print edition only),
    • or, under One Store’s Ebook, Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Nook or Google Play.

You can tick more than one store. For example, tick Kindle and Kobo for a passage that should appear in those two ebooks only. Choose a store again to untick it, or choose All Editions to clear the mark.

In the editor, a marked passage sits in a tinted box labelled Only in: with where it shows. The box is only in the editor, not in your book.

a paragraph in the editor marked "Only in: kindle", in its tinted box

Tip: Write the passage once for each store. A "Leave a review" paragraph can link to Amazon in a Kindle-only copy, and to Apple Books in an Apple Books-only copy.

Marking a feature

Text features such as block quotes, lists, alignment blocks and text conversations have the same choice in their own menu:

  1. Click inside the feature.
  2. Click ⚙ ▾ on its frame and hold the pointer over Include In.
  3. Choose All Editions, Ebooks Only, Print Only, or one or more stores under One Store's Ebook.

See Adding Text Features.

Marking a picture

  1. Click the picture in the editor.
  2. In Image properties, change Include in to Ebooks Only or Print Only.

The picture shows a small label in the editor. To use a colour map in the ebook and a black-and-white one in print, add both and mark one for each. See Pictures.

Heading images have their own setting: Include In under Heading Settings in Styles. See Chapter Headings.

Marking a whole element

Front matter, back matter and other elements can belong to one kind of edition too:

  1. Select the element in the sidebar.
  2. Choose Chapter ▸ Include In and choose All Editions, Ebooks Only or Print Only. You can also click ⚙ ▾ beside the element's title and change Include in.

The element gets a small ebook or print tag in the sidebar.

A few elements start this way:

  • The Half Title is print only.
  • The Table of Contents is ebook only. To give your paperback a contents page, set it to All Editions.

Chapters always appear in every edition. To keep part of a chapter out of one edition, mark the passage instead.

Note: Include In on a Volume applies to everything inside it.

Checking each edition

The preview shows each edition as it will be:

  • Choose a device in Preview ▸ Device. A Kindle device shows Kindle-only passages and hides passages for other stores; an Apple Books device shows Apple Books-only passages, and so on.
  • Choose Print to see the print edition, without the ebook-only content.

See Previewing Your Book. When you generate, each file gets only the content meant for it. See Generating Books.

Print-only page settings

Begin on (print) (whether an element starts on the right or left side of a printed spread) and the Print layout of a full-page image only change the print edition. Ebooks ignore them.