Check Out Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) For Your Ebooks

Over at the Classic Horror Film Board, the question concerning converting magazines (such as Famous Monster of Filmland) into digital ebooks has come up.

As has been stated by USA Today's David Colton, digital publishing formats (or platforms) are not created equal.  That's putting it mildly.

I had no plans to have The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan available as an ebook until several people asked in forums if I was going to do so.  I then looked into it and tried several ebook conversion companies. What I found during this process was that the programs to convert were "awfully damn picky and complicated."  On top of that, the operators were not helpful to people trying to make it through the process.  It seemed that they had no interest in making money.

I was about to give up on the idea until I decided to give Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) a try.

Well, to make a long story short (and sweet), not only did my .pdf file of the travel guide sail through easily, the folks at KDP were very helpful.  On top of that, I had the backing of Amazon's promotional machine so that advertisements for the travel guide began to pop up all over the Internet (samples shown with this blog post).

Today, I received KDP's emailed newsletter which included the following "Tip of the Month," which is on the topic of uploading content.

They wrote:

Tip of the Month
Uploading Content 

Have KDP lets you convert your content from several formats. For best results, we recommend that you upload your content in either Microsoft Word or HTML format. 

KDP accepts the following formats:

Zipped HTML (.zip)
Word (.doc and .docx)
ePub (.epub)
Adobe PDF (.pdf)
Plain Text (.txt)
MobiPocket (.mobi and .prc)

For more information on KDP accepted formats, click here.


If you are planning to publish an ebook, you may want to check out Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.  They do a great job and they will also save you from a lot of headaches.