If anyone else has a theplace invite, I'd be most grateful. I'm paranoid about maintaining a decent ratio on private trackers, but theplace.bz has always been closed to registrations when I visit it. In return I can provide a demonoid or torrentday invite.
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You're doing OK by creating in MS word. The best way to add graphics in Word is the normal way. Insert>Picture. Add a caption if required and then you're good to go. Note that for best results start your book in word, then save it as HTML. Re-open the HTM file in...
No need for multiple accounts due to crappy content so long as said content falls within Kindle guidelines. I'm operating three separate "pen names" covering three different niches from the one Kindle account. Put a different author name on each niche and the reader won't know that the female...
Many of the out-of-copyright books offered on Kindle are indeed poorly formatted (or not formatted at all), they usually lack illustrations and photos found in the original and this is a pet hate for many readers. When the text says "refer to Figure 27" and there's no pictures at all, folks tend...
A month is probably a bit of an exaggeration. I don't know... I do this sort of thing for a living. Does't take me a month to repackage an old book 500 pages long into a professional-looking kindle version. I've done it in 9 or 10 hours. Being highly proficient in a range of applications from MS...
A few thoughts on the mechanics of content creation... There are several things that a buyer of a kindle book will not abide - these are:
1. Obviously OCR'd text with junk characters, etc. Just say you're republishing an old book on the art of horsemanship and packaging it as "How to Ride a...
Potentially epic thread.
Nice to see you guys out there and trying the Kindle thang.
I put a few books up there as a trial earlier in the week. Sales aren't great, but this is more of a learning experience for me. I have made sales though - with no marketing involved. I even made the top...
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