Tuesday Tips Kindle-ization #1: Ebooks Helpful Links

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 Thanks to all who attended my OWFI session on Epublishing–and so sorry that the power point didn't work as planned. I had LOTS more info to share so over the next several Tuesday Tips blogs, I'll share the info once again. So stay tuned–meanwhile, here are the notes from the handouts.

  

BLOGS OF NOTE

Joe Konrath http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

Bob Mayer http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/category/publishing-options/

Kristen Lamb (Social Networking Maven) http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/

Book Designer Joel Friedlander http://www.thebookdesigner.com/

E-PUBING OPTIONS

Amazon.com Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) & CreateSpace

            http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-summary-page.html?ie=UTF8&ld=AZFooterSelfPublish&topic=200260520

 KDP Forums, Technical Help

            http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/forumindex.jspa

 Kindle Image Sizing Help

            http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/07/adapting-comics-amazon-kindle-part-1-html-doc-tutorial/

 Barnes & Noble PubIt

            http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=pi_reg_home

 Smashwords

            http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords

            http://www.smashwords.com/about/supportfaq#Publishing  (support FAQ, help with formatting)

            http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_ipad_ebooks

            http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52   (Style Guide, FREE book with great reviews!)

Lulu

                http://www.lulu.com/browse/services/publishing/8/LULU00107

Kobo

                 http://kobobooks.com/companyinfo/authorsnpublishers.html

iPad

                http://www.ipadpublishing.net/how-to-publish-to-ipads.html

 Conversion Services

Aptara – http://www.aptaracorp.com/
Code Mantra – http://www.codemantra.com/
Innodata Isogen – http://www.innodata-isogen.com/
Jouve / Publishing Dimensions – http://www.pubdimensions.com/
LibreDigital – http://www.libredigital.com/

 Bowker (purchase ISBNs)

                   https://www.myidentifiers.com/

 Lightening Source POD (an Ingram company)

                      http://www.lightningsource.com/

 Promotion & Networking

  KindleBoards.com  Book Bazaar

            http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/board,42.0.html

 KindleBoards Writers  Café  (and "Tag" thread)

             http://tagmybookonamazon.wordpress.com/what-is-tagging/

            http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/board,60.0.html

            http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,31628.0.html  (UK)

How to Make Signature/Book Cover Link (Kindle)

            http://www.kindleboards.com/link/link-maker-1-0.php

 KINDLE PRIMER

              http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,42600.0.html

BOOK REVIEWERS

                http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,20049.0.html

 SOCIAL MEDIA

Goodreads.com. Become a member and promote your book—must spend time in discussion boards & "friends" can help.

 Nookboards.com. Become a member and promote your book.

LinkedIn groups–Writing Mafia

 FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn

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