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Amazon adds HTML5 Spice to the Kindle Format

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed for regular Online Marketing Intelligence and follow me on Twitter! Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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