

Those consequences included the possibility of Amazon making other people’s ebooks available in its Kindle store. It was just 2 weeks ago that I wrote about the possible consequences of the Digital Services Act.

He also speaks to everyone about ALLi's 10 year story so far. Please do listen to a special London Book Fair Self-Publishing News podcast here. Tim will be leading us in a discussion of whether we should format our own books. It's a powerful program that can really help folks who have multiple readers or who want to explore new formats.This week's #indieauthorchat is back on a Wednesday this week, at 8pm UK time, 3pm Eastern Time. Of course, you can use Calibre to convert other e-book files as well. It doesn't usually take very long, and once you've converted them, you can send them straight to your Kindle from within Calibre by selecting "Connect/share" from the top right or aiming your device at the correct folder.When you're settled, click "OK" at the bottom right. You have a vast array of options to choose from, but for most EPUBs, you should find the basic setup good enough. Calibre should have automatically decided on the MOBI format if you use a Kindle as your primary reader. Select the EPUB files you want to convert and click "Convert books" in the top bar.Add any EPUB files you've got that you want to convert. From the main screen, you can choose to add books by clicking the large icon in the top left.When you first run it, Calibre will ask what language you want to use, and to select a folder to use as your e-book library.Calibre is a free, open-source e-book manager that lets users convert EPUB files to Kindle-readable MOBI files. If you use an e-reader, it's probably a Kindle, which means it can be a pain to use open-source e-book formats like EPUB.
