Kindle Publishing

I'm becoming more and more fascinated with ebooks, and the changes taking place in the world of publishing.  We've got the Amazon Kindle to thank for this.  This device was the game changer.

I do almost all of my reading now on my Kindle, and I don't like the idea of carrying around a book, not at all.

This is something that surprises me as I still love books, but I don't buy paper books anymore.  No way.  They take up too much space, are too heavy and cumbersome, and more or less are just a burden.

Ebooks are a different story.  I've got hundreds of them on my Kindle.  I can make notes, search, share, post, tweet, etc.  Digital books are interactive.

Lately I've been helping my mom out a lot, she's getting up there in years, and we spend a lot of time talking mainly about old family stories.  One of her big loves is reading, but also writing.  She's been keeping journals her whole life.  In them are more or less her life history, poems, stories, and the highs and lows of life.

So, I asked her if she'd be interested in publishing any of this in ebook format.  She was very interested, though the technology is just a bit too much for her.

She's game, so I've got to get up to speed on how to proceed with this project.

In the meantime, she now has a blog http://mafroggy.blogspot.com/ that she's been using to float some of her writing and see if there's an interest for it.

Between blogs and ebooks there world is wide open for people to tell their stories like never before.

I think it's great that we can get some of her work out there while she's still around.  She's thrilled, and that makes me happy.

I'd love to hear from folks who've got done the epublishing road.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Leave them as comments.

Publishing is now a fluid medium, and changing all the time.

We live in interesting times, for sure.