Transplanting a Seattleite

Clearly he didn't know what he was doing, which was sort of his point. But assuming the consultant does, 1 to 6 hours of work may indeed be about what it takes to get the file of a book Kindle-ready. And all other things being equal, in the current environment one's most likely starting from a Word document. (Most authors would go all deer-in-the-headlights on you and say, "But isn't Word a text editor? It edits text, right?")