Amazon Kindle Self Publishing

Self Publishing for the Amazon Kindle

Got a Book, Blog, HubPage, Squidoo Lense, or Master's Thesis you want to publish. Publshing it for the Amaozn Kindle Easily and for Free.

The Amaozn Kindle is Amazon.com's wireless reading device. It was realeased in November2007, and sold out immediately. Getting one by Christmas in 2007 was impossible, price were doubled on eBay, and I would be that this Christmas 2008 will be more of the same.

The Kindle recieved mixed reviews upon realease. Some of onlinegadget gurus trashed it for its appearance. Admittily, it does not look like a sleep Apple iPod. But hard-core readers were very impress with the device. And these gurus, who actually tried, the Kindle have changed their reviews over time.

The Amazon Kindle is not easily summed up with photos. You have to see one and hold it in your hands to appreciate how nice it is.

I (MSI Publishing) have been publishing electronic books and documents for the Kindle since November 2007. As soon, as the Kindle was released, I saw the potential for easily editing books for the Kindle.

I did not even own a Kindle when I started to publshing. Amazon has all of the tools that you need online. The Amazon Digital Text Platform even lets you preview your book as it will appear on the Kindle.

I have been publshing personal development and religious books and documents that are in the public domain for the KIndle. Other publisher are doing this, but frankly, many are doing a terrible job with very little quality control.

Amazon pays 35% of your listed retail price for content that is sold through their Kindle Store. Some publishers were up in arms at this small amount. And it is tough at times to see Amazon keep 65% of the profits.

But there are absolutely no overhead cost associated with publishing on the Kindle. No web hosting. No printing. No shipping. And it cost nothing to use Amazon's services.

Obvioulsy, you can only publish book and other documents for the Kindle where you are the copyright holder.

You can also publshing documents where the copyright has expired. Content for the Amazon Kindle is exclusively avaialble in the United States and the copyright has expired for ALL books in the U.S. publshed before January 1, 1923.

It is certainly possible to publish for the Kindle and promote you business, but avoid "spammy" publications with links to your website in the actual document or in the Amazon listing. These will be reported and delist after a period of time.

If you start to use the Digital Text Platform (DTP) you may encouter some problems or delays. I had one book that simply never got published. It was a Christmas related title and it did not go online before Christmas. I had to delete the files on the DTP associated it and re-publish it. It was a simple fix but a bit frustrating because I wanted it up before the Holidays.

If you go on the help forums for the DTP, you will see many disgruntled small publshers. But do not be discouraged. If you follow the threads you will see these are just some very small-time publishers who are just typing before they think.