You can also load your ebook
at KINDLE PUBLISHING for FREE and join their «Select» category.
Not exact matches
Self -
publishing has not only democratized
publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for authors to
publish at low or no cost, own all the rights, control the pricing and timetable for
publishing, and get their books listed for sale and distribution on major outlets and platforms — e.g. Amazon,
kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google and more.
I
published my first
kindle ebook
at the end of June.
Last month, Amazon's traditional
publishing arm and its host of imprints at Amazon Publishing announced a new incentive to get people reading on their Kindles: Kin
publishing arm and its host of imprints
at Amazon
Publishing announced a new incentive to get people reading on their Kindles: Kin
Publishing announced a new incentive to get people reading on their
Kindles: Kindle First.
Hands Off Books Review and Bonus It is just so much fun learning all the different ways that you can get your
kindle books
published without having to do much work
at all yourself!
My current Kindle edition has some formatting editions (
Kindles don't take too kindly to drop caps, sidebars, and the like), so rather than reformat the first edition, which was somewhat out of date, given that it was
published in 2007, I just decided to crack out the new edition and then correct the Kindle edition all
at the same time.
«Amazon is a Trojan Horse, offering low prices today — while Wall Street is willing to float a company that doesn't make a profit —
at the cost of destroying the [traditional]
publishing ecosystem that is indispensable to authors... Amazon actually prevents competition by locking its customers in through devices like Prime and DRM, which means Amazon customers can't read books sold by Apple or Google Play on their
Kindles.»
The Long Road is
published this week
at an introductory price of 99 cents and ready for reading on all the
Kindles, Kobos and iPads that will be unwrapped this holiday season.
I've felt for a long time that if Amazon got their act together by offering
Kindles at a lower price point (which hasn't happened yet, but must be on the horizon), they could easily position themselves to dominate the industry, effectively cutting out traditional
publishing houses.
We don't think an Amazon monopoly in
publishing is good for readers and there are also
at least 25 percent of the digital reading market who don't have
Kindles but some other device.
These folks were self -
publishing right
at the beginning of the movement (before the
kindle even became a thing), and have seen and tried a lot over the years.
For you personally to be able to
publish at kindle, you also should produce an account.
Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital
Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader
at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own
Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.52