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

Stephen Windwalker (Author)

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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, 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. 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. This handy manual runs 142-pages in print-length; 41,000 words.

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. Windwalker attended and eventually graduated from Harvard College with the help of a full scholarship. 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 top selling titles in the Amazon Kindle store.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 239 KB
• Print Length: 145 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 097157782X
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press - indieKindle.blogspot.com; Revised May 31, 2008 edition (May 31, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0013IHXSA
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,353 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Reference > Words & Language > Readers
  • #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Reference > Writing > Journalism
  • #47 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Reference > Publishing & Books > Authorship

More About the Author

I cut my teeth as a writer covering the Cape Cod Baseball League and other sports for what was then called the Cape Cod Standard-Times and later the Boston Globe, studied the craft of writing with Robert Lowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Monroe Engel and Carter Wilson, and served as Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate. In 1999 I founded a small independent publishing company called Harvard Perspectives Press (named after two of my favorite institutions from my undergraduate years, the Harvard House of Pizza and the Harvard Wine Company), and it has done astonishingly well, with a couple of niche bestsellers, other work that we have been proud to published, and now some stunning successes with the Kindle publishing platform. I have three wonderful children, and along the way I've been an author, a community organizer, a bookseller, a publishing executive, a marathoner, an elected official, and some other things unsuitable for mention here.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mildly helpful, terribly formatted, March 24, 2009

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C. Jack Swinden "W5JCK" (Arlington, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content for the Amazon Kindle (Creating Your Own Success Story with New Technologies) (Kindle Edition)

I found this book marginally helpful. I think it is very interesting that a book on publishing Kindle books is so riddled with typographic errors and so horribly formatted. The author insists that you review and edit your material until it is perfect. Too bad he didn't take his own advice. Think about it; a book on publishing Kindle books and it doesn't contain a Cover image nor a Table of Contents, nor is it visually appealing. The paragraphs seem to run together without indentation or extra spacing between them. This book was obviously written by an amateur when it comes to documentation style. It is perhaps worth 99 cents, but not $9.99.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best, by far, advice now available for publishing on Kindle!, September 2, 2008

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Travis C. Ward "C. William Anderson" (Silverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles & Other Content for the Amazon Kindle (Creating Your Own Success Story with New Technologies) (Kindle Edition)

For a couple days there was a terrible warp in the Kindle Cosmos and it mixed up my review of this great book with another terrific piece by Paula Berinstein Point of View in Fiction Writing.

Although both are great buys for the money, this one is the Bible for publishing on Kindle and is an absolute must buy if you have any thoughts of earning any money or fame with your writing.

Windlwalker has already had a profound effect on me. I have written a radio cinema play, Travels West With Travis C. Ward that I will very soon publish on Kindle and that I also am converting into a full-blown novel for Kindle. Without Windwalker, I'd have never had the gumption!

By the way, without the great tips by Paula Berinstein (The Writing Show podcast), Michael A. Stackpole (produces Secrets Podcast for Writers and NYT Bestselling author of at least 38 fantasy and science fiction books) and Tee Morris, (The Survival Guide To Fantasy and Dummy's Guide to Podcasting) I am convinced I would not be tackling my passion. Why not?

Folks, I am incredibly busy as a health, safety and environmental protection manager for the new international airport in Tripoli, Libya. Except for my passion to express myself in print I would have no time to devote such efforts.

Hence, if you appreciate this review, it's great if you tell me but better even if you simply buy Mr. Windwalker's great book!

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this item. The title has almost nothing to do with the content!, February 12, 2008

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Dante "capecodbooklover" (the narrow land) - See all my reviews

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

Very little original content in this item, other than saying it's a great idea to publish for the Kindle. So read this sentence and save yourself the two bucks. The title is a come-on and has just about nothing to do with the content.