By publishing on Amazon you are providing electronic version of book for Kindle devices , computers, smart phones and other gadgets, which has a special program for reading.
Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular devices for e-book reading - because of good marketing for Amazon devices, technological innovation and most importantly, the development of online services for the sale and delivery for content owners. Kindle tying your device to Amazon account getting the ability to browse and buy any books, magazines, newspapers available. Number of users of electronic books each year has steadily increased, because of the simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability of electronic books than paper.
No matter whether you're a beginner or a famous writer, Amazon offers the same opportunities to publish their e-books that gives you access to the huge market of readers.
Publishing a book on Amazon is very easy, below the steps of this process.
Creating a book
- Create your book in Microsoft Word and save it with the DOC extension. Don't keep the book with the extension RTF or DOCX - these formats are poorly compatible with Kindle.
- Pay attention to how to format your tekst. You can use bold, italic. Avoid over usage of headers and footers, markers, special characters and exotic fonts.
- Any images that you use in the text should be in JPEG format with center alignment. Remember - Kindle can display an image only in gray.
- Pay attention to your grammar and spelling.
Save the book in HTML format using the HTML filter
Once you have edited all, open a book in Word and choose "File" -> "Save As" -> "Web page", and then type "Web page with a filter". It's simple enough.
Conversion of the book using Mobipocket Creator
Mobipocket Creator is a software that turns your Filtered HTML-document in a book for sale on Amazon . program is only compatible with Windows. You can download it here .
Checking the book using the Kindle Previewer
Kindle Previewer will show you exactly what the reader will see when it opens the book. The program opens and previews files with the PRC extension.You can download it here .
Found a bug? To fix it, you need to change the original Microsoft Word document and go through the whole process described above and get a new PRC-file.
Publishing the book
If you are completely satisfied with the book, you can upload it in Amazon Store. Choose your PRC-file and upload it here . After specifying the required information and prices, click "Save and Publish". Your book will be shown on Amazon Store in the section on electronic books in next 24-48 hours. Kompaniya Amazon will pay you 70 percent of all you sales. Payment is by check when the minimum payment threshold of $100.
At the moment, Amazon officially supports the following languages:
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
But the basic Kindle users are English-speaking people and to achieve a more or less decent sales on Amazon your book must be in English.
Amazon Kindle is one of the most popular devices for e-book reading - because of good marketing for Amazon devices, technological innovation and most importantly, the development of online services for the sale and delivery for content owners. Kindle tying your device to Amazon account getting the ability to browse and buy any books, magazines, newspapers available. Number of users of electronic books each year has steadily increased, because of the simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability of electronic books than paper.
No matter whether you're a beginner or a famous writer, Amazon offers the same opportunities to publish their e-books that gives you access to the huge market of readers.
Publishing a book on Amazon is very easy, below the steps of this process.
Creating a book
- Create your book in Microsoft Word and save it with the DOC extension. Don't keep the book with the extension RTF or DOCX - these formats are poorly compatible with Kindle.
- Pay attention to how to format your tekst. You can use bold, italic. Avoid over usage of headers and footers, markers, special characters and exotic fonts.
- Any images that you use in the text should be in JPEG format with center alignment. Remember - Kindle can display an image only in gray.
- Pay attention to your grammar and spelling.
Save the book in HTML format using the HTML filter
Once you have edited all, open a book in Word and choose "File" -> "Save As" -> "Web page", and then type "Web page with a filter". It's simple enough.
Conversion of the book using Mobipocket Creator
Mobipocket Creator is a software that turns your Filtered HTML-document in a book for sale on Amazon . program is only compatible with Windows. You can download it here .
Checking the book using the Kindle Previewer
Kindle Previewer will show you exactly what the reader will see when it opens the book. The program opens and previews files with the PRC extension.You can download it here .
Found a bug? To fix it, you need to change the original Microsoft Word document and go through the whole process described above and get a new PRC-file.
Publishing the book
If you are completely satisfied with the book, you can upload it in Amazon Store. Choose your PRC-file and upload it here . After specifying the required information and prices, click "Save and Publish". Your book will be shown on Amazon Store in the section on electronic books in next 24-48 hours. Kompaniya Amazon will pay you 70 percent of all you sales. Payment is by check when the minimum payment threshold of $100.
At the moment, Amazon officially supports the following languages:
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
But the basic Kindle users are English-speaking people and to achieve a more or less decent sales on Amazon your book must be in English.
