Amazon Kindle market place

[MichelleHall99]

Has somebody tried selling ebooks in the Amazon Kindle market place?

[sashamerideth]

I think several of us have stuff on Amazon. I put up my first piece a few days ago, via KDP. I think others are using Createspace to get physical books out, I am not one of them. At this stage, I don't know much about it, still learning the ropes.

Do you have any more specific questions for us?

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[Benjamin Clayborne]

I put up a short story on KDP a couple of years ago (under another name). Mostly just for s**** and giggles. It's sold maybe ten copies in the years since. ;-) I never promoted it, and in retrospect I don't think it's very good, I just put it there to see if I could.

However, when I finish my novel, I am definitely (and primarily) planning to release it through KDP. (And free copies to all Mythic Scribes members who ask... limited time offer, restrictions may apply, do not ingest orally, etc.)

[Telcontar]

Not yet, but will be soon. If you stick around no doubt you'll hear all about it, either on my blog or around here.

[Devor]

(And free copies to all Mythic Scribes members who ask... limited time offer, restrictions may apply, do not ingest orally, etc.)

If you're serious I'd love a copy.

[Benjamin Clayborne]

If you're serious I'd love a copy.

Quite serious. ;-) But I'll post when it's done (probably in a few weeks... depending on how much time I get to write. Damn kids.) and at that point (for up to, say, a week) everyone who PMs me their email will get a free copy. Or something like that. I need to work out the details, like what file formats I'll offer (probably PDF and mobi and epub? I want to be able to cover everyone's favorite reading method, except of course for physical books, because what am I, made of money?) and so on.

[sashamerideth]

Quiet serious. ;-) But I'll post when it's done (probably in a few weeks... depending on how much time I get to write. Damn kids.) and at that point (for up to, say, a week) everyone who PMs me their email will get a free copy. Or something like that. I need to work out the details, like what file formats I'll offer (probably PDF and mobi and epub? I want to be able to cover everyone's favorite reading method, except of course for physical books, because what am I, made of money?) and so on.

ePub, mobi and pdf should get the majority, there's always Calibre to convert from one to the other.

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[Telcontar]

Ben, if you Smashwords the thing it will create pretty much all the different formats for you. You'd be able to give out 'coupons' to whoever you want, as well, so they can get the book for free. Just a thought.

[Alexander Knight]

I made my book, Princess of Prophecy, available via Kindle in early November. The process is has a couple of tricky parts, mainly dealing with creating the index to the book, but I got it from Word to .prc format in one evening, so it's not that hard. Of course, I can code in HTML which helped solve one of my issues. but the Mobipocket Creator does that vast majority of the work for you. If you have trouble formatting your book completely, let me know. I'd be glad to help if I can.

[ALB2012]

Yeah me

I just put mine on there. I will be doing print on demand at some point and I will probably use smashwords as well when my KDP select runs out. I buy the majority of my books via kindle. However been looking into smashwords as they cater for nook and other e readers too.

Formatting was a bit odd, but that is more me being unsure of HTML more than anything. I have yet to be paid but as the book has only been up a couple of weeks its fine

I have to say I am have seen some really badly formatted books. One I saw the other day had "the" just on it's own randomly.