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Old 10-02-2011, 02:58 PM   #1
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MOBI Kindle question
I am new here. This is not a re-post. I was told to post here instead of the "welcome" area.


I am trying to sell my e-book on amazon.com (Kindle). They ask for an HTML version of my book. I'm having trouble with that as it is not WYSIWIG and not sure if it will look right in the end.

I have software that can convert PDF or Word into MOBI or other e-friendly formats.

Does anyone know the BEST way to upload an e-book to sell on amazon Kindle?

Also, should MOBI file be many files?
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Old 10-03-2011, 12:28 AM   #2
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It's pretty easy.

1) Download Mobipocket Creator (it's free from Mobipocket.com.)

2) Save your file as .html (just save normally so you have an untouched backup, then hit "Save as..." in your word processing program and save as .html

3) Open up Mobipocket Creator and click "Import From Existing File" and choose .html

4) I usually make a .prc because that's what was recommended to me.

5) Upload right to Amazon. They'll convert it to their format. Check it over and you're done.

Plus, once you have it as a .prc, you can use Calibre or something to convert it right to an .epub
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Old 10-03-2011, 06:40 AM   #3
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The other alternative is to make an epub (there is a WYSIWYG editor called Sigil for that, it will import html files), then use Kindlegen (on Amazon's publishing page) to convert that epub into a mobil file.

Mobipocket Creator is something of a nightmare to use, IMHO.
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In what way? I find it very user-friendly, personally. What aspects of it do you find nightmarish?
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TOC creation isn't particularly intuitive, especially if you want to use images as your chapter titles. And the error messages you get when a build fails don't really tell you why (or at least not in a way that I understand, and I work with html in my real job).
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Thank you! I will check all of this out.
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TOC creation isn't particularly intuitive, especially if you want to use images as your chapter titles. And the error messages you get when a build fails don't really tell you why (or at least not in a way that I understand, and I work with html in my real job).
OK. I guess that I haven't noticed that, because I don't make errors .
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