Making a Kindle Book

Well, I finally was able to create a Chinese book I can read on my Kindle, but it's big (5 MB), and when I tried to use Amazon's DTP service to make it available on the Kindle website I hit a glitch. The process of 'converting' the .PRC file turned all the graphics into little postage stamps, at least in preview mode.

I may experiment with setting up the book as an HTML file and then loading that to the conversion system, but for now I've just put a comment on the Amazon DTP forum to see why it is a Mobipocket format PRC file needs any conversion at all. Another nice benefit of 'conversion'? It tosses your cover image.

I'll let everyone know when (if) I get it published, though the target demographic is about 10 people world wide. The book is a scanned version of the Yi Jing (I Ching), and in fact it's only the core portion of the text the Zhou Yi, along with some graphics from an old Qing commentary. So to enjoy this text you have to:

1. Read Chinese
2. Read traditional characters
3. Be interested in the Zhou Yi
4. Have a Kindle

Make that one person, not ten. And I have a copy. Sigh.