You may also consider making it available on the more popular Stanza (very nice iPhone app), see:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/02/stanza-kindle-iphone-tech-personal-cx_ag_ja_1002stanza.html <<IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle Andy Greenberg and James Erik Abels, 10.02.08, 02:45 PM EDT Free app Stanza has more people reading books on iPhones than on Amazon's Kindle e-reader....>> Michel 2009/1/31 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > If anyone has a Kindle electronic reader gadget, please contact me. I am > thinking of reformatting my book and uploading it in that format. This turns > out to be a lot of work. > > I can get a Kindle in about a month, but at the moment they are out of stock > because Amazon is going to introduce a new model. > > I do not need a Kindle to reformat and upload the book, but it might help if > someone who has one could download and review, and perhaps give me a few > pointers. For example: Is it a good idea to include hyperlinks to web pages > and documents in the text? What happens if you click on one? Nothing, I > assume. > > The Kindle upload section has a Kindle emulator for a computer, which is > supposed to show how the book will look. I do not trust emulators. > > The documentation for preparing and uploading Kindle formatted documents is > inadequate, even for an old-fashioned programmer like me who is used to > working with specifications on the back of an envelope. The Kindle native > format is rudimentary HTML. They do not even support tables. They could have > done a better job. See: > > http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/index.jspa > > - Jed > >
