With the launch of the Kindle DX and a new cut of London Voodoo, I thought I’d re-publish (for the Kindle) the anthology we put together for the movie’s original UK release. And here it is:
SIDE BAR: Kindle for iPhone
Note that if you don't have a Kindle, there is a Kindle iPhone app which works really well and you can sample some of the book for free.
Download the app and sign in. Then, when on Amazon, push the content to the phone.
Note too that you can listen free to Stepping Offby Mike Davis read by Doug "Hellraiser" Bradley by clicking here for the MP3 or here for the podcast in iTunes.
Continuing....
Ought to be straight-forward right? Well.. kinda but still took a bit of searching for information and trial & error. FYI I had my original document in Word 2007. So here’s my insight.
1. Go to Amazon’s Digital Text Platform at
http://dtp.amazon.com2. Create an account
3. Now you’ll see a screen like the picture below. It’s a three-stage process
4. Stage One: Enter the book details and upload the cover art
5. Stage Two: This is the trial and error part..
In Word 2007, go to Save As.. Other Formats.. and select Web Page. There are other web-formatting options but Web Page is the one I used most successfully.
Open the newly-created webpage – which is your book in HTML format – either in a web-editing program (I used Dreamweaver) or a basic text editor – you’re going to need to edit bits of code.
Each book section was marked with the code
<div class=SectionX>
where “X” was the section number E.g. <div class=Section2>.
Replace these lines with the Amazon custom tag
<mbp:section>
The other custom tag you may need is the one that forces a page break
<mbp:pagebreak />
Upload the HTML file and preview it using Amazon’s preview tool.
I found that there were too many blank lines. Well after all the anthology had been formatted for a different page size. That means deleting this code:
<p class=MsoBodyText><o:p> </o:p></p>
Then, the headers had too much space on the paragraph formatting.
If you go to a header you’ll notice something like this:
<h1><a name="_Toc151988948"><span lang=EN-GB>Stepping Off</span></a><span
lang=EN-GB> </span></h1>
The <h1> code is the heading format. You’ll need to search the start of the file in the style section to find where this defined. My file had this:
h1
{mso-style-update:auto;
mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-next:Normal;
margin-top:24.0pt;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:18.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;
page-break-before:always;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
page-break-after:avoid;
mso-outline-level:1;
font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
mso-font-kerning:0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;}
I went in and changed the margin-top to 12.0pt.
6. And that's the hard part over. Now you set a price, enter your tax and bank details so they know how to pay you and that's it.
