I've waded through the Smashwords Style Guide and come out the other side, humbled and wiser.
There are dozens of paths that will take your novel from a computer to Kindle, and the route will largely depend on the current file format of the work. We're going to start with the most common for indie authors: a Microsoft Word document.
If a publisher came to me and asked to represent my my novel, promising to shop it around to other publishers, I'd be stunned.
Look out Sony e-reader, Nook and Kobo, because Amazon announced this week that Kindles are now on display and available for purchase at 3,200 Walmart stores.
Genre fiction is selling so well on Kindle that Amazon is stepping further into the publishing roll. They've opened up an imprint, Montlake Romance, that will publish everything from paranormal romance to suspense romance.