How to submit calibre ebook to kindle?

[cowboyss]

Lazer, thanks for all the tips, I will try them if mobi doesn't work

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by cowboyss

I use a mac and used calibre to create a mobi format.
What is the next steps to upload to Kindle to sell as an ebook on their site?
Thanks in advance

Do potential buyers a favor, read the Kindle publishing guidelines, buy Joshua Talent's "Kindle Formatting" and learn some HTML. Calibre is fine for converting generating books for yourself but it is not designed as an authoring tool. You won't be able to produce the best quality results with it.

Amazon provides free tools for building and previewing Kindle ebooks for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Use those instead of calibre or Mobipocket Creator.

[cowboyss]

Thanks Tom, I just found kindle free tools yesterday

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by amoroso

I seem to have read that a recent Calibre version addressed this issue by adding appropriate room to Mobi files.

From the Calibre 0.7.56 [17 Apr, 2011] release notes:

MOBI Output: Ensure that MOBI files always have 8KB worth of null bytes at the end of record 0. This appears to be necessary for Amazon to be able to add DRM to calibre generated MOBI files sent to their publishing service.

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by DreamWriter

Here's the direct link to the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines in PDF format: http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/Am...Guidelines.pdf.

Thanks for the download link.