Have you ever heard of (drumroll please!)
Kindle books? And ever want to make them…for free?
Having written and published Inner Hero Parenting, I discovered….it's amazingly simple to do for free. ('course, I've also learned that people prefer buying how-to books as opposed to reading how to do them for free, so I'll probably add some Kindle products to Virtual Coach, but I digress. :)).
Anywhos, here's how you do it!
Step 1.) Write your Kindle book in ideally HTML or failing that, Microsoft Word or Open Office.
See, you'll have to first convert your Kindle book *to* html before Kindleizing it. So starting with the basics simply makes life far far easier.
Step 2.) If you go with Word or Open Office, use a Kindle template.
Here's the Kindle Template for Open Office.
And here are Kindle Templates for Microsoft Word. And one for the Kindle DX too!
Basically what this does is format your page to 5 by 8 inches, so what normally looks like 20 pages turns miraculously into 100 or more. 🙂
Step 3.) Embrace Kindle Direct Publishing
That's the fancy name Amazon.com uses for kindleizing.
You can learn more about it here.
Back to what I was talking about…
Step 4.) After your book is saved to a HTML format, use MobiPocket Creator to build your kindle book.
MobiPocket Creator…kindleizing it.
KindleGen is another kindle creator.
Step 5.) Preview how your book would look on Kindle!
You can download the Kindle Previewer here.
And once you're happy with how things look, you upload your book to your Kindle Publishing account…which is another post entirely. 🙂
So as you can see, the actual making of a Kindle book is pretty easy:
=> Write kindle content
=> Save kindle content in html
=> Convert kindle content to .mobi
=>Preview kindle content
=> Upload kindle book!
Woot!
Want some awesome free Kindle Tutorials, Tips and Resources?
Enjoy the below!
- Create a Kindle format ebook
- Epub Tutorial – Converting .odt Docs to Epub
- How to Publish Your Own Kindle Book
- How To Publish A Kindle Book
- How to Publish a Kindle ebook: Self-publish your own Kindle ebook using Microsoft Word
- Kindle Myths and Partial Truths
- Step by Step Scrivener to Kindle Tutorial
- Template to format your MSWord Novel to Kindle
- Table of Contents Tutorial
and don't forget these great Kindle forums for help too!
In closing, publishing your books on Kindle, while time consuming, is a rather simple process indeed.
So why not check it out today…it might be a very viable income source for you tomorrow!
Grow strong,
Barbara Ling
ps – speaking about kindles, have you seen: