A new publishing aggregator to rival Smashwords is in town. Within the last few years e-books have become more and more popular and the publishing industry has gone through some big changes. Digital distribution has made it easier than ever before to bring your book to an audience and Draft2digital is the newest tool for [...]
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Playing around on the Kindle
It’s been an interesting few months. I’ve recently enjoyed playing around with the Kindle marketplace, publishing a few guides and documenting the results on video, along with some strategies to get higher rankings on Amazon for Your Internet Pie. I also finally finished a book, previously shelved for many years, that I had been working [...]
Amazon adds HTML5 Spice to the Kindle Format
Following the announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet, along with other new Kindle models, Amazon have recently stated on their website that E-books on the Kindle Fire will be powered by Kindle Format 8 (KF8), which will replace the existing Mobi format. KF8 will add over 150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 3 – Uploading to Kindle Marketplace
In the last Blog Post of this series we converted your word document to a .mobi file, the required format for the Amazon Kindle. Today we can upload the file to the Kindle Marketplace. Head over to http://www.kindledirectpublishing.com and sign in with your Amazon account or sign up if you don’t have one. Firstly fill [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 2 – Converting with Mobipocket
Part 1 of this series looked at preparing your word document for the Amazon Kindle platform. This part is looking at converting the document to the required .mobi format. Step 1: Kindle Desktop reader To check your ebook you’ll also need Amazon’s Kindle Reader for desktops: Go to Amazon.com, look under shop all departments and [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 1 – Preparing your Content
In this series of posts looking at Publish on Demand, I go through preparing, converting and publishing to get your content available for the Amazon kindle marketplace. Step 1: Preparing your Word Document When you have written your content in Word you’ll want to re-save a copy renamed specifically for the Kindle edition as we’ll [...]
The Rise and Rise of the Ebook
The ebook has well and truly arrived with sales elipsing those of physical books on the Amazon Kindle digital download platform. Mobile devices including iphones, ipads, android smart phones, PC tablets, Barnes and Noble’s Nook readers are also opening up a huge market in this area. Amazon triggered a snowball effect in terms of ebook [...]
