publishing ebooks ?

Capt'n Midnight

OK you have a PDF and some cover images and other bits and pieces

how do you go from there to selling books on amazon / kindle ?


I'm looking for something like http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows


so far I'm thinking

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ - anything to pdf or imag

http://www.pdfsam.org/ pdf split and merge will assemble pdf 's

http://calibre-ebook.com - swapping formats

http://inkscape.org/ for covers

what other tools should I be looking at ?

Johnboy1951

jpdftweak
jPDF Tweak is a Java Swing application that can combine,
split, rotate, reorder, watermark, encrypt, sign, and
otherwise tweak PDF files.

pdfedit
Complete editing of pdf documents is easy with PDFedit.
You can change either raw pdf objects (for advanced users)
or use predefined gui functions.

pdfmod
PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents.
You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.

pdfshuffler
PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

Maybe some of the above would be of interest

oscarBravo

pdftk - the Swiss Army knife of PDF tools.

croo

Are you looking for PDF tools or how to sell your book on Amazon? because I don't believe one thing has anything to do with the other.

Amazon deals with publishers rather than authors so if you have a book you want to sell you need a publisher (that deals with Amazon).

On the otherhand, if you want to convert a PDF to the "native" format of a Kindle then what you need to do is convert your file to MOBI format.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI
The MOBI format was, I think, developed by a French company called mobipocket and they were acquired by Amazon in 2005.

The files the kindle downloads from amazon are a propreitary AZW e-book format but these, it seems, are identical in format to DRM enabled MOBI files.

You could work out how to convert the files yourself or as you pointed out Calibre can do this already. Calibre is open source so you can download its source code to see how they did the conversion!
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/develop.html give a nice overview on how to do this.

Setun

To reiterate what OscarBravo suggested - pdftk is quite powerful, you can get a lot done with it and alongside ImageMagick I guess it would cover most situations.