# Company that markets e-books... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791 "2013-04-04T01:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/1 "2013-04-04T01:46:10Z")
If I wanted to compile my writings into an e-book & market it, what would be the best companies to do it through? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/2 "2013-04-04T02:35:33Z")
Moved from General Questions to Cafe Society. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/3 "2013-04-04T07:53:20Z")
A coworker has had a good experience publishing his work as a Kindle book (which is free) and it’s not tied down to Kindle owners because Amazon has a Kindle app which allows Kindle publications to be read on smart phones, tablets, computers, etc. They don’t market it for you of course but it will show up in a search of their inventory just like a hardcover book or CD or anything else. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/4 "2013-04-04T10:23:27Z")
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and probably others will all distribute it for you. If you actually want someone to “market” it that’s a different kettle of fish. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/5 "2013-04-04T16:26:04Z")
We’re actually looking at how to format it- Sorry I wasn’t clearer. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/6 "2013-04-04T17:36:17Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > We’re actually looking at how to format it- Sorry I wasn’t clearer. If you use Kindle or Barnes & Noble, a doc in Word format will suffice, ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/7 "2013-04-07T00:46:57Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > If you use Kindle or Barnes & Noble, a doc in Word format will suffice, But it won’t look all that great. I know a writer who formats her newsletter for iPads and Kindles… she used Word, but quickly hit its limitations, and ran into a lot of random reformatting. It’s a Word Processing application, not a Page Layout one. She’s now using Adobe InDesign, but it takes some learnin’ to master. So she’s taking a class (…from me). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-that-markets-e-books/654791/8 "2013-04-07T01:39:12Z")
Will Amazon accept manuscripts in TeX/LaTeX? That’s an even steeper learning curve than something like InDesign, but it’s also free, and will probably stick around longer.