Publishing & Marketing Opportunities on the Amazon Kindle Platform

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Comment by Stefhen Bryan on September 7, 2008 at 11:39am

Stephen san, bought and read your book about kindling. its packed with excellent advice, which i have already implemented. Ive re-uploaded black passenger as a beta test for 99cents. I am trying to find the kindle blogs to inform everyone of the beta test. where are they? and where should I post the notice.

oh, i found a few grammatical errors and have made note of them. let me know if you would like for me to point them out to you.

thanks for the best wishes.

stefhen

Comment by Marc A. Pitman, CFCC on August 14, 2008 at 11:17pm

I had a reader beg me to make Ask Without Fear! available as a Kindle version.

Easy process to do.

Is anyone seeing a need to specially market their Kindle editions?

Comment by Stephen Windwalker on August 14, 2008 at 7:43am

I am happy to see potential participation growing here. I am in the final throes of finishing a book -- literally days, less than a week -- so I am less present here than I should be, but that will change soon. Next week.

Comment by Peri on August 13, 2008 at 9:36pm

Aloha!
I'm looking forward to learning more with you here.

Comment by Manuel Burgos on July 21, 2008 at 7:55am

I too have had great success publishing Kindle ebooks thorugh Amazon's DTP, as well as print editions of the same books. But my focus has been on preparing graphics for this device. As many of you know, graphics don't always display well on the Kindle because of E-ink's 4 level grayscale (aka 2 bit color: black, white, light gray, dark gray); the Kindle will dither everything else and make a mess of graphics containing low contrast areas. As if that isn't bad enough, images that are not in the correct resolution get scaled down. After a great deal of trial and error, I came up with ways to make images better looking and not scale down. I shared my findings in the low-cost ebook Graphics on the Kindle which I'm happy to say has remained in the top 1% of Kindle book sales.

I received many emails seeking additional help primarily from one industry: comic creators. I realized that there was a real hunger for going beyond what the Kindle was originally designed for, driven by its ability to let users shop for and download books quickly and easily. So I wrote Formatting Comics for the Kindle and at first it did okay, but not as good as Graphics on the Kindle.

And for good reason: Formatting Comics primarily targets independent comic creators. Many create their comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels out of sheer love and make little or no profit, so affording a $359 device is a challenge. So I published the second book in print edition for sale on my own website, and put the word out to the indie comic creators that you don't need a Kindle to publish on the Kindle.

This approach was very successful for me and several comic creators have already published their works in Kindle edition. I'll be attending the Small Press Expo (SPX) this fall in Bethesda, MD, the premier exhibition for indie comic book and comic strip creators, and hope to entice exhibitors to try this new method of publishing their works.

Recently sales of the Kindle edition of Formatting Comics have picked up which is great, joining the 1st book in the top 1% of Kindle books sold. I still sell the 2nd book in print edition. I have my own merchant account, and have my own print-on-demand capabilities including binding machines. Good customer support is what drives sales so I am careful to answer every email request that comes in timely and thoroughly.

I'm really hoping some of the comic strips publish on the Kindle because who doesn't need a good laugh now and then?

Thanks for reading!
--Manny
www.rarearts.com

Comment by Stephen Windwalker on July 21, 2008 at 7:34am

Welcome, Tom, JW, Kathleen, Jo, Manuel, Kat, and Joshua!

Kathleen, if it isn't the wave of the future, it is part of the wave, and for me at least it has been a great way to participate in the future. Although the greatest success I have experienced as a Kindle author has been with nonfiction, I have also been excited by significant sales of my fiction (both short and long) and essays.

Manuel, amazing job on your profile image. As usual you do great justice to your rep as a graphics wizard!

Cheers to all.

Comment by Stephen Windwalker on July 21, 2008 at 7:29am

It's great to see that some worthy people have found the group interesting enough to join, and I have no doubt that you will add as much as I will to its value. I'm just getting the hang of the practices and protocols of John's network, but one thing I will try to do several times a week is to take a small but meaningful chunk of content from my book on Kindle publishing and share it with the group's members as a broadcast message. I hope that you will find this helpful -- please feel free to make suggestions about this or anything else you see me doing! Today's broadcast message comes from my chapter called "Start Earning a Living Today Writing Articles for the Kindle," and its heading is "Skipping the Middleman: Why the Kindle Is Ideal for Short Pieces"

Comment by Jo Fulkerson on July 20, 2008 at 9:12am

I just joined this group and am very interested in it.

Comment by Kathleen Heady on July 20, 2008 at 5:37am

Kindle sounds like the wave of the future.
I, too, have a novel in publication -- The Gate House at Virtual Tales.
http://www.kathleenheady.com
Kathy

Comment by JW Thompson on July 20, 2008 at 3:38am

Sounds interesting

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