I've converted lots of etext to Kindle format. Between Project Gutenberg and Archive.org, I've found many of the literature books for my classes. A few formatting codes later, I've got books for my Kindle for class.
One of my books from last semester, "As I Lay Dying" by Faulkner was quite a challenge, the paper version and the etext. The prof. suggested we mark where each change of narrator happened and use that as "chapters" for discussion purposes. So I made my Kindle book show each "chapter" and did a table of contents, etc. And it's now for sale in the Kindle store for $1.00 - or it will be in 1 minute to 48 hours of Amazon processing.
There are a few formatting codes for Kindle books I can't figure out, but it works better than some of the Kindle books I've paid several dollars for. I've heard that people can make more money off selling a book for $1 than the same book at a higher price. So I'll see how much I make off this book.
I'm thinking of creating a book containing papers and creative writing I did for some classes and selling it too. Most of it ran through "turn it in" so anyone trying to copy it will hit that wall. Let's see how this experiment goes first.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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