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I have an e-book up online for my wife over at Amazon, and it has been sitting on Amazon's Kindle press for sometime now with no sales.
Of course, it is the situation where they do not promote high traffic unless we give a larger percentage of sales over. Meanwhile, it literally just sits there unless someone peruses a category it is in or does a title search for it. A least that is how it seems.
I do better selling in person than online through a third-party such as Amazon (rights, licenses, royalties, legalese, etc.).
What I want is to just tell people to pay me directly and then download it from my web site using an encrypted link.
I think that the Kindle uses the MOBI format and the Nook uses the EPUB format. I am so out of the loop on technology, the learning curve seems daunting and deathly ill to me. So, here I am ... curious if anyone knows of how I can go about accomplishing such things and get closer to the curve than starting a million miles from it.
What I want to do is take my wife's books which are in .doc format and convert them to these other formats. However, I do not want to use an online converter. That seems to get me back into legalese. Perhaps it doesn't at all. It just seems that way to me.
I'd like to download a program or even get a paid for program to do this. That way I can do it offline as well. I guess I can, I mean.
This brings up another point. I do not know how an owner of a Kindle or a Nook would get these files working on their technology, but there must be a way. I own neither but perhaps should.
Well, lots to think about, I know.
Anyone out there who can point me in the way I should go?
Of course, it is the situation where they do not promote high traffic unless we give a larger percentage of sales over. Meanwhile, it literally just sits there unless someone peruses a category it is in or does a title search for it. A least that is how it seems.
I do better selling in person than online through a third-party such as Amazon (rights, licenses, royalties, legalese, etc.).
What I want is to just tell people to pay me directly and then download it from my web site using an encrypted link.
I think that the Kindle uses the MOBI format and the Nook uses the EPUB format. I am so out of the loop on technology, the learning curve seems daunting and deathly ill to me. So, here I am ... curious if anyone knows of how I can go about accomplishing such things and get closer to the curve than starting a million miles from it.
What I want to do is take my wife's books which are in .doc format and convert them to these other formats. However, I do not want to use an online converter. That seems to get me back into legalese. Perhaps it doesn't at all. It just seems that way to me.
I'd like to download a program or even get a paid for program to do this. That way I can do it offline as well. I guess I can, I mean.
This brings up another point. I do not know how an owner of a Kindle or a Nook would get these files working on their technology, but there must be a way. I own neither but perhaps should.
Well, lots to think about, I know.
Anyone out there who can point me in the way I should go?
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Of course! Nothing simpler. Just have to ask the right question(s) to get the answers you want. There is a SUPERB ebook manager/converter called "Calibre" that was created by a Russian guy which is free and open-source. It supports the following types (AZW3, CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, OEB, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, and TXTZ).
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I'll second the recommendation for Calibre - and the three formats I'd worry about working best are MOBI (Kindle), EPUB (just about every other eReader...), and PDF.
As for how someone gets the book to their device, most eReaders will connect to a Mac/PC and allow you to copy the files over as if they were removable storage. Some even have a way to email the file to your device.
As for handling the sales, depending on the nature of the book there may be other online stores that you could sell through and use a central website to direct traffic to Amazon and the others (Apple/iBooks and Google Play Books come to mind). That way you can divert all your energy into promoting the central website for the book and let Amazon/Apple/Google/etc. handle the selling, syncing, etc.
Sure they take their cut, but it's a lot easier on you and you can focus on selling the main website.
As for how someone gets the book to their device, most eReaders will connect to a Mac/PC and allow you to copy the files over as if they were removable storage. Some even have a way to email the file to your device.
As for handling the sales, depending on the nature of the book there may be other online stores that you could sell through and use a central website to direct traffic to Amazon and the others (Apple/iBooks and Google Play Books come to mind). That way you can divert all your energy into promoting the central website for the book and let Amazon/Apple/Google/etc. handle the selling, syncing, etc.
Sure they take their cut, but it's a lot easier on you and you can focus on selling the main website.
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Awesome! Thank you guys so much!
I am out of town at the moment, but I will download Calibre and see what I can figure out!
I am out of town at the moment, but I will download Calibre and see what I can figure out!
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Did I forget to mention how awesome you all are?!
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No you didn't, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it.