Were you aware how many Kindle books are given a negative review because of poor formatting? Lots of Kindle authors inadvertently make a mistake with their formatting and it’s really damaging when some points it out in a review.

It’s all very well if your content is great, but if it doesn’t look right I can guarantee someone will write a bad review of your book. And getting a negative review on your Kindle book is not only painful but can be costly too.

Why Good Kindle Formatting Matters…

Incorrect formatting will result in complaints which can decimate your book sales because people take bad reviews seriously. So it will pay you to make sure everything about your Kindle e-book is just right. In fact many of the damaging reviews which Kindle books get are due to bad formatting by the author. And just one bad review, especially on a new book, will really damage your sales.

You might have been regularly selling 10 copies a day, and then all of a sudden you see that sales have dropped to one or two  a day – or maybe none. Therefore you go to the sales page for your Kindle book, and you see, right at the top, a 2-star or 1-star review and something like… “The formatting was dreadful”.

And then you see more poor reviews saying “how can Amazon allow something like this to be uploaded”? Once that happens your sales of your Kindle book will drop like a stone.

Immediately your average review is significantly lower, and nobody even comes to the sales page. If it’s your FIRST review, how many people do you think will buy a book whose average rating is 1?

Kindle Formatting Can Be A Pain

Fortunately, it isn’t that hard to get the formatting right, if you really know how to format a Word document, and convert it to the format Amazon needs, and hope that nothing has been lost in the translation.

That’s easier said than done.

The problem for most new Kindle authors is that it is tricky to get the formatting just right… and it really can be a big headache if you don’t know how.

Formatting can take hours of your precious time to get right, hours when you could be writing your next book, or marketing the one you have.

Let’s face it, formatting with Word, and getting a good looking table of contents with active links to the different chapters isn’t something that most people do every day. Of course, you can pay someone to do it for you which can add up to a lot of money if you publish for the Kindle regularly, so it makes financial sense to do the formatting yourself.

Fortunately there is an easy solution for you.

It’s called the Kinstant Formatter, and might be the answer to your formatting woes.

Before Kinstant Formatter, the process went like this:

1. Download software like Calibre and install
2. Open the Word document
3. Convert to filtered HTML
4. Run Calibre
5. Load the document and cover
6. Have Calibre create a mobi file
7. Upload to Amazon

Now all you have to do for perfect formatting is this…

1. Upload Word document and cover image to a web form
2. Download  mobi file
3. Upload mobi file to Amazon

What used to be a 7 step process becomes 3 easy ones.

What used to take an hour becomes 2 minutes.

Visit The Kinstant Formatter Website

Not only that, if when previewing the finished product, you see something you’d like to change, you save time again.  Kinstant Formatter also is very forgiving because it can help you correct the errors that Amazon doesn’t like.

For example, it creates the table of contents for you.  It strips out extra blank lines, tabs, bullets, etc., if you want it to.  What this means is that when your Kindle book finally goes on sale, there will be no nasty surprises with the formatting.

If you are considering writing for the Kindle, then Kinstant Formatter can help you avoid all your formatting problems. It’s a simple process that helps you save money and all the headaches of getting your Kindle book formatted correctly.

Ask yourself this question…

Do you really want to take the risk that all the work involved in publishing your Kindle book will come to nothing because of just one or two bad reviews due to poor formatting?

Check out Kinstant Formatter now >>>

Its main selling feature is its capability as a wireless reading device which can download and store approximately 3500 titles. The Kindle provides users with access to a variety of books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and even Wikipedia articles.

The good news is that the latest versions of the Kindle are much cheaper and much better than the original and here are a few reasons why.

Kindle At A Glance

• All-New, High-Contrast E Ink Screen – 50% better contrast with latest E Ink Pearl technology
• Read in Bright Sunlight – No glare
• New and Improved Fonts – New crisper, darker fonts
• Sleek New Design – 21% smaller body but with the same 6″ size reading area
• 17% Lighter – Only 8.5 ounces, weighs less than a paperback
• Battery Life of Up to One Month – A single charge lasts up to one month with wireless off
• Double the Storage – Up to 3,500 books
• Built-In Wi-Fi – Download books in less than 60 seconds
• 20% Faster Page Turns – Seamless reading
• Enhanced PDF Reader – With dictionary lookup, notes, and highlights
• Browse the web over Wi-Fi (experimental)

Due to the amazing amount of features listed above the Kindle is ideal for people who travel frequently or simply do not have the room or desire to purchase actual books. Don’t take my word for it though. Thousands of people have decided to buy a Kindle and then given their honest opinions of it which you can read by clicking the link below.

Read Kindle Reviews Here…

Even though there are quite a few other e-book readers for sale in today’s market, the Kindle really stands out because it offers exclusive features.

A few of its specific features include Amazon.com instant book downloads, and electronic display that really looks like paper,lots of newspapers on the US domestic and international level, lightweight portability at only 8.5 ounces, a battery that can last up to one month on a single, full charge, and emailing capabilities for pictures and Word documents.

With a Kindle in your hand, you can read the news as it is released and read lots of your favourite books while travelling without the hassle of carrying all that weight.

There are so many positive things and very few downsides to the Kindle ebook reader and thanks to recent price drops you will now pay a lot less than when it first hit the market and get a lot more for your money as well.

The Kindle is selling like hotcakes and many millions have been sold as of January 2011, which is not surprising as the Kindle is a great little ebook reader.

If you would like to find out more about the Kindle before purchase just read some kindle reviews and then find out what it can do and just how little it costs here…

Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, with New E Ink Pearl Technology

It has taken them a couple of years to get their act together but at long last Sony Corp have realized the potential, and the massive market, of the wireless reading device. The soon to be released Daily, a wireless model that slots into their Edition range as the flagship model,should hit the stores in early December and retail about $100 more than the Kindle 2 at approximately $399. Saying that, don’t be surprise to see it come in at a figure closer to the Kindle’s $299, given what’s been going on recently and the fact that price would have been decided on when the Kindle was retailing for $349.

Sony PRS-950SC Daily Edition Reader (Silver)

It will utilize the AT&T 3G wireless network to connect to the online Sony-eBook-store and other comparable book-shops to download magazines, newspapers, electronic books and other printed media. This will be similar to the Kindle that uses the Sprint wireless network but unlike the Kindle the Daily will support file formats such as ePub, which is used by many online or e-libraries for electronic versions of popular titles they lend out, that will allow you to read not only eBooks they sell. This sends out the message, to buyers of these digital book readers, saying yes they would like them to buy from the Sony-eBook-store but if they choose to buy elsewhere then that’s fine and the Sony Digital Book Reader will allow them to do that. This openness is a far cry from past attitudes where companies have tried to tie purchasers of their models to having to buy their books too.

A big part of the Kindle’s appeal has always been the ability to ‘buy on the fly’. In my eyes, it seems to me Sony have finally realized that to get on terms with Kindle sales they have to offer a comparable numbers of titles, so readers have a real choice. It was probably impractical to extend their own offering to anywhere near the reported 350k titles Amazon hold in digital format so they have achieved this by firstly including the most popular file format for eBook freebies, the Adobe PDF, and then allowing downloads from many of the independent booksellers like Powells.com and Waterstones.co.uk. Just with the inclusion of PDF support they have enabled readers access to Google Library’s 1M plus free titles..neat eh.

With the release of the Touch Screen, Wireless Daily Edition along with their other Edition models, the Reader and the Touch, they have covered all bases and got themselves right back in the game. Sony have extended their potential customer base. Yes Kindle do offer a touch screen enabled, wireless model with a large screen, the clumsy, desktop calculator like DX, but this retails well above the expected Daily price and supports far less file formats. It seems the DX will be confined to a business application only, namely 1:1 A4 document, plan or drawing reading, in the very near future.

Another handy feature on this Sony digital book reader is the ability to access, wirelessly, the nascent electronic book services at your local library. With a library card, you can tap in your Zip code with the touch screen keyboard and this Portable eBook Reader will connect you to your chosen branch. At the time of writing, there are no plans by Sony to charge directly for their wireless service or any definite list on exactly which newspapers or periodicals will be available to download. Nor will users be able to access the web like they can with both the Kindle models or change text to speech, which if you have heard the results of that on a Kindle is no great loss.

What the release of this Sony digital book reader does to the digital book readers market is to be seen, but it will at last give the Kindle some stiff competition in the portable eBook reader sector, which they have dominated for so long. As they say; watch this space.

Sony Daily Edition Features:

1. Lovely metal body with good tactile feel. Included cover (leather?) is good quality.
2. Stylus is handy when using the touch screen, to keep greasy hands off.
3. Good pdf reader – although it had problems in zoom mode.
4. Portrait and landscape orientations, plus 2 page view in landscape.
5. Screen, and reading experience is better than computer screen, with little eye fatigue. Not quite as good as a book though, maybe because of the lower contrast between text and background.
6. Extensible storage using SD card.
7. Lots of features like note taking on books, search, dictionary, a collection of memos, a collection for b&w pictures, an audio player.

Sony PRS-950SC Daily Edition Reader (Silver)

Up until not too distant into the past, we could only mitigate the loss of trees to books by resorting to recycled paper. Not anymore, we can now do away with it altogether by switching to ebooks. Although this form of reading have been around for years, it wasn’t until after the portable ebook reader came onto the scene that this option could make a feasible impact. Of late, titles for the portable book reader have reached hundreds of thousands.

Bestsellers are known to top the million-mark routinely in traditional ‘dead tree’ copies. Chunks of forest would have been expended to manufacture their paper which in itself adds to greenhouse pollution and books do emit 4 times more global warming gas than e-readers. Studies (Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden) have concluded that “Reading the physical version of the NY Times for a year uses 7,300 MJ of energy and emits 700 kg of CO2. Reading it on a Kindle (ebook reader) uses 100 MJ of energy and emits 10 kg of CO2.”

The portable reader is also a boon in various other indirect ways not least of which is energy. When avid readers scour the town in search of that bestseller new release amid the all too familiar stock-out, petrol is wasted from all the driving around, while the car exhausts contaminate the air at that. By design, ebooks are downloaded online thus supplanting the cumbersome transportation, storage and distribution of physical books in the process. Theoretically, they can never go out-of-stock either.

As a standard practice, books are also generally indented in contingent quantities so as to avoid missed sales and upset customers. Stock return is a norm in the industry so why not? No wonder up to a third of books are returned and end up in some landfill. Periodicals like newspapers and magazines, with this inherently recurring attritional wastage, are exponentially worse. One solution to that comes in the form of the Kindle Portable eBook Reader from Amazon. This portable reader supports e-newspapers and magazines. In fact, its entire supply chain process is paperless. That’s one for the trees!

More than a million books are published every year but the Google has the ability to digitize much more than that. Everything is becoming digitized. Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last 25 years. But in the last 5 years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million. All these statistics lead to one conclusion: modern men prefer not to read on paper. We can’t blame them, digitization of reading materials promises to bring reading to another level and to a wider audience. It also is considered a “green” way to read.

Amazon.com is among the many innovators of digitizing books and bringing reading not on-paper but on-screen. Amazon.com started out as an online bookstore but it has grown to include most shopping and gift items like VHS, CDs, DVDs, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture and toys. They have also expanded rendering service not just in United States but shipping their items internationally.

Perhaps one of their most recent innovations that revolutionized reading is their very own wireless reading device called the Kindle. The Amazon Kindle is among the best hardware available that renders and display e-books and other digital media. What sets this apart from other mobile devices that also enable reading e-books is that it is specifically designed for reading unlike most mobile devices where that service is just a feature.

This electronic reader uses the E Ink technology that suits the needs of most readers. It’s a display screen technology that isn’t glossy and does not require backlights like CRT or LCD monitors. This means reading on-screen is just like reading on paper. You can read with the Kindle under direct sunlight or in your bedroom without straining your eyes.

Amazon was able to release 4 versions of their wireless reader to the market. With the latest version The DX Global having been released on January 19th, 2010. Every year the demand for this product has increased.

In fact, when Amazon offered their first Kindle in November 2007, they were sold out in five and a half hours. It wasn’t until April 2008 that they began selling them again. Their newest version which they call Amazon Kindle DX International has hit the world market by storm especially since they have decided to ship the product to 100 countries. 2009 ended with Amazon breaking the record by overtaking print sales with their e-book sales on Christmas day of 2009. That is a first in history and definitely won’t be the last milestone.

The portable ebook reader is redefining the way that we see digital print. The electronic ink (e-ink) displays that are used in these devices make it possible for people to read from them for long periods of time without the side effects of eye strain from the backlit LCD screens used on laptops and desktop monitors. To the human eye, the e-Ink screens look almost the same as real paper and the resolution of the ebook readers has become better too, allowing for intricate images and crisp text to be shown to the reader.

In the same way that iTunes and the iPod have changed the way people buy music, the Amazon Kindle Store and the Sony eBook Store have both enabled the reader to access books almost immediately. No more queuing at the local book store or waiting for a delivery! Just choose a book and download it to the eBook reader. The Kindle also allows you to download the first chapter of each book for free and this can all be done over a wireless connection too – so if you are on the bus and fancy some Stephen King, you can get it straight away.

The physical design of the eBook reader has evolved too. Some of the earlier devices were too heavy, thick and cumbersome, with small backlit screens and poor battery life. The digital book readers of today are lightweight, easy to use and designed to appeal to the paperback reader, not the gadget freak. Amazon have gone a long way to ensure that the latest Kindle is minimal enough that it allows the reader to disappear into the story, rather than be constantly reminded that they are using a digital device.

With the possibility that Apple are going to release a tablet style device that will also display digital content and eBooks, it is likely that these readers will go from strength to strength. They are quick, simple to use, subtle and empower the reader to achieve more than ever before. The age of the portable eBook reader is here, now!

Recent studies have shown that majority of the consumers still prefer the Amazon Kindle over Apple iPad. However, a lot of people have also quoted that undeniably iPad is ‘more appealing’ because of its multi-tasking capabilities. The studies were conducted by the One News Page and involved questions regarding the best Ebook readers available in the market these days to a total of 1000 US and UK respondents.

This is indeed the beginning of the Ebook generation. Amazon Kindle has established a good position as an Ebook reader specialist. The new Kindle is lighter and cheaper than the iPad which explains why 60% of the respondents preferred it over the iPad as an e-reader. Apple iPad’s platform is definitely giving Amazon a nice and stiff challenge and there are plenty of features to play for as iPad have just been recently launched earlier this year.

The new Kindle looks exactly like its predecessor in a lot of ways. Its 6-inch screen features a faster refresh rate and great contrast ratio. The new model is also very light and has a rubberized back which makes it very comfortable as it rests in your hand.

Amazon announced that Kindle is the best selling gadget on their site. In order to expand the availability of the new Kindle, the company also agreed to sell the model to more than a thousand stores in North America.

For the money the Kindle is definitely the best Ebook reader out there.

There are a few types of portable ebook readers to choose from. Sony has their version and Amazon has their Kindle. If you are a reader, or are planning on purchasing an either of these or similar products for a student, as you go through your buying decision process, you will appreciate the benefits and features each brings to the table

1. Display - look for a portable ebook reader where there is a large display for reading. Also think in terms of environments, reading in the sunlight, make sure there is an anti-glare screen

2. Battery Life - the battery life are comparable but keep it in mind and check

3. Coverage - some portable ebook readers are wireless which is great because you can buy books on the run if you run out. Others you can download books but you need an internet connection to do it. There is nothing wrong with either way, depends on you and what you would like.

4. Size of the Library - we’re talking in terms of how many books you can download to one of these devices.

5. Types of Content - are you interested in downloading books only? Maybe you would like to read the paper, or some pdf that you need to look over on the way to work. If you read books, magazines, newspapers or have documents for work or school, then you want a reader that can handle many different formats.

6. Access to Content - There isn’t much point in buying a reader if there isn’t a wide variety to choose from in terms of new book releases, newspapers available and magazine subscriptions. Each product is typically supported by a library and you want to make sure they have a wide variety to choose from that meets your needs and interests.

7. The Reader - in terms of the product itself, you want one that has the ability to adjust the text size. Give you the ability to read in portrait and in landscape (it’s a great feature for reading charts, etc). There is an ability to make annotations or notes in the “margins.” This is idea for students who have a textbook and are following along in class. You could write notes or things to remember that the instructor said that you need to remember.

These are just a few things you will want to take into consideration when you are looking for a portable ebook reader that is going to meet your needs and fit within your lifestyle!

The best thing that that Amazon Kindle offers is that you don’t have to worry about space anymore. You can have a wall full of books stored in your unit, or on a flash drive and it won’t take any space up. When you are done, you can delete it and that’s it, no more leftovers.

If you are thinking of taking a vacation or perhaps you are going out of town on business. This is the perfect time to consider getting a Kindle. You can have as many books to read on the road as you want, without having to contend with the weight or nuisance of packing them in your bags.

Since space in their luggage is a luxury that most travelers don’t have, taking books with you when you travel really isn’t a workable idea anyway, so packing books doesn’t really happen.

The Amazon Kindle is the perfect utility for the busy and condensed traveler. Many people love to read when they fly or drive, or even while on a cruise, but they get discouraged when they think of lugging all those books around. This gem of a product allows you unheard of portability.

Consider how much you have to read, and the difficult choices you make right before you travel. You wonder what books you want to read, and you bring a couple with. With the Kindle, you don’t have to do that anymore because you can bring them all with you.

A great enhancement that the Amazon Kindle has for their customers is the ability to search for text. That means if you ever want to look for something in the book, this feature makes it easy. This is just one of the many little enhancements that makes this the perfect item for reading lovers.

The Amazon Kindle enhances reading in ways that were relatively unheard of even a couple of years ago. There are so many little things that make it a wonderful utility to have at your disposal. Whether or not you travel a lot, or perhaps you are a student. You will be amazed at what this little gadget can do.

==> Pleasant screen. Most importantly is the screen to read from, it has easy to look at print and formatting and can save approximately 1,500 books on 2GB of memory. The screen is also unlike many computer monitors which may tire your eyes easily, the Kindle portable ebook readers do not do that. It is more like reading from a conventional paper.

==> More compact. The Kindle is slim and more compact than most paperback books, it is only 1/3 of an inch thick and allows reading of favorite newspapers, magazines, and blogs all on one lightweight and very cool device, which makes searching for content and publication much easier. Another great thing with the portable ebook readers, is it’s ability to add notes to the bottom of the page while reading.. Excellent for school and study for all ages.

==> Right Size buttons. The Kindle has large side buttons as-well, to move text up and down with a screen that is easy to look at, the portable ebook readers have a very sleek design all white in color and is extremely user-friendly straight out of the box. The compact and user-friendly kindle also allows for screen view changes from a portrait to landscape, and guarantees a flawless viewing experience. Another fantastic feature is the unique electronic ink display for an amazingly sharp and clear view no matter what the lighting. The images are extremely pure and there is never a glare.

==> Search for books. There are no other portable ebook readers with a full qwerty keyboard the Kindle is not required to be connected to a computer to download e-Books. It also makes searching for selected words or phrases within a book easy and effortless to do without pages to turn over or hold down.

==> Take digital notes. While reading your book, with the Kindle portable ebook readers, entire books can be downloaded in as little as sixty seconds. There are tones of great e-Books for download as-well. Buying conventional books uses paper.. killing trees, and has high production costs for machines, ink and maintenance. The full processes, time effort and of course money that goes into making paper, is enormous.

==> Long battery life. Without turning the battery on, you can keep reading the portable ebook readers for a week before having to recharge and it and only takes about 2 hours. There are no extra fees for the 3g coverage. 3g is defined as 3rd generation speedy wireless technology.

Having 3gig of the network in over 100 countries means searching and shopping for new publications on the Kindle is very easy. After the portable ebook readers test, the top results were because its fast speed and easy to use dictionary included, the last page read is also automatically saved, so there is no more trying to remember the last page number when a bookmark falls out or gets miss placed. Portable ebook readers makes our life and leisure time that bit more easy.