
Also, despite a wider range of sophisticated colour e-readers, the Apple iPad remains a more suitable device for colour, heavily illustrated and enhanced e-books.Ĭonfused? Put it this way. Amazon might dominate the e-reader market, but the format of choice for most other device manufacturers is e-Pub. This remains both Amazon’s greatest strength and weakness.
KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING REVIEW SOFTWARE
That’s a pretty powerful global reach for any authors, and yet at the heart of Kindle software is mobi a series of file formats developed by Mobipocket (owned by Amazon since 2005) to develop the software for Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, web-based Cloud Reader and for the Kindle reading apps for Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Phone, PC and Mac. Since 2007, the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform is available to authors in many countries including USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia and Japan, and the supporting Kindle store market now stretches beyond 100 countries. It was clear even back then Amazon saw the Kindle experience as both a facilitator for readers and author/publishers. Amazon had also just launched the first Kindle e-reader hardware-a basic e-ink, black and white text device. Amazon launched Kindle Direct Publishing back in 2007 in beta form and pitched it initially to ‘publishers’ via marketing emails. Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has established itself as the single most recognisable DIY self-publishing platform for authors wanting to publish their books in e-book.
