KINDLE RATING: 8/10
I just loaded two ebooks to Kindle! I’m stoked about the possibilites there. It’s an incredibly huge, practically untapped market for authors, writers and educators.
I found that it was really easy to put your ebook up on the site using their online help, which walks you through step by step.
The only thing that might hang someone up is modifying their cover image to the size restrictions, since most people are not versed in photshop. But if you are good in photoshop or have an employee, VA, friend or rellie who is, and will do that for you, it’s a simple matter.
I have two objections: one, your book, whether it is in color or not, will be translated as black and white. I’m a complete neophyte as to the technology behind how the Kindle works, but seems to me they ought to be able to get color happening. That’s one reason I love ebooks–I can include my illustrations in full color, unlike getting print books made through Lulu.com or any other print on demand service where color in print is just over the top expensive.
And two, there seems to be a prevailing belief in the Kindle author community (there’s a pretty good Kindle support forum) that an ebook, since it is digital and ‘ephemeral,’ is not worth more than ten bucks!
Those people must be totally unfamiliar with how many thousands of ebooks sell for anywheres from seven to hundreds of dollars. Of course it’s perceived value, but if the author of a Kindle book puts a too-low price on his book, he’ll end up resenting the sales from it–especially since he only gets one-third of the retail price. And if it’s a too-high price, it won’t sell.
Somehow, the world community needs to know that there is just as much effort and expertise that goes into writing and creating ebooks as there is in a print book, and that there is no less value than one in print. How the book is read–online, on the computer desktop, printed out from an ebook, or in print form from an on-demand or traditional publisher–has no effect on the content!
I wonder how many bar napkins have been the source of vastly successful marketing or business plans. And how the people who implemented those plans would perceive the value of them if they could have seen their inglorious inceptions! Who cares how the information comes across–as long as it emerges and is manifested?
Well, nonetheless, the Kindle is a great innovation, and I’m grateful to have access to the Kindle market as part of my mission to create and publish books that help people tap themselves free. Imagine–only ten short years ago, neither print-on-demand, Kindle or ebooks had any place in our minds at all. What a world we are creating!
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT KINDLE? Do you own one? Is it easy to read? Are you an author with a book on Kindle? What do you like about using the Kindle, or publishing your books in the Kindle market? Comments are open!
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