If so, I think the company has succeeded to a large extent. By offering this free alternative to other, more expensive software, Amazon might be aiming to keep authors within its marketplace and discourage them from “going wide”. I can’t help but get the impression that Amazon designed Kindle Create with Vellum and similar products in mind. Conversion software such as Calibre claims to automate the conversion process, but I’ve seldom found an Amazon-sourced MOBI file (even without digital rights management code embedded) that converts easily and fully, without problems. If you want to “go wide” and publish your work in other formats, through other vendors, you’re going to have some serious issues. Obviously, this only prepares manuscripts for ’s MOBI e-book format. My descriptions will necessarily be brief, due to lack of space and time, but I hope you’ll learn enough to be able to assess them for your own needs.įirst, let’s look at Kindle Create. I thought you might be interested in my experiences thus far. I decided that, for this trilogy, I’d like to spread my wings a little so I’ve been experimenting with two such programs, Amazon’s Kindle Create (free) and 180g’s Vellum (free to download and try, but $199 for the e-book edition only and $249 for e-book and print editions). Over the past couple of years, publication software has come a long way, making the preparation process easier and more sophisticated. It did an adequate job, but nothing special. Until now, I’ve simply imported my word processor files to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and let its in-house conversion software prepare them for publication. “ The Stones of Silence” will (hopefully) come out next week “ An Airless Storm” will follow in June and the final volume, “ The Pride of the Damned“, will be published in July. I’m in the final stages of preparing the first book of my new military science fiction trilogy, Cochrane’s Company, for publication.
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