OUR SERVICES [NOW UPDATED]
When we started our service in July 2010, we assumed that most authors would have already rendered their actual book to Kindle format but might be looking for help to make Promotional [Product] Covers. Alas we were wrong, and although we had BUNDLED in a Formatting Service [just in case], it NOW appears that many authors need the Formatting Service MORE than the Cover Service.
So we have UNBUNDLED the Cover Service and the Formatting Service, meaning you can select EITHER or BOTH.
But there's more folks [and no it's not steak knives]. We have now entered into the marketing aspect of Kindle Books and offer a full web site for your individual book.
So here is the Web Service
COVER SERVICE - $39.95
On the Left is an example of the startpoint, supplied by you or created by us, which is termed "Roadkill" because it is as flat and boring as the Coyote in RoadRunner after the steamroller has passed over him [as it does quite often], and on the Right is the transformation into a magnificent representation of an actual BOOK [our book, as it happens] .
However, by some cathartic reverse osmosis of the expression "never give a sucker an even break", most folk seem to WANT to use the Roadkill, so their book might remain hidden amongst all the other boring titles.
But Darwinian Natural Selection says if you are here then you actually WANT to sell your book - Correct? So let's push on and put such silliness aside.
This image shows the actual size of the various other images in the Kindle System, and please be aware that Roadkill will see Kindle add white strips on either side. In other words, all images will be square, so if you don't FILL the square with YOUR content then Kindle will just add boring white.
NEW FOR 2012
Amazon has put a fly in the ointment starting 2012 by using the same Cover Image for both Product Image and Inside Cover Image [as long as you leave box ticked at Upload Item 4].
This means that all Images uploaded at Item 4 must be Roadkill, so what to do with our 3-D image service?
Well we were about to increase the price of our service given the amount of work involved, so have decided to keep price the same for basic service which is now the Roadkill only.
But Amazon still allows [and in fact Promotes] Customer Images, where the 3-D Front covers are still most helpful in enhancing your Product Page, plus a 3-D Rear page with the book's description. So we do that for an added $30 [we will send you an email invoice but you need to tell us up front you want this Add-On service].
Or Click below to take a look at our Amazon Gallery of covers, as "Customer Images"
FORMAT SERVICE - $75.00
The reason people have problems formatting for Kindle would seem to be because of two very similar "contradictions". But whatever, while we expound on these reasons below, our SOLUTION is to simply offer a service where WE take all the pain away and format it FOR you.
But to briefly explain the contradictions, Kindle uses a form of html but most people write their book in a Word Processor, usually MS Word, SO somewhere in the middle the twain must meet, and therein lies the problem.
Contradiction #1 is that in order for certain Word type styles [eg toc1, toc2, heading1, heading2, normal etc] to automatically render to Kindle, one must first have a good understanding of USING styles in Word [and most people don't, because they use Word as a glorified WYSIWYG typewriter], but then one must FORGET 90% of the styles because Kindle does not render them.
Contradiction #2 is that in order to "tidy up" an html file which has been "converted" by whatever process from Word etc, one must first have a good understanding of html, but similarly one must then FORGET 90% of html [eg tables, CSS, frames etc] as Kindle does not use them.
Sounds totally moronic? Well, in a way, yes, but that is the only way it can work. However, as we say, all of that is OUR "problem", but in fact is not much of a problem as we have 20 years experience in Word and 15 years experience in html and every day we "LEARN more about what we have to UNLEARN". So yes it IS moronic, but please simply leave it there, and be thankful you have found a service that understands these contradictions.
PLEASE READ The "small print"
We started this format service in good faith that people would at least loosely follow the Amazon Guide regarding the use of Normal Style etc in Word. For those that did, we were able to format their book at $39.95 [INCLUDING RRF] and still maintain our sanity, but others sent their "War and Peace" [breaking all the Rules of the Guide] and taking us a week to get it to Kindle Format.
So we have done two things. Firstly we have increased the price to $75 [ie 50% of the only other format service that divulges their price] and secondly inserted a caveat to the effect that if, after inspecting a book file, it transpires that the author is really after a "Cheap Editing Service" [where asking price from Editing Companies is about $1,000], then we reserve the right to refund any monies and/or contract a price commensurate with the task.
Or, read about our exclusive formatting features of:
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WEB SITE
Our latest feature is a fully hosted website for your book.
Please visit the site FlipPage Web Site