I was trying to revise the book Description for my wife's book that we self published using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.

But when the book change appeared, all the spaces I had added were gone and the text was one complete block.

I asked support about this and was informed that I had to format the text in HTML! Nowhere on the page does it even offer this option and how many authors, let alone those who format the book, know HTML? Fortunately I still remember it and was able to achieve a modicum of formatting.

But HTML? Sheesh, c'mon Amazon. This is the 21st century for crying out loud. And not all tags are acceptable. So if anyone is working on a book using KDP (formerly CreateSpace) and need to format the book description, here is a link to the tags supported
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishi...A377RPHW6ZG4D8