Loading Your Book on the Kindle
I came across this post from Joe Wilkert’s Blog Kindleville and thought it was interesting for anyone who is thinking of making their book available on the Kindle. It shows that many authors aren’t aware of exactly how to load a document on to Amazon’s new reader. The author in the interview, for instance, is trying to load a pdf into the Kindle but that is not the right format.
Joe’s site led me to another Blog called, appropriately enough, Kindle Formatting. Here’s what I learned. You need to convert your document to html (both TheNextBigWriter and Booksie do that for you), and then use a free program called MobiPocket v4.2 Creator to convert it into a PRC file. Once that is done, it’s ready to be uploaded to Amazon for distribution on the Kindle. You can read Kindle Formatting for more detailed instructions.
Once you have your content in the .prc format, getting your book or article on to Amazon is easy. Go to the link below, set up your account, and go.
http://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin
So if you want to test out distributing a short story, poem, article, or even your book on Amazon, it’s not hard to do.
If anyone has uploaded their writing for Kindle distribution, let us know how it’s going.
Tags: amazon kindle, e-books, e-reader, kindle