Comments on: Amazon’s Kindle Offers New Route To Publication http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/ Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sarah http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-66165 Sarah Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:39:58 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-66165 I'm a young teenager who just found this on the internet. I enjoyed it very much and it helped me to understand the Kindle. I have recently created a DTP account and plan to publish a number of my novels (I am in the process of writing two series). I was suspicious that the self-publishing on Amazon.com was not really for free. After I read this post, I'm pretty sure it is. Thanks again! I’m a young teenager who just found this on the internet. I enjoyed it very much and it helped me to understand the Kindle. I have recently created a DTP account and plan to publish a number of my novels (I am in the process of writing two series). I was suspicious that the self-publishing on Amazon.com was not really for free. After I read this post, I’m pretty sure it is. Thanks again!

]]> By: kindle delivery http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-62851 kindle delivery Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:38:06 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-62851 Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store."This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere. Amazon Kindle is an electronic book (e-book) device launched in the United States by Amazon.com in November 2007. <strong><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/kindle.delivery-20/105-4032749-6014846?_encoding=UTF8&node=4">Buy Now!!!</a></strong> Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store.”This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere. Amazon Kindle is an electronic book (e-book) device launched in the United States by Amazon.com in November 2007. Buy Now!!!

]]> By: Paul http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-25255 Paul Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:45:12 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-25255 What about serializing your book? That's what I'm doing over at manwithapen.com, with the science fiction story "Repubblica." (http://manwithapen.com/repubblica cover.htm) Seems like a great way to go for a writer. What about serializing your book? That’s what I’m doing over at manwithapen.com, with the science fiction story “Repubblica.”

(http://manwithapen.com/repubblica cover.htm)

Seems like a great way to go for a writer.

]]> By: Barbara Rozgonyi http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-23963 Barbara Rozgonyi Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:30:35 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-23963 Found this post via a google search for "converting your book to Kindle" and mentioned it in an answer on LinkedIn to a question about alternative publishing methods. Will be interesting to watch this new screen's evolutionary effect on reading and publishing. From a new marketing/PR perspective, publishing a Kindle edition sets you apart as being edgy, with it and there for your readers - where ever they may be. Really informative blog - will be back. Barbara Rozgonyi, Wired PR Works Found this post via a google search for “converting your book to Kindle” and mentioned it in an answer on LinkedIn to a question about alternative publishing methods.

Will be interesting to watch this new screen’s evolutionary effect on reading and publishing.

From a new marketing/PR perspective, publishing a Kindle edition sets you apart as being edgy, with it and there for your readers - where ever they may be.

Really informative blog - will be back.

Barbara Rozgonyi, Wired PR Works

]]> By: Tom Colvin http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-15154 Tom Colvin Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:14:21 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-15154 Charles, thanks for that detailed evaluation of the Kindle. It's one of the best user reivews I've come across. Please let us know as you upload your books to the Kindle store. There's a good chance I'll have a way of pointing blog readers to your work by early January. Charles, thanks for that detailed evaluation of the Kindle. It’s one of the best user reivews I’ve come across.

Please let us know as you upload your books to the Kindle store. There’s a good chance I’ll have a way of pointing blog readers to your work by early January.

]]> By: Charles Wilkes http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/wordpress/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-15144 Charles Wilkes Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:42:19 +0000 http://becoming-a-writer-seriously.com/2007/12/17/amazons-kindle-offers-new-route-to-publication/#comment-15144 I picked up on the publication possibilities immediately and ordered my Kindle about one second later. I have now had my Kindle for about two weeks, and love it. I have six publications in draft form, which I will finish one by one and publish on Kindle -- a surprisingly easy thing to do, and at no cost, or apparent restrictions other than what I consider common sense. The Kindle has enabled me to read faster than I can a regular book for a number of reasons. It is very easy on the eyes, and has a very easy to read type font which you can size adjust to meet your vision needs. Turning pages is just wonderful -- happens almost immediately, with just a touch of my right thumb. It's so fast, and requires so little action on my part, that I hardly even notice that I was interrupted at all -- certainly not to my chain of thought. But the Kindle is not just an ebook reader -- it is the very best audiobook device I have ever seen. I can listen to it as I drive. And I can have thousands of audiobooks stored on my Kindle, since I have increased the 180 MB memory size by 8 GB via an inserted SDHC card of that size. The Kindle does have music possibilities as well, but it really needs some development in this respect, as they have envisioned this capability for use as a background music source to hear while you read. How shortsighted. I want to listen to Opera and Symphonies -- not "tunes". There are only a very few problems, and all that I have encountered I have solved with a little imagination. For example the page turning buttons are not a problem if you just leave your Kindle in the supplied Book Cover, held down by the attached flat rubber band stretched vertically along the left edge. Also, I don't like DRM -- Digital Rights Management -- a hold over from the earlier attempt to "copy protect" programs which users completely rebelled against. But I solved this by getting non-DRM content on my hard drive first, and then uploading to my Kindle. All in all, I really love my Kindle, and take it with me everywhere. Don't listen to the nay sayers who don't have one, and most likely haven't even seen one themselves. Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif. I picked up on the publication possibilities immediately and ordered my Kindle about one second later. I have now had my Kindle for about two weeks, and love it. I have six publications in draft form, which I will finish one by one and publish on Kindle — a surprisingly easy thing to do, and at no cost, or apparent restrictions other than what I consider common sense.

The Kindle has enabled me to read faster than I can a regular book for a number of reasons. It is very easy on the eyes, and has a very easy to read type font which you can size adjust to meet your vision needs. Turning pages is just wonderful — happens almost immediately, with just a touch of my right thumb. It’s so fast, and requires so little action on my part, that I hardly even notice that I was interrupted at all — certainly not to my chain of thought.

But the Kindle is not just an ebook reader — it is the very best audiobook device I have ever seen. I can listen to it as I drive. And I can have thousands of audiobooks stored on my Kindle, since I have increased the 180 MB memory size by 8 GB via an inserted SDHC card of that size.

The Kindle does have music possibilities as well, but it really needs some development in this respect, as they have envisioned this capability for use as a background music source to hear while you read. How shortsighted. I want to listen to Opera and Symphonies — not “tunes”.

There are only a very few problems, and all that I have encountered I have solved with a little imagination. For example the page turning buttons are not a problem if you just leave your Kindle in the supplied Book Cover, held down by the attached flat rubber band stretched vertically along the left edge.

Also, I don’t like DRM — Digital Rights Management — a hold over from the earlier attempt to “copy protect” programs which users completely rebelled against. But I solved this by getting non-DRM content on my hard drive first, and then uploading to my Kindle.

All in all, I really love my Kindle, and take it with me everywhere. Don’t listen to the nay sayers who don’t have one, and most likely haven’t even seen one themselves.

Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.

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