At long last!  The third and FINAL part to our Kindle Tutorial Trilogy of Terror! (no, seriously, try it, it’s terrifying…*shiver*…)

You can read PART 1: OPTIMIZING THE IMAGES by CLICKING HERE

You can read PART 2: THE HTML DOC by CLICKING HERE

So now you’ve put together your images, your text, and wrapped it all up in a nice HTML bow.  Time to put this puppy up and online for Amazon shoppers everywhere to buy it!  How best to go about it?  Are there any tips you should know about?  And, heck, how exactly does publishing content on the Kindle store work?

Digital Text Platform

You’ll need to sign up for a “DTP” account – the DIGITAL TEXT PLATFORM is Amazon’s special platform for publishers (independent or otherwise).

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UPDATE: We’ve updated the info below to better reflect the current Amazon/Kindle marketplace.

LAST UPDATED 10/26/09

Time for a handy-dandy tutorial on adapting comics for the Kindle!

The Lowdown

Anyone can sign up to publish books on the Kindle. Just register an account at Amazon’s Digital Text Platform site, and then you’re ready to begin uploading your finished Kindle-adapted product!

Er…whoops, how does someone adapt a comic for the Kindle? Just resize some pages and submit?

Wouldn’t that be nice. No, alas, there’s lots to know, and a plethora of misinformation bread-crumbed across the internet to confuse the issue as much as it possibly could be. But here’s the full skinny as it currently stands with optimizing for the Kindle 2 device, and we’ll additionally touch upon the possibilities of adapting for the DX and First Generation devices as we go.

Zip file with HTML

The final file for uploading to Amazon should be a ZIP file, containing all the images/pages of the comic, alongside an HTML document included inside the zip, informing Amazon the order and style in which the contents will be displayed.

We’ll go over the HTML in detail in part 2 of this tutorial series, but for now, let’s focus on optimizing the images.

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