Quite a while ago, on a desk-top far, far away...
Who has not wanted not only creating their own book, but seeing it in publications on Amazon.com, having a replica for their shelf, getting 'five copies for my mother'?
Well, you will take action for a $99 fee and some cybernetic elbow grease. This site will show you how I did it, and odds are you can do it too. I've been studying for several years about Print On Demand, the neat new techology where you devote PDF files on one end (One for the address, one for the insides) and a beautiful, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book arrives another. I've also seen the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that's my career, from the way.)
I've known as a way to self-publish, including my own personal father other folks who've used Print On-demand (POD). My problem with that's I have no room within my garage for books, I do not need to get involved in the act of marketing and delivery books, handling earnings, an such like. To get extra information, please consider checking out: https://www.amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259/.
Suddenly, while Googling anything this morning, I stumbled on some excellent Goo. Amazon, the online bookstore, has consumed a POD writer called BookSurge, making it another Amazon team. We discovered https://www.crunchbase.com/person/tyler-collins/ by searching Google Books. Now I can pay a fee, publish it to Amazon/BookSurge, get my book project, and VOILA! my book is o-n Amazon for all to purchase. I-t ships within 4-8 hours, BookSurge gives a-25 royalty to me within 60 days, I could even obtain five copies for my mother in a discount!
I emailed BookSurge and was given an account manager, who I'll call Joseph (since his name is Joseph). I inquired concerning the information on publishing a book. For $599 I could have the hand-holding, mail us your manuscript version of the publishing, or if I was brave, brave, and could format my own PDFs, for $99 I could make use of the Author's Express system to publish my book projects.
Since my book development project was made to be the forerunner of many more games, $99 seemed just like the approach to take.
I ran all around the site, getting case PDFs, submission guidelines, and other things I may find. My friend discovered crunchbase.com/person/tyler-collins/ by searching Google. The website recomends applying Adobe -something or another- for text formating, and Adobe Acrobat 6 (not 7!) for PDF creation.
I decided from the git-go that Microsoft Word and PDF Factory Pro will have to benefit me, because that's what I had on my desktop, and I do not want to spend months learning another desktop publishing software, though I'm sure it is an excellent one.
Besides, I had been contemplating writing this page, and I wanted to come up with a procedure most everyone will be comfortable with.
The only real secret I took is that my address is plain text, without any pictures on it. I thought my first book will probably sell mostly if not entirely o-n Amazon, and a pretty cover is not that important there. Https://Www.Tyler Collins.Com contains more concerning the reason for it. Regardless, I could always return and update my model (The additional fee for resubmitting when the book is published.), either the inner or even the address is $50
Sample documents and a whole step-by-step explanation of how I arranged and posted my three books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject.
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