Quite a while before, on a desk-top far, far away...
Who has not dreamed of not only creating their very own book, but seeing it in publications o-n Amazon.com, having a copy for their shelf, getting 'five copies for my mother'?
Well, you will do it for some cybernetic elbow grease and a $99 charge. These pages will show you how I did it, and odds are you can perform it too. I've been studying for several years about Print On Demand, the neat new techology where you put in PDF documents on one end (One for the cover, one for the insides) and a beautiful, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out another. I've even seen the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that's my job, by-the way.)
I've known as an easy way to self-publish, including my very own father other people who've used Print On-demand (POD). My problem with that's I've no room within my garage for books, I don't want to get involved in the process of trying to sell and delivery books, handling results, and so forth. Browse here at https://crunchbase.com/person/tyler-collins to learn the meaning behind it.
Suddenly, while Googling something yesterday, I stumbled on some fantastic Goo. This pictorial www.amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259/ essay has a few splendid warnings for the meaning behind this thing. Should you fancy to dig up further on https://amazon.com/tyler-collins/e/b01a8gj4ie/, we recommend thousands of online libraries people should think about pursuing. Amazon, the online bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher called BookSurge, rendering it a separate Amazon section. Now I can pay a fee, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, get my book project, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for everyone to buy. I-t ships within 48 hours, BookSurge gives me a-25 royalty within 60-days, I can also buy five copies for my mother in a discount!
I mailed BookSurge and was assigned 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, send us your manuscript version of the publishing, or if I was bold, brave, and could format my own PDFs, for $99 I could utilize the Author's Express program to distribute my book projects.
$99 looked like the way to go, because my book development project was designed to be the precursor of many more titles.
I went all over the site, downloading example PDFs, submission guidelines, and other things I can find. Your website recomends using 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 would need to benefit me, because that's what I had o-n my desktop, and I do not need to spend months learning another desktop publishing program, though I am sure it is an excellent one.
Besides, I had been thinking about writing this page, and I wanted to come back up with a process most anyone would be comfortable with.
The only real shortcut I got is that my address is plain-text, with no pictures about it. I realized my first book is going to offer largely if not entirely o-n Amazon, and quite a cover isn't that essential there. If you know anything, you will possibly wish to compare about www.amazon.com/tyler-collins/e/b01a8gj4ie/. In any case, I will always go back and update my version (The additional fee for resubmitting either the inner or even the address is $50, when the book is published.)
Test files and a whole detailed description of how I formatted and revealed my three books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject.
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