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Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing: Self-publish your book to Amazon's Kindle Store

Kindle Direct Publishing: Get help with self-publishing your book to Amazon's Kindle Store A book is judged by its cover! Your cover image can have a direct impact on your readers' purchasing decisions and adding a high quality cover image is an effective way for you to inspire customer confidence and boost sales. The topics covered in this page will help you format and upload a catalog cover image. Please note: when you publish or re-publish your book, your cover image will be automatically added to the inside. To learn about adding a cover image or any image within your Kindle book, please see our Image Formatting Help page. Dimensions Color Borders for White Cover Art Uploading Your Cover Product Image Placeholders Some Frequently Asked Questions Kindle Direct Publishing accepts two types of files for cover images: JPEG, or .jpeg TIFF, or .tif(f) KDP applies additional compression to images when displaying them on its website. Dimensions Requirements for the size of your cover art have an ideal height/width ratio of 1.6, this means: Color Borders for White Cover Art 1.

What do you guys know about Amazon Direct Publishing? How to Turn Your Content into an E-Book in 5 Easy Steps by Kristen Eckstein One of the biggest questions I get from my clients is, “How do I turn my content into a book or e-book?” And I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be that hard! Turning your existing content into a Kindle book can be as easy as going for a treasure hunt on your hard drive for material you’ve created that would be good Kindle book content. Articles you’ve written for your blog (or guest posts for other blogs)Teleseminars, including Q&A sessionsWebinarsLive workshopsInterviews with othersPodcastsWorkshop booklets and materials you’ve created for live workshops you’re not conducting anymoreBooks you’ve started… and not finished (yet) I bet one or two of those sources has come as a surprise to you that it could be turned into an e-book for Kindle, iBooks and Nook. A note before we get started… Of all the above sources, articles you’ve written for your blog will be the easiest to turn into Kindle books . Step 1: Gather Your Content Step 2: Edit Your Materials Step 5: Upload!

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Channel Conflict Leanpub: Publish Early, Publish Often Amazon's Original Content Primes The Pump For Bigger Sales | KUNC Amazon is betting that binge-watching will lead to more online buying. On Friday, the company put up all 10 episodes of a highly anticipated series called Transparent, a show about a transgender parent coming out to her children — just one of a spate of original movies and TV shows coming out this year. Though the online shopping giant has a history of mediocre self-produced programming, this time it's bringing in some big name talent and putting a lot more financial muscle behind its efforts. Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, says getting arts and entertainment to its customers is in Amazon's DNA. "We sell a wide variety of products, but we do have our origin in books and movies and music and stories," Price says. So in 2011, the company made access to a streaming video service part of Amazon Prime, the retailer's premium service. "It adds special value to the service to have something completely unique and original that was developed with that customer group in mind," he says.

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