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Originally Posted by neilmarr
But, sadly, it will sell hugely at Christmas anyway because of the inevitable media hype.
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Yes, although Amazon is providing genuine value to consumers (readers) - it is not all hype.
Small publishers and authors have to get with the program, there is no fighting Amazon and there is tons of money to be made. For example, your ebooks are PDFs. If you don't have a MOBI version then all those Australian Kindles will pass on your ebooks. Also, you should seriously consider Amazon's DTP. The return is only 35% (of
list price, so one strategy is to increase the list price modestly), but the market is so much larger than you would otherwise have. The default DTP contract is world-wide non-exclusive, but it can be limited geographically if you want.
Calibre can probably produce a MOBI from your PDFs, perhaps with some tweaking. I have also heard good things about Book Designer for PDF conversion, however Calibre will add "waypoints" for the Kindle in its MOBIs. Also, if Calibre produces good MOBIs it will also produce good ePubs - for all the non-Kindle EInk readers.