My First Kindle eBook is live on Amazon
It’s not taken me very long to get my Craig M’nure book sorted out for the Kindle. It took even less to get it uploaded and onto the Amazon Kindle store. about 3 hours – compare that to 2 weeks and counting at the iBooks store for ipad.
The book is available at
US Amazon http://amzn.to/J2cE5h
UK Amazon http://amzn.to/I6wmT0
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Those gray scale images might have been a mistake. There’s more to the Kindle system than just the E-ink ereaders. You might want to consider what the images look like on the apps.
Also, I’ve noticed that the image rendering on the KF is good enough that it can handle color images and display them well.
Thanks for that – this is why I like iPad :) what you make is what you get. Kindle is already a whole mishmash of formats which can all be put out of shape by increasing text size. But iPad is so frustrating because they don’t seem at all interested in approving apps for sale. How anyone is supposed to build a business model on the whim of an iBooks reviewer, I have no idea.
“the image rendering on the KF is good enough that it can handle color images and display them well.”
I meant to write Kindle, not KF. But you probably guessed that.
:)
Hats off to you Shoo. You are a man after my own heart and I am a man after your obvious creative and IT skills. Being a published author too, I hoped that the process of doing some self-publishing on the side would be not that onerous. Hah! I have managed to get an ibooks Author book called ‘Cuddle Muddle’ finished and it was actually for sale on the iBookstore until yesterday when it was pulled because I had written the word ‘ibook’ inside on the copyright page. So I am not able to use the word ibook despite it being a .ibook file. World’s gone mad. I have investigated getting stuff on the Kindle and it’s easy to do badly but so not easy to do well so to speak. Kindle Fire will be coming over in some form so I suggest using colour images – there is a problem in that the Kindle does not support large files so it is a trade off between image quality and size. Would love to have had a book on the Kindle site but am still fiddling with it – as my Indesign skills are non existent. How did you get the plug in to work? I have already mastered (ish) the wacom drawing tablet, premiere elements movie making, photoshop and ibooksAuthor but now indesign? Ahhh …The learning curves!
All the best – Al
Oh yeah I wrote iBook in mine – went on for weeks!The learning curves are enormous and I’ve been working up to this point for about 15 years. I know all this would come and it has been so frustrating all this time. Now it’s here, its only almost here … just not quite> We will get there in the end :)