My First Foray in Amazon Ebook Publishing

 

well, my first foray into Amazon ebook publishing:  anomaly (2001, by Mary Evans) is now available on Amazon (for $2.99):

http://www.amazon.com/anomaly-improbable-memoir-stories-ebook/dp/B00B5I7JUK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1359129075&sr=1-1

interestingly, i don't even get a free download of my own book.  all i could do (for free) is download a sample.  the format came out OK, but not great.  Amazon's conversion process inserted (small) line breaks between my paragraphs; and they indented the first line of *every* paragraph, while the original HTML document i supplied them with had *no* indents in the first paragraph in a chapter or after an inserted empty line (which is the format i prefer).

but when i had converted the HTML *myself* (with the free software Calibre), i could set it to remove spacing between paragraphs and to leave the original paragraph indents untouched.  so with my free software, i was able to produce a better looking Kindle document than Amazon!  a little disappointing.  oh well . . . at least i'll get some royalties now.  :-D