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www.amazon.com/dp/B008DWFZ2K

I'm just happy they stopped charging $68 for making your book available as a Kindle. As nice as Smashwords has been, just having both the paperback and the Kindle in one place is pretty awesome, I think!!



(Still hemming and hawing about publishing your book? There are no longer any excuses!! Go to CreateSpace and get busy!)

Congratulations Deer. I see you have some excellent reviews! Wish I could write fiction - goodness knows I have amassed plenty of background material over the years. Still, one can't do everything Must put yours on my list to buy (paperback).

Congrats Deer!

Just picked up a copy. It is number 4 on my summer reading list. Thanks for the suggestion, Deer.

Sweet!! Thanks for putting me in the TBR, Doc.

And I have GOT to get my next book in process, but I'm doing a ton of writing for my job right now.

Mazel Tov, deer!

deer of the dawn wrote:www.amazon.com/dp/B008DWFZ2K

I'm just happy they stopped charging $68 for making your book available as a Kindle. As nice as Smashwords has been, just having both the paperback and the Kindle in one place is pretty awesome, I think!!



(Still hemming and hawing about publishing your book? There are no longer any excuses!! Go to CreateSpace and get busy!)

Congrats!

Who has been trying to charge you $68 to publish a Kindle version? Kindle Direct Publishing does it for free. Is it because you're not in the US?

congrats deer!

Congrats!

Nice one, Deer!

aliantha wrote:
Who has been trying to charge you $68 to publish a Kindle version? Kindle Direct Publishing does it for free. Is it because you're not in the US?

When I first published BBW last year, they wanted $68 to make it available as a Kindle on Amazon. I was broke, so I put the e-book version on Smashwords. I don't know when KDP started doing it for free, but I just became aware of it.

deer of the dawn wrote:

aliantha wrote:
Who has been trying to charge you $68 to publish a Kindle version? Kindle Direct Publishing does it for free. Is it because you're not in the US?

When I first published BBW last year, they wanted $68 to make it available as a Kindle on Amazon. I was broke, so I put the e-book version on Smashwords. I don't know when KDP started doing it for free, but I just became aware of it.

That's crazy. I did notice this year that when I put "Seized" up at CreateSpace, they were pushing me hard at the end of the process to publish a Kindle version, too. I bailed out of the hard sell because I already had a Kindle version, which I'd published through KDP before I reformatted the book for the paperback version.

I wonder whether the $68 wasn't for the CreateSpace design team to reformat the paperback as an e-book. But if you've already got an e-book file that Smashwords will accept, you don't have to do that -- you can just take out all the Smashwords references and put it up at KDP for free.

Anyway, the cheering still stands!

That's just what I did, except they want you to save the doc as html for some reason; but the format was already in place so I just changed the copyright page and it was good to go.