| Book by Category | |  | E-Commerce | Home » » » Graphics on the Kindle (Book 1 of 4 of the "Graphics on the Kindle" Series) | | | | | | | Description: | | TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL EBOOK YOU NEED MORE THAN GOOD WRITING! You'll also need an eye-catching cover, not to mention special graphics on the inside that need to be prepared especially for the Kindle. GRAPHICS ON THE KINDLE is still the ONLY book on the market to give detailed step-by-step instructions to properly prepare your graphics for ebook use as well as viewing your photos/graphics as a slideshow on the Kindle. No long paragraphs of endless chatter or needless attempts at wit; just easy to understand, right to the point instruction sets making it easy to get right down to business! Learn how to edit photos and apply special effects specifically for Kindle-viewing to make your images look significantly better. You'll also learn how to use clip-art and graphical text elements to add extra visual power to your e-books. Lots of samples (photos of a few are above) for you to look at to see what your final results can look like. All that plus tech support (via email) for help with tweaking here and there! ATTENTION COMIC BOOK, COMIC STRIP AND GRAPHIC NOVEL CREATORS: Now available: FORMATTING COMICS FOR THE KINDLE, the 2nd book in this series. This book blasts open the door to a whole new market just waiting for you! Search for it on Amazon by name or just copy and paste in B001BDI2BE. Coming Soon: Book 3: FORMATTING CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR THE KINDLE. Watch this space for more details! | | | Product Details: | | | Average Customer Rating:
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A Must for Any Kindle Author or Publisher!Dec 07, 2008
This little booklet is a godsend! While I am no graphic artist (which should be obvious), I found the tips in Manuel's book to work absolutely flawlessly. I used Manuel's methods to make the cover for my book and it skated through Amazon's DTP on the first try.
Graphics on the Kindle is a "must read" for anyone publishing an ebook with the DTP platform. Thanks, Manuel!
David Emberson
Author, The Kindle Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
It works, and you don't have to have PhotoshopDec 07, 2008
Burgos' book is clear and straight forward. I used the specifications listed in the book to "Kindle-lize" the graphics for my novel, The Unselfish Gene. Being a somewhat experienced Photoshop user, I didn't need the step-by-step instructions, but I found it re-assuring the author included them. Even better, when I emailed Mr. Burgos prior to buying the book, I got a personal reply within 24 hours.
I've attached a photo showing one the graphic images from my novel as it actually appears on the Kindle -- thanks to this book.
And if you don't have Photoshop, I think you could squeak by with something like Infraview, which is available for free download. Also, there's GIMP, which is also free and ported for Vista now, but it has a fairly steep learning curve.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Small but UsefulAug 24, 2008
This is like many of the other Kindle books: small, not necessarily polished, but useful.
If you're an experienced Photoshop user, the book can be read in about an hour. It's about as long as one of the longer how-tos you find online. However, for a couple of bucks, it does provide what the title promises: an explanation of how to produce decent graphics for the Kindle.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful thingsMay 21, 2008
One of the wonderful things about the marketplace of the mind that is opened up by the Kindle and other new technologies is that it allows us to focus on the things that we choose, the things we know about, the things we want to learn about, the things that drive us, the things that we are passionate about. Which I suppose is a flowery way of saying that, when there are skills that we do not have, we can find others who have these skills, who share them with us in terrific little e-books like this one. Whether you want to learn how to have fun with graphics on your own Kindle or incorporate graphics into a Kindle document, Manuel Burgos is a great go-to guy to have on your side. I was so impressed with what I read in Graphics on the Kindle that I contacted Manuel and engaged him to help me with the cover design for the print-on-paper version of Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex: How Authors and Publishers Are Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies (... to Unleash an Indie Movement of Readers and Writers), and he did a wonderful job. I have no doubt that I will go back to him when it is time for a print-on-paper version of How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Other Cool Tricks: Read and Answer Email Anywhere, Anytime on the Amazing Amazon Kindle (The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle).
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NEWS FROM THE AUTHORApr 29, 2008
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ATTENTION COMIC BOOK, COMIC STRIP, AND GRAPHIC NOVEL CREATORS AND PUBLISHERS! Because you demanded it! Rare Arts is pleased to present its next title, Formatting Comics for the Kindle (Graphics on the Kindle). This second e-book of the "Graphics on the Kindle" series is the first to tackle the challenge of KINDLE E-COMICS! Check it out today!
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