Kindle books on Amazon

Subject: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:20 pm

Have any authors here much experience of getting a kindle edition of a paperback book? I can see an obvious benefit in that, compared to a publish america title, a kindle edition retails on Amazon a few dollars cheaper.

Is it worth a go?
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:44 pm

Ahad, I have no experience in the area, but have a feeling that Kindle or other ebook venues are the wave of the future. More mass transit commuters will want something easy to carry with which to amuse themselves.

I doubt that traditional books will ever vanish, but ebooks are a convenient way to obtain and carry literature.
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Zada Connaway
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When my GUNSHOT ECHOES was first released by Champagne Books, it was in e-book, and showed up on Amazon as a Kindle selection. When the paper-print edition was released three months later, it was on Amazon as well, but was flagged as available also as a a Kindle book. My second Champagne book is due for release in August, in e-format initially, and I expect it to be an Amazon Kindle selection too.

Jim Woods
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:06 pm

Ahad,

I have my PA book on Amazon as a Kindle edition. I friend kindly converted the file so that it could be read on the Mobipocket reader and Amazon Kindle. But you need to have your rights back from PA to do this.
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:19 pm

I'd say the whole Kindle concept is a rip-off.

A reader that costs twice as much as it should because it's hooked up wireless to amazon... otherwise known as a monopoly that the buyer pays for.

Charging TEN BUCKS to download something that is created for free.

Almost any form of eBook makes more sense to me.

I mean, you can just export a word processor file as a pdf and voila...an eBook.
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:04 pm

Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:05 pm

lin, how about promotion? Any ideas pro and con?
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Zada Connaway
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:43 pm

You mean for promoting a self-produced eBook? Same as any other book, I guess.

Sell the download off your site.

It's not like having it on amazon draws a lot of walk-by traffic. You'd have to drive that anyway. And probably make about 3 bucks.

You can sell your own for $4 and make a buck more. With the advantage of great sales because...let's face it... ten bucks for a computer file you need a 400 dollar machine to read is a total rip.
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:13 pm

A $10 computer file and a $400 machine to read it, that's such a rip off that it's almost criminal! Personally, when I read a book, I prefer to have an actual printed and bound paper book, not just a computer screen to stare at. I guess in that regard I'm old fashioned, I like paper. study

Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:14 pm

If you load your book onto Mobipocket you can set your own price for your e-book, just as you do on Lulu. Mobipocket make the book available to Amazon Kindle at the same price. Most ebooks by unknown authors retail for under $5.00, which is less than your average paperback book.
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P. Gordon, I feel as you do. I like paperprint, and it sure doesn't hurt if the pages are sandwiched between stiff leather. But I also like to sell books so if e-format is the wave of the market, I'll allow mine to go electronic. It's bad enough, though, that the book manuscripts I edit for the company that pays me to do so have to be read on-screen.

Jim Woods
www.ultrasw.com/jwoods

Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:39 am

This whole mobile/cell phone thing is really interesting to me and I think it's the infancy of the future of entertainment.

I have a lot easier time seeing people on a bus or lunch break reading a story of their pocket phone than that Kindle snafu.
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:12 am

This is a little, or a lot off-subject, but I'm curious. Jenny, if I understand correctly, you mentioned that you sell your former PA book as a Kindle edition on Amazon. I assume it's PA's cover. Does PA still own the cover design? I'm not aware of the legalities so I've just let my book sit, but I'd like to offer it as an ebook from my site.

I, too, asked for and received my rights to Ten Times Guilty a couple of years ago.
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Subject: Re: Kindle books on Amazon Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:00 pm

Anyone interested in Kindle should be sure to read the story about it on today's Publishers Weekly morning report.
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Thanks Dick! I followed this link from the morning report that says Kindle sales amount to 6% of all amazon book sales:

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-d6-jeff-bezos
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