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Print on Demand
Self Publishing

Lulu, iTunes, Kindle, Nook, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Beyond

Formatting E-Book (with images) for Distribution through Amazon's Kindle

Step 1. Sign up to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Service.

Step 2. Complete Amazon's Taxation requirements

Step 3. Start creating your "bookshelf". To do this you need a cover for your book and the content in one of the acceptable formats which includes ePub.

Uploading the ePubs which were distributed through Lulu worked fine for 3 of the 5 books.

• When the fourth book was uploaded it identified several possible spelling errors. With the option to correct or ignore.

• When the fifth book was uploaded it gave an error message:
  "The file you uploaded failed our virus scan. Please scan your computer for viruses, re-save the file, and try your upload again."

  Downloading and running KindleGen v2.9 revealed errors in several hyperlinks. However, fixing these still did not get past the "virus checker".

  single quote (apostrophies) including in the title of the book, were replaced with the apos html code but the message about a virus still persisted. Using the apostrophe, rather than the code, generated a virus message.

  Tried uploading an epub with just the html files - this worked

  Tried uploading an epub with some of the images - this worked

  Tried uploading an epub with all images - the message about the virus reappeared

  Tried removing the files with long names (greater than 31 characters) - the message about the virus reappeared

  Tried with files with long names - this worked

  In the end there was one image file which seemed to be causing the problem. Though there was no other evidence of this file containing a virus - other software including kindlegen opened the file ok

Tips

1. The mobi (Amazon (mobi) version of eBook) could be pre-viewed through a Kindle simulator or downloaded and viewed on the kindle device which pluggs into the USB port and appears as a disk.

2. Avoid "&" in file names. Images with containing an "&" did not display properly.
3. The mobi version contained the cover page. It is useful to include the backcover in the epub.

According to Amazon, the Kindle eBooks should be available in under 10 hours see paperbacks and kindle books by Marghanita da Cruz on Amazon

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