Kindle Book - "Amazon Kindle Kindles a Fire of Creativity" Self Published Author Describes His Success Story

Amazon.com is offering "Amazon Kindle Kindles a Fire of Creativity" for FREE  at Kindle Stores in United States and United Kingdom, Kindle-shop in Germany, Boutique Kindle in France, Tienda Kindle at Amazon Español and Kindle store in Italy. 

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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Amazon Caves In, Supports Endangered Cornish Language on Kindle by Publishing First Ever Cornish eBook

Amazon.com is not exactly one of the names you would think of when making a list of “companies working to preserve endangered languages.” After all, the company makes money through sheer sales volume, and a Kindle book written in an endangered language would translate to a very small market.

Recently, though, after catching a slew of unexpected bad press, Amazon caved in to incessant pressure from media and the public, and decided to publish a bilingual Kindle book, “Matthew and the Wellington Boots,” with its Cornish translation, “Matthew ha’n Eskisyow Glaw.”

Cornish, in case you did not know, is a minority language in the UK and is the primary language of just around 500 people in 2011. It is one of the 7,000 languages labeled “endangered” on the Catalogue of Endangered Languages. Certainly, it is not included in the very short list of languages supported by Amazon.com’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.

But Diglot Books, which published the bilingual children’s story, argued that the book was not written solely in Cornish anyway. “Our title was actually bilingual, and … the alphabet was the same as English, so there were no extra characters needed,” said Diglot director Alison O’Dornan.

Dornan also added that the Cornish translation of the book had been vetted for correctness by the Cornish Language Board.

Still, Amazon.com was not immediately convinced. It took the full force of social media, whose power Diglot harnessed, to compel the e-commerce giant to rethink its decision.

For O’Dornan, this victory is an important step in restoring some life into the dying Cornish language. “The key to truly reviving the language is clearly with the younger generation, and bilingual books are a fantastic way to achieve this as they are easily accessible to both parents and children alike,” she said.

Currently, “Matthew and the Wellington Boots” is available for download through iTunes and Kindle Store. At Amazon.com, two people have already given the Kindle book five-star reviews. Both reviews were written in Cornish, with English translations.