Archive for March 23rd, 2009:
Publishing on Amazon’s Kindle
posted March 23, 2009
Posted by Mariko Fujinaka in publishing technology
Here at Thomas Riggs & Company we are readers as well as writers and editors, so when the new edition of the Amazon Kindle came out, I decided to order one (you know, for research purposes). The whole Kindle revolution is an interesting one. There are already some quarter of a million books, an impressive selection, available for the Kindle. As a book publisher, Thomas Riggs & Company is thinking about launching a Kindle version concurrently with a paper version. So how hard is it to publish for a Kindle?
Amazon has made it pretty simple to publish books for sale on a Kindle. You basically just have to have an Amazon account (and who doesn’t these days) and a book to which you own the electronic publishing rights. The book can be in a number of formats, including HTML (the Amazon-recommended format), PDF, plain text, and Microsoft Word (but not .docx). You upload the file, Amazon then automatically converts the file to Amazon DTP (digital text platform), you set the Suggested Retail Price (Amazon pays you 35 percent of the Suggested Retail Price), and voila! Kindle book for sale!
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