Convert Books to Kindle

The Kindle is becoming one of the most popular digital devices on the market today with an estimated 2.5 million already sold and Amazon projecting a further 500,000 in the next quarter. The Kindle allows users to access a large number of books from one place as well as buy them at a better price than their physical siblings.

In turn, the amount of authors and publishers that want to convert books to Kindle format, has skyrocketed and for the many books out there that have perhaps been out of publication for some time or that just don't or no longer have a digital copy of the book available, the options are fairly limited as to what can be done to make a digital version of the book to sell online, whether it be for the Kindle or the likes of the iPad.

The best solution is via document scanning services that can provide book scanning and conversion to Kindle. It doesn't have a major cost, although this can indeed depend upon the book itself but to convert books to Kindle, this is the easiest and cleanest way to go about it.

Book scanning companies will take your physical books and scan them onto their hard drives as high quality images. Books can be scanned either as they are, or they can be taken apart if you're not interested in the book being damaged which can often lead to a slightly cheaper price. Once this process is done, the images scanned onto the system will be converted to PDF files which are then sent for OCR conversion. OCR is, to put it simply, the process of making a PDF completely text searchable, so the PDF file will no longer be a flat image, but it will be dynamic. After this is done the text searchable PDF will be converted into the formats of your choice whether this be the e-Pub format, the format used to convert books to Kindle, the.mobi platform for the likes of the Apple iPad and also more standard formats such as Microsoft Word.

Books can also be edited before they are sent for conversion to Kindle format to remove any mistakes that had previously been missed.

Once the process is complete, you'll be left with a fully text-searchable e-Pub format file to be sent to Amazon to be sold on the Kindle store. The process is usually a fairly short one and therefore shouldn't cost you too much, but the money you could make back could be significantly more.

Check the scanning company's credentials for the likes of the ISO 9001 and the ICO which guarantee better quality service as well as enhanced data protection processes. Also if your book is somewhat older and more fragile, check that the company uses overhead book scanners so that the book will not be overexposed to more intense lighting.

Books are becoming reborn thanks to the Kindle and other digital reading devices, and before long the majority of books will be on the platform. It makes sense to convert books to Kindle as the vast majority of new books are also being released on the Kindle platform as well as physically.

Pearl Scan Solutions offer excellent document scanning, document management and book scanning services. We convert books to Kindle format on a daily basis and provide an old around excellent service for beginning to end.