On one of my Linkedin groups, Books and Writers, there's an ongoing discussion on how to publish online, and apparently, there's no shortage of people trying to separate you from your money. I gave all these sites a once over, decided to go with Kindle Amazon or KDB, downloaded a free software, Mobi Creator, and set about writing, proofing, editing my two books, and whoa, it was labor intensive.
But! I know how to do it!
I spent the last year sending out query letters to literary agents and publishers, the ones that will still take queries from non published authors, and got many, many, many
'sweet nothings' or if I did get a reply, it was sorry, no can do...so, I can count on one finger, the agents who actually read my book, only to reject it.
Well, that's labor intensive, so now, I'm jumping online to self publish, and took baby steps last year when I published, Job Shark, on Smashwords.
Next! I'm going straight to the market winner, Amazon, who recently introduced their own self pub, KDP.
But here's their page on what to do if you are clueless and not so much the digirati...
Professional Conversion Services
Professional conversion services are available to publishers seeking help with the adjustment to self-publishing and eBook integration.Below is a list of companies that specialize in eBook conversion services.
Create Space
CreateSpace: A leader in on-demand publishing and part of the Amazon group of companies, CreateSpace now offers Kindle conversion services!
Aptara
Aptara: Aptara provides a variety of eBook services including eBook creation and content conversion in all eBook formats.
Booknook
Booknook: Specializing in the affordable creation of ebooks, both fiction and non-fiction, for all platforms from Word, PDF, Text and other input file types.
Digital Media Initiatives
Digital Media Initiatives: Where complete automation is not possible, Digital Media Initiatives undertakes manual conversion of print books to ePub format and other popular formats.
IT GLOBAL
IT Global Solution- Office Conversion Partner for Amazon’s Mobipocket file format: IT Global Solution can help you with all of your data conversion services.
Innodata
Innodata Isogen: Innodata Isogen is promoted as the industry’s leading provider of eBook services to major publishers and leading eBook device makers such as Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Sony.
Smart Site
Smart Site: Smart Site provides ebook conversions for Kindle and Mobipocket. Reasonable fees-fast turnaround!
Silver Chair
SilverChair: SilverChair specializes in medical content and develops high-value, information-critical products for the health care community.
Kreutizfeldt
Kreutzfeldt Electronic Publishing: Offers conversion services for German and English reference content. (Web site is in German)
Leer
Leer-e S.L.: Leer-e offers conversion of digital formats, scanning, translation and a complete range of publishing services including Mobipocket and POD. (Web site is in Spanish)
Note: Amazon does not endorse or recommend any one company over the other. Promotional copy is credited to the respective company and modified to suit this page.
Note: Perish Publishing does not endorse or recommend any of the above companies, but these are listed on the Amazon site. I, personally, use the free download of Mobi creator...
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