ebooks:Idea to Amazon in 14 days
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In her typical "Marnie" fashion, she has written a fabulous "how to" book on publishing "e-books". It's an easy read and full of recommendations and links to check out her suggestions. Not only does she provide encouragement and inspiration from her vast years of knowledge on the subject of e-books, the links are contained in her message. Ms. Swedberg challenges us along the way. Marnie's deep and abiding faith shines through in this little book. Even if you aren't considering "self-publishing" an e-book, I think everyone should read this one. By the way, it doesn't matter what stage you are at; just thinking about writing a book, half way finished, or a completed manuscript, this is a must read. You won't be sorry you bought this one.
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This is really a fabulous product.  Bezos is a genius.  If you can read this, you can learn to operate most of its features in seconds without even poking your metaphorical nose into the built-in user's guide.  The text is crystal clear and as readable as the very best printed text.  The ability to change the text size over a wide range of sizes without changing the sharpness of the text makes this product accessible to all ages and degrees of visual acuity.  With the cover, the size, shape, weight and feel of the device is like a thin paperback novel.  Even without adding an SD card, the device can hold about 200 books, so one could keep one's entire library on the Kindle and never have to hunt for a physical book again.

It took less than 10 min to charge the battery.  I thought something was broken at first since the "charging" light went out so fast.  Since then, I've been playing with it for a couple of days and the battery indicator hasn't twitched from "full" yet.

The ability to browse the web for free thru the whispernet is kind of amazing.  I suspect that probably won't be viable in the longer term.  The cost of browsing will probably have to be recovered somehow, although Amazon has managed in the past to do things to build customer loyalty which seemed impossible to sustain, so they may well continue to surprise in this area as well.  Amazon has been so far out in front of the retail sales crowd in terms of customer experience that they seem to be in a different business altogether.

I have a few suggestions for improvements and knowing Amazon over the years, I expect most if not all of these have been addressed in the new version or will be soon.

The most obvious criticism is the relative dearth of content.  The ability to convert one's existing digital content to Kindle readable formats helps a lot.  I would like to see a service which would let you download the Kindle versions of any books you have already bought through Amazon in paper form for a small fee (to cover the whispernet and administrative costs involved).  The "Past Purchases" section of the Amazon website should have a link on each of your past purchases which would let you order the Kindle copy of that item (if one is available) for a relatively small fraction of the cost of buying the Kindle version from the Kindle Store.  Obviously as the Kindle takes off, the content for it will explode.  I would love to be able to get NewScientist magazine for my Kindle.  I currently get the digital version of it from NewsStand.

The cover that comes with the Kindle doesn't have a really good grip on the device.  It should have some way of snapping the left edge of the Kindle into the two corners of the cover into which it currently slides loosely.  Perhaps some kind of hinge arrangement or small rings like a looseleaf binder could be devised so that the Kindle could stay in the cover when you flip it over to turn it on or access the SD RAM slot on the back. On the bright side, my wife managed to drop it out of the cover to a concrete floor with no detectable ill effects.  Also, the padding on the part of the cover that covers the screen is a great idea.

The experimental section should have a minimally capable spreadsheet for adding up expenses, calories, gas mileage, and the like.

The blanking period between pages is a bit on the long side, but not enough to seriously interfere with reading.  It isn't significantly longer than it would take to manually turn a page on a real book.

The ability to display colors would be nice but really isn't essential for reading text.
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I love Kindle for that reason. The book suggestion came up in a meeting and I was able to order instantly
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I just got an email saying that for a limited time this ebook is free... and it is at the other places the author recommends buying from... but then it's .99 here... go figure!
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I do not purchase a v1.0 of any device, so I will let the techno pioneers work out the bugs first. But I have to say that I am very intrigued by this device and feel that Amazon is heading down a very wonderful path.

The next step would be a subscription option were authors get paid for their work, but the users would not necessarily be saddled with the long term commitment, like the video rental store model or Safari Bookshelf that I subscribe to. My bookshelf allows me view 10 tech/business books per month. I can keep any book in my bookshelf as long as I continue my subscription or rotate books after 30 days.  Safari also allows the option of downloading chapters of books subscribed to(in PDF format).  So if O'Reilly can do it, Amazon can too!

The clincher for me would be PDF support, until this is available it is difficult to justify spending the $400, too much of my reference material is PDF format.
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I won a Amazon gift card bought Unrestrained.  I do have quite a long book list and stuff to get.
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Great info very useful! ...... Amazon  unlimited number of people who want to control the method of payment at 5
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Am happy with this book and the speed with which it was delivered. Good job Amazon. Good job Vender.
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I booked a book like 1 month ago. I just received like last week. I am not happy about the delivery part.
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I received my book on time before my class had even started, everywhere else I reasearched said 2 week processing. Amazon is amazing, I received my book within 3 days on my door mat!!!! And my book was $50.00 cheaper, will definately order from Amazon again next semester!!!
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Agree. Easy. Fast. Tied to Amazon...not all bad. Browser plenty fast. Email link easy. Books easy access, Whispersync works nicely. Like better, has replaced my nook.
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One slight niggle: his ebooks don't make use of hyperlinks which are one of the great advantages of the ebooks medium. For example, the table of contents should be click able to go straight to the chapter. I believe there's an option when publishing to Amazon Kindle that all purchases will get automatic updates for future 'reprints' - here's hoping Peter does this and we get updates with hyperlinks. 73 EA5IGC
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very good explanations of the efforts for formatting an ebook for sale on Amazon
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Very basic (amazon basics duh) but useful - arrived 1 day instead of 3 days for some reason, not sure if this is amazon is the bomb or the seller (i guess that's amazon also ;)) is the bomb.
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I think it is obnoxious to corrupt Amazon's public review process for obviously selfish reasons.  Kindle fanatics should download books on etiquette and let the merits of Game Change be judged on legitimate grounds.
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Here is What You Should Know About Buying a Book From Amazon: It's not a book, its a pamphlet. It's about the size of a recipe card, and about 15 pages long. Maybe 200 words, none of them actually helpful.
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I was actually hesitant on purchasing Brent Sampson's book, "Sell Your Book on Amazon", partly due to the fact that I wasn't sure if I really needed to purchase a book for my current book listing on Amazon.  Everything is already there for you on Amazon, right?  It should be easy, right?  Wrong.  If you don't know exactly what you need to do, it's very difficult to find, update, or even know what's the best way to make your book stand out.

This book answered most of my questions and exceeded my expectations.  I would suggest for anyone who purchases this book to read the entire book once through and then go back through the areas that pertain to you and really study it.  The reason why I suggest this is because you want to make a "game plan" on how you want to proceed.  Mr. Sampson gives you the information and suggestions on what you should do, but "you" have to write and organize your marketing strategies.

I found of particular interest were the areas of AmazonConnect, Author Photo & Caption, Tags, Listmania, Amazon Blog, and the Book Detail Page to be particularly helpful.  There is no wrong way to approach this, but there is definitely a more effective way to approach it.  This book won't help you much if you don't already have a good product to begin with, and that means you really have to take a good objective look at your work.  With that being said, it's important to come up with a strategy for your product and act accordingly.  This will help with any unnecessary revisions in the future costing you more time.

I've already begun to incorporate the main important strategies of the book and I'm beginning to see results.  I know that I wouldn't have been able to get this far if I hadn't read this book.  It's still a work in progress, but I'm very pleased with the results.  I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to promote a book on Amazon.  Thanks Brent Sampson!

-Jennifer Chase, author of thriller "Compulsion"