That Was Painless

Well, I did it. I created an e-book (okay, it's just a short story, but the process is the same) and uploaded it to the Kindle store. Don't go looking for it; Amazon says it may take up to 24 hours for it to appear on the store. Sometime soon, "Mom's Letter" should appear.

This is an experiment. I checked the e-book out and it seemed to format okay. It looks better with font size 2, since the lines of the embedded poem run to their full length. I priced it at $0.99, the minimum Kindle allows. The royalty is 35%, so for each one that sells I'll get almost 35 cents.

There were a lot of steps in this. Of course, part of that was the setting up of my account and entering all that information. I won't need to do that again. Part of it was being uncertain of what I was doing, and so having to read various instructions, some of them twice. One thing that concerns me is the cover may be a bit smaller than they recommend. I think they wanted 1280 pixels mimimum on the longest side. I read that as maximum, and the pic has only 1187 pixels on the long side. Since I don't know much about digital photos, I wasn't sure how to change that.

I still have to set up my author page. I'll do that after supper. I hope that won't be too lengthy, because I had hoped to work on expanding a couple of chapters of Documenting America. Maybe I won't be able to get to that tonight, but we'll see.

A new era has dawned in my life. Let's see what happens.