"Can you send me a review copy of the book?"
It's a fairly straightforward question that crops up a lot - but for some authors, the answer is "um... I don't know!"
Well, if your book is an ebook on Amazon, the answer should be yes. It's pretty easy - though not as obvious as it could be on Amazon's interface.
Let's walk through it. Your first step should be to go to the Kindle Direct Publishing site - that's
https://kdp.amazon.com/ and it's where you will have uploaded your book to Amazon. Sign in and you should see a screen like this:
Underneath will be listed your books - go to the book you want to get a mobi file for and find this button:
Click on the three little dots and you should see this sub-menu appear:
Click on Edit eBook Content. Now when you scroll down the content section, you'll see an area with the heading Kindle eBook Preview. There's a screenshot below to show you what to look for.
Where it says Preview on your computer, you'll need to pop down that little section so you can see it in full detail - and the bit I've circled in red? Click on that and it'll download a copy of the mobi file onto your computer. It'll likely be in your Downloads folder when it's done, unless you've specified it should save elsewhere.
And that's it. Simple as that. You can do similar for a pdf if you've published the book as a paperback - again, there's an option to download a pdf version from the preview section under paperback content, but I'll cover that more in another blog post discussing paperback publication.
Once you have the mobi file, you can convert it into an epub file with a simple, free program called Calibre, but again we'll cover that another time.
So there you are, the first Author Tips article on Altered Instinct - I hope it helped!
What if it says your file cannot be downloaded?
ReplyDeleteI ran into the same problem that you did. I believe this is due to Amazon discontinuing MOBI files as of June 28th, 2021. They will no longer let you download them.
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