Tag: mobi

Top 10 of the greatest books to read before you die – and they are free…

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I’ve got my librarian’s hat on for this post. To celebrate the publication of my A Simpler Guide to Finding Free eBooks, I decided at 1 in the morning to write a post about the top 10 books to read before you die that are available for free. Little did I know it would take hours to compile and format! Still, the list below are novels you should at least take a look at with links to Amazon and the Gutenberg Project. While you can only get Kindle versions from…

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Republishing with KDP – Customers don’t automatically get changes.

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I’ve had a few problems moving from one edition of my Gmail book to another. I didn’t want to delete the other one as it sold well and was highly ranked. I would have to start from scratch. I tried putting a message in the original book to people who already bought it offering them the new one. I was expecting them to refund the book and get the new one. Turns out they weren’t getting the changes! The reason I didn’t want to keep the old edition because the name was…

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Indie Publishing on Kindle – Part One

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This post is for Ricardo from G+, who asked me to blog about this. :0). I’ve published a few books on Kindle. While it won’t make you rich (unless you are very lucky) it will give you an enormous feeling of satisfaction for making someone happy or just helping a stranger who would find your books useful. So what did I do? First I came up with something I felt I could write about. I love my Android phone and was always trying out apps so I had my idea.…

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Ways to read ebooks on your computer (PC or Mac) – for when you don’t have a Kindle or iPad

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Having recently done a Member Giveaway of  my ebook, Children of the Elementi, I sent emails with the book attached in the Kindle and epub formats. I was surprised that not everyone knew about Kindle for PC or Mac, so I thought I would do a brief post about the various ways to read an ebook on your computer. Kindle Apps The best software for reading Mobi files is always going to be using the Kindle software but there are several different versions. Go to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (whichever is…

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