KBoards authors: we've put together a way for you to use Amazon's "Kindle for the Web" widget, to show readers a sample of your work right here on KindleBoards. You can use these sample links from any web page, as well from within your KBoards posts.
Just use a link that looks like this:
https://www.kboards.com/sample/?asin=XXXXXXXXXX... and replace those X's with the 10-character ASIN for your book.
Here's an example showing how you might format it for a forum post:
[url=https://www.kboards.com/sample/?asin=XXXXXXXXXX
]Read a sample of my book!
[/url
]And here's an HTML example, which is what you'd use to add a link to your blog or other web page:
<a href="
https://www.kboards.com/sample/?asin=XXXXXXXXXX">Read a sample of my book!</a>
Some examples you can try:
https://www.kboards.com/sample/?asin=B003NX6Z00Read a sample of The Artist's Model!
We've also made a second stripped-down version available - that does not display the KindleBoards headers and footers. This might be preferable when linking to your sample from other sites, such as your home page site, your author page, facebook, or twitter.
Here's the code for that (very similar to the above code; just use 'sample2' instead of 'sample'):
https://www.kboards.com/sample2/?asin=XXXXXXXXXXForum post template:
[url=https://www.kboards.com/sample2/?asin=XXXXXXXXXX
]Read a sample of my book!
[/url
]Web page template:
<a href="
https://www.kboards.com/sample2/?asin=XXXXXXXXXX">Read a sample of my book!</a>
Example:
https://www.kboards.com/sample2/?asin=B003NX6Z00
With either version, a sample of your book becomes immediately readable in the browser with a single click. Amazon says that not all books can be sampled with Kindle-For-The-Web, as this is in beta with Amazon. But from my spot-checking, most can. You can try yours by plugging in your ASIN into the web address as shown above.
Please post any questions or feedback. Thanks!
-Harvey
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