You are the ones putting your hearts and souls on the line
by getting your books into print.
Not exact matches
Pam Dover [00:15:05] Another thing a lot of authors are using
print on demand for is to
get their
book out
into the marketplace, and they're being picked up
by some of the larger trade publishing houses.
If you're looking for a concise guide to
getting your
book out of a Word file and into print, 10 Steps to Publish & Succeed: How to Put Your Best Book Forward by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth read
book out of a Word file and
into print, 10 Steps to Publish & Succeed: How to Put Your Best
Book Forward by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth read
Book Forward
by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth reading.
As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't
get my
books into such stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «
printed in» on the last verso page of my
books proves they were
printed by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.
If you check out ANN's thread about the Ipad App, Ed Chavez from Vertical steps in and explains the difficulties involved with
getting digital releases on multiple devices - every device has it's own coding / programming / delivery system [so you can't just plunk in your high - res PDF for your
print edition], which can sometimes be time consuming or restrictive depending on their policites [the Playstation Network one was rather icky
by the sounds of it - they only want chapters, not full
books, and they want the comics cut up
into a panel
by panel slideshow].
By downloading,
printing, and studying the following mind map examples, you'll
get a better understanding of leading authors tend to be mind mappers; mind mapping is the easiest way to organize your ideas
into a logical table of contents for writing your
book.
Which you should be doing of course, and if you have some brilliant strategies for turning your
book into a STORY
by connecting it with some current events or burning media issue, and if you have some events planned around the launch, then you should probably have both the ebook and
print version ready (
getting the files right takes a LOT longer than you think, always give yourself a few months of extra space before you launch).
With the launch of their third series to incorporate a
print or digital
book — an actual stand - alone title within a series, not an enhanced interactive format — that also happens to include an online gaming world that corresponds to the
book, readers are taking to the series from both sides of the
book: those who love to read and are intrigued
by the game aspect, as well as those reluctant readers who
get drawn
into the
books because of their involvement in the online game.
That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published
by large houses as well,
get works
into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those
books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional
print ways.
It meant that any of us could
get in the door simply
by paying $ 25.00 to CreateSpace and
getting our
book into print.
So unless you do something really special (and expensive) like
getting the printer to insert a single plate
by hand
into each
book before it is bound, you're going to be
printing the entire
book in full CYMK + color.
If you'd like a step -
by - step guide to publishing
print and ebooks and
getting them
into the major online bookstores, check out my
book Self - Publishing for Canadians.
As a publishing consultant, she helps authors
get their
books into the world
by working in
print - on - demand and ebook publishing as a
book designer and project manager.
You
get the feeling that some day we'll all stop
by Walgreens to toss in a manuscript and pick up a ready edition of the
book a bit later, just like having vacation pictures made
into prints.)
It's all too common for a
book to go
into production only to
get held up because the graphics were produced
by someone who didn't know the requirements of
print production, or they were output at a resolution too low for
printing; or the files are too small to create images the size that you want in the
book, or for any number of other problems that can cause your project to come to a grinding halt.
But more often than not, the result of thinking story - to - story, deal - to - deal, seems to be debut novels that
get some good buzz followed
by second
books that miss the mark and third
books that don't make it
into print at all.
«What an author
gets per copy is not adequate to conclude that they make more money in total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly
by low priced or almost free titles, so it is not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money
by using this sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell ebooks and
printed books it could be a reason for the effect
into the decreased market share that they have on Amazon.»