The appearance of your book’s interior is every bit as important as the cover.  It should be formatted for readability. This involves the cover page, copyright page, font, font sizes, spacing between lines, headers and footers, pagination, and chapter headings to name a few.

If you’re formatting the book yourself, there are numerous “How To” documents available that you should read and follow. At the most fundamental level, the main body of your story should be in a text that’s easy to read. These are usually a serif font such as Times New Roman or a similar one. Sans serif fonts such as Arial are not as easy to read.

For fiction, the first paragraph of a chapter or section is NOT indented, but subsequent ones are. Nonfiction often uses block paragraphs that are not indented, but have a double-space between them.

The space between sections is more easily identified with a divider of some sort whether it’s * * * or even a small graphic that represents your story. You can simply use a double space if you like in a print book, but for an ebook that doesn’t work due to the fact the pagination is not static, but adjusts to the ereader. This means that sometimes the new section will also be the next page and the reader won’t have that clue that it’s a new section. Remember that one of the worst faux pas’s is confusing your reader and throwing him or her out of the story.

Print books need, as a minimum, to have page numbers. Headers and footers with the title, chapter title, or author name are options.

The main thing to remember is that poorly formatted books lose readers and will also label you as unprofessional. This can be a tedious and frustrating job in which case you might want to find someone on Fivver or some other service to do it for you. Just make sure they know what they’re doing and thus do it correctly.