Kindle Authors and Publishers

Here's help for you or a friend if you are researching whether or not to buy a Kindle

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Nearly 30,000 Kindle owners have purchased and downloaded the Kindle edition of my book, The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle, making it the premier guide for Kindlers.

Now it is the first Kindle guide to be published in a paperback edition, which may be a little ironic, but the availability of a paperback edition has already proved beneficial to hundreds of readers who want to check out the guide as part of their due-diligence before they lay out $359 for a brand new Kindle.

The paperback edition, 160 pages in length, can also be helpful to Kindle owners who want to consult a hard-copy in one hand while they are working with their Kindles with the other, as well as to Kindle authors and publishers.

Biggest Amazon Kindle price cut yet - $100 slashed, to $259

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Now here's the price break you've been waiting for!

You can save another $100 off that $359 Kindle, and still get it sent directly to you by Amazon.com with free 2-day shipping!

Just click here and you'll find the following paragraph:

Get the Amazon Rewards Visa Card and Get $100 Off Kindle
Thanks to Chase, you get $100 off Kindle when you get the new Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card. Limited time only. Here's how this works: 1) Apply online. Get a response in as little as 30 seconds. If you’re approved, we will instantly add the card to your Amazon.com account and you’ll get $30 back on your credit card statement after your purchase. 2) Add a Kindle to your cart. 3) Place your order using the Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card and enter this promo code: VISACARD to get the additional $70 savings at checkout. Additional restrictions apply.

And that's not all -- I hate to be a cheerleader for plastic in these hard times, but that Chase card will continue to provide you with cash back on all your Kindle (and other Amazon) purchases. Watch out, or Jeff will be sending you money!

The inside scoop on Kindle publishing from a bestselling KIndle author

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The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content for the Amazon Kindle: Creating Your Own Success Story with New Technologies (Paperback)

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(Kindle Edition and Signed Copies also available)

by Stephen Windwalker (Author)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Here's the do-it-yourself guide to creating your own success story with new technologies: the book that is helping thousands of authors and publishers to make a smooth and profitable transition to the digital publishing future, by Stephen Windwalker, who has learned from his experiences as an author, bookseller, and publishing executive to sell more copies than any other author in Amazon's Kindle Bookstore. Chapters include: A Step-by-Step Approach to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document, Publishing Your Fiction on the Kindle Platform, Start Earning a Living Today Writing Articles for the Kindle, The Business Side of Kindle Publishing, and Rebel Distribution and Amazon's Marketplace of the Mind: Why You Need a Publisher Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle. 41,000 words.

Product Details

Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Harvard Perspectives in Independent Publishing; 1st Edition edition (July 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097157782X
ISBN-13: 978-0971577824
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Front Matter and Table of Contents

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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
ABOUT EARLIER WINDWALKER TITLES:

"As a Kindle author with three novels available and others in progress, I found Stephen Windwalker's work invaluable. He provided great support and keen insight on preparing my work and connecting with readers.... The step-by-step support on the publishing process answered many questions…. It's great to have his works at my back."

—Edward Patterson, No Irish Need Apply

"Windwalker has managed to combine a straightforward how-to guide with an inspirational exploration of the importance of these new technologies for authors, publishers, and readers."

—Manuel Burgos, author of Graphics on the Kindle, www.rarearts.com

"An incredible business resource .... an experienced authority candidly describes the pitfalls and the realities of [the book business] with no punches withheld."

—Bob Spear, Heartland Reviews

Visit Stephen Windwalker's websites today!

IndieKindle at http://indiekindle.blogspot.com

A Kindle Home Page at http://kindlehomepage.blogspot.com

THE BOOK THAT IS HELPING THOUSANDS OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS TO MAKE A SMOOTH AND PROFITABLE TRANSITION TO THE DIGITAL PUBLISHING FUTURE …

…by Stephen Windwalker, the man who has learned from his experiences as an author, bookseller, and publishing executive to sell more copies than any other author in Amazon's Kindle Bookstore.

About the Author

Stephen Windwalker writes the indieKindle blog and is the author of several books and numerous short-form pieces of fiction and nonfiction, some under his real name. He has worked as a community organizer, fruit picker, bean counter, sports writer, dishwasher, publishing industry executive, elected official, sandwich maker, and bookseller, among other things. While an undergraduate he served as fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate and studied with Monroe Engel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Robert Lowell, and Carter Wilson. He lives near Boston and is astonished by the fact that he is the author of one of the bestselling titles in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Publishing And Marketing Books and Other Content

For the Amazon Kindle:
Creating Your Own Success Story
with New Technologies

By Stephen Windwalker
Harvard Perspectives Press
hppress@gmail.com
Arlington, Massachusetts
indiekindle.blogspot.com

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Publishing and Marketing Books and Other Content for the Amazon Kindle: Creating Your Own Success Story with New Technologies. Copyright 2008, Stephen Windwalker and Harvard Perspectives Press.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author or publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, article, book, or academic paper.

Unattributed quotations are by Stephen Windwalker.

ISBN 0-9715778-8-9

First Edition, 2008; First Printing, 2008

CONTENTS

PREFACE, p. 7

1. The Ideal Process and the Ideal Platform, p. 9

2. A Step-by-Step Approach to Publishing a Kindle Edition of Your Book or Document, p. 15

3. Publishing Your Fiction on the Kindle Platform, p. 27

4. Publishing Magazines and Other Periodicals For the Amazon Kindle: What Would Poor Richard Do?, p. 45

5. Start Earning a Living Today Writing Articles for the Kindle, p. 63

6. The Business Side of Kindle Publishing, p. 77

7. The Feedback is the Filter: Who Will Distinguish Quality in an Indie Publishing Future?, p. 93

8. Rebel Distribution and Amazon's Marketplace of the Mind: You Need a Publisher Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, p. 107

9. A Back Door to the Publishing Industry, p. 135

BIBLIOGRAPHY, p. 139

INDEX, p. 141

PREFACE

Among all the demons that writers must face down or otherwise make some settlement with, there are perhaps none more banal, insidious, and taxing than those we must challenge or accommodate when we try to work out some way of dealing with the "writer development" industry. It is large, serious, full of seduction and admonition, peopled with venerable mentors and mercenary pretenders, all arranged invitingly where we may have the greatest difficulty discerning between those who can assist us in the complicated processes of connecting our work with readers, of polishing and publishing, of discerning quality and disposing of dreck, and those whose only interest is in depositing our checks or online payments. One need only peruse the ads arrayed in the various writers' trade and craft magazines to conclude that writers spend tens of millions of dollars fueling the writer development industry – on workshops, conferences, retreats, MFA programs, book coaches, writing books, writing software, literary services, magazines, writing contests, vanity presses, advertising, fee-based literary agencies, marketing, and other permutations – all in hopes of taking their work to the next level, and perhaps even of hitting some imagined "big time" as authors.
Some of this money is very well spent. Some of it, whether or not it is well spent in terms of bringing positive results for those spending it, has the palpable benefit of providing support or even a living for serious writers who are themselves employed in this industry in one way or another. Some of it, it will come as no shock when disclose it here, includes the money that writers spend on this book. I make no apology for this fact, but I certainly accept and own the responsibility to do all that I can to make the entire project worth your while and your expenditure.