Publishing on Kindle
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My wife works for Amazon. She says that she will find out for you 
I'll let you know as soon as she tells me.
Cheers
Grebby
I'll let you know as soon as she tells me.
Cheers
Grebby
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
can he not make the novels into PDF and then sell them via a web site. Believe you can convert PDF files in a format which works on kindle.
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
PDFs work fine on a kindle as standard
I stand corrected... doth my cap to you Sir.
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There's a lot of discussion on publishing via Kindle on the YouWriteOn authors website:
http://www.youwriteon.com/forum/
It is tough for authors these days - most publishers won't look at unagented fiction, and getting an agent is difficult - the agents themselves have enormous 'slush piles'. Also it's well known that some of the most famous books (Harry Potter, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Catch22, etc) were rejected many times before being finally published. So it's no wonder people are looking at e-publishing which is easy and cheap. Having said that, I have downloaded opening chapters of various self-published books on to my Kindle, and quite a lot of them are not very well written.
Your friend is at an advantage if he's written two books - there is no doubt the more you write, the better you get. You Write On offers the facility for other members to rate and criticise opening chapters, and the best rated work each month is then reviewed by top publishers. I put up a couple of short stories which ended up at number 1 and number 4 in the YWO top ten chart, so I won a critical review from two big publishers: Random House and Orion.
They didn't offer to publish them though!
http://www.youwriteon.com/forum/
It is tough for authors these days - most publishers won't look at unagented fiction, and getting an agent is difficult - the agents themselves have enormous 'slush piles'. Also it's well known that some of the most famous books (Harry Potter, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Catch22, etc) were rejected many times before being finally published. So it's no wonder people are looking at e-publishing which is easy and cheap. Having said that, I have downloaded opening chapters of various self-published books on to my Kindle, and quite a lot of them are not very well written.
Your friend is at an advantage if he's written two books - there is no doubt the more you write, the better you get. You Write On offers the facility for other members to rate and criticise opening chapters, and the best rated work each month is then reviewed by top publishers. I put up a couple of short stories which ended up at number 1 and number 4 in the YWO top ten chart, so I won a critical review from two big publishers: Random House and Orion.
They didn't offer to publish them though!
Thanks for your advice.
I will admit I am all in favor of art/poetry/litrature as a rule.
But I rather dislike many people who produce it, they can be pretencious and arrogant.
Such as the guy I met just the other day `My names H, I write poetry`.
Or the person who I met who was s pleased when I said I read....
...and so contemptous when she saw my very extensive (and elecic interest) library was Nonfiction. To her they might as well have not existed.
I do read a bit of fiction. Today its a HG Wells Omnibus I got for 20p.
But people like that scorn sf...
I will admit I am all in favor of art/poetry/litrature as a rule.
But I rather dislike many people who produce it, they can be pretencious and arrogant.
Such as the guy I met just the other day `My names H, I write poetry`.
Or the person who I met who was s pleased when I said I read....
...and so contemptous when she saw my very extensive (and elecic interest) library was Nonfiction. To her they might as well have not existed.
I do read a bit of fiction. Today its a HG Wells Omnibus I got for 20p.
But people like that scorn sf...
You have a few other options like apple itunes and some other websites/services that provide print on demand to sell your books on paper, I've know www.bubok.es which is from Spain, but there should be some UK or US counterparts
Cheers
Esteban
Cheers
Esteban
