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Re: Does anyone have experience converting a book manuscript from Word to Kindle?
Subject:Re: Does anyone have experience converting a book manuscript from Word to Kindle? From:Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> To:dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com Date:Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:44:32 -0600
Hi folks
In addition to what Dana said, my wife just yesterday got a Kindle and
was reading that it appears to be capable of viewing PDF with no
conversion needed. So you might also investigate that option.
Cheers... Rick :)
Dana Worley (MVP/JB) wrote:
> I have not tried this, but perhaps there's an alternative solution:
> Save/convert the Word doc to PDF, and then convert the PDF to Kindle. A
> quick google search turned up:
>
>http://publishingcentral.com/blog/ebook-publishing/how-to-convert-pdf-files-into-kindle-ebooks
>
> (same site Chris referred to).
>
> Good luck and let us know how it goes :)
>
> Dana W.
>
> On 12/14/2010 12:00 AM, techwr-l-request -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote:
>
>> My client has asked me to convert a 265-page book manuscript from MS
>> Word 2007 to a Kindle-readable file.
>>
>
>
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