Tag Archives: Amazon Kindle

Blogging 101, Day 4: Audience and Focus Post–Stream of Consciousness, Take 2

“Today’s assignment for Blogging 101 is particularly appropriate for the regular followers of this blog on how I’m learning to improve my own writing. ” Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 11: Publishing My Kindle Manuscript

Publishing my book turned out to be easier than I thought, although there were a few points where I messed up a bit–partly because this was my first time; partly because I had pictures in my document; partly because the … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 9. Formatting Tips

Dear Diary, Wow! I put together a no-frills document template for Kindle publishing that I’m sharing for free! (I’m adding the link to the template below.) So today, I plan to share what I learned from several authors about formatting … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary—Day 8 eBook pricing and length

Dear Diary, Today’s topic is supposed to be on pricing and length of the e-publication, and I’ll talk about that, but I also want to talk about something to watch for when addressing any electronic reading facility. Partly because of … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 7 Cover and book description

Dear Diary, Yesterday’s short post dealt with the ebook title. Today’s to-do deals with the ebook cover and writing the book’s description. And then there’s book content quality. To review yesterday, I played around with titles. I came pretty close … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 6 Creating a title

Dear Diary, According to Lambert Klein and Amy McDaniel, Kindle Success Formula: 12 Success Secrets for Generating a Full Time Income Selling Kindle eBooks Online The Power of Kindle Books: Selling and Marketing Your Ebooks for Residual Income – Promoting … Continue reading

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Marketing on Mobile Devices–Maybe for Books, Too?

Below is a link that takes you to a Google AdSense blog. Every Monday, the blog is dedicated to helping you improve your online sales of products and services. A lot of the posts address enough business-related information to make … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary—Day 5 More steps to topic choice

Today I’m going to check on what Amy McDaniel calls finding the demand and Lambert Klein calls “finding passionate buyers” for your ebook. Klein and Amy McDaniel (see Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 2) agree that how-to books are huge sellers. … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 4 Finding your niche

Dear Diary, This research stuff is harder than I thought! I’m not sure if I’ve found a niche, or just become more confused. The first thing I did was go to Amazon.com and check on the Kindle store for my … Continue reading

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Cheaper iPad 2 and Kindle Fire sales

If you are following my diary of learning to publish for Kindle, then you know that there are other places to epublish besides at Amazon.com. If you have also been following the tech news, you are aware that Kindle Fire … Continue reading

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