In "Amazon Kindle Kindles a fire of creativity", which is at top sales rank in its category at the time of this writing, the author describes how he was inspired by Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing to self publish his stories and his initial success. This book which is written in a humorous style can be downloaded for Free for next 12 hours at Amazon.com.
The latest edition of Kindle (tm), dubbed Kindle Fire is an hybrid eBook and entertainment device rolled in one. Kindle Fire was one of the coolest, most sort after high-tech Christmas gift. Most people look at Kindle(tm) as a device which had simplified reading books, listening to music and with Kindle Fire(tm), watching videos.
But one of the benefit which is frequently overlooked is how Kindle has eliminated the middlemen in the publishing process - Thanks to Kindle Direct Publishing - a gifted author can directly upload a manuscript using Kindle Publishing and voila, a new book is available to readers. By simplifying the publishing process and bringing it to reach of the average user, Amazon Kindle (tm) has revolutionized the process of publishing.
Here is an excerpt from this eBook:
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With self-publishing, I get to choose when my books get published. Heck, in ebook format, I even get to choose when it gets republished, in revised format. Amid all this talk about self-published books being poorly edited, the ebook platform actually allows books to be better edited, because they can be modified after the readers (not the editors) have given their feedback.
I get to choose, too, how my books get marketed. Oh yes, contrary to what some writers may think, once you get your book published, you can’t just leave it to fare for itself in the big wide wonderful world. No, you need to help it out, market it, through blog posts, SEO, promotions, etc. It’s just something you gotta learn to do.
By combining Internet marketing with self-publishing, I was able to get my ebook to best-selling status in its category and at the top of the "Hot New Releases" list within a few weeks. As you can see below in the Amazon KDP screen shot, 5,355 copies of my ebook "Inside the Giant Machine: Confessions of aFormer Amazon.com Technologist" were downloaded in the last week of January alone. (Net includes adjustment for any returns.)
My second best-selling ebook, "The Inferno: An Eyewitness Account of San Diego on Fire," was downloaded a net of 1,670 times in that week.
And the above sales are just at the US Kindle Store. Several hundred copies of the English edition were also sold at Kindle Store in UK, and of the German translation “Im Inneren der Gigantischen Maschine: Eine Amazon.com Story,” at the Kindle-Shop at Amazon.de.
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