Sentences with phrase «just getting their books into print»

Many authors talk about the challenges of just getting their books into print.

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I just want to help new and undiscovered authors get their books into print.

Australian self - publishing guru Emily Craven, of E-Book Revolution, has made a wonderful video that explains how she used Pressbooks to produce the PDFs she needed to get her book into a Print - on - Demand service, meaning that her books are not just available as ebooks, but as paper books too.

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].

We've just released our very own Pressbooks Guide to Self - Publishing, which will explain how to get your book into print and ebook stores (using Pressbooks) for under $ 100.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

I think too that people considering going POD or other non-traditional pub offerings forget that it's not just a question of getting your book into print but actually selling it!

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.)

Instead of doing editing and cover design work, printing tens or hundreds of thousands of copies, and using their vast distribution, storage, and shipping network to get their books into thousands of bookstores across the country (and thus earning their share), publishers are now just doing the same editing and cover design work and a relatively - painless e-book conversion and upload process, and are taking 75 % of the proceeds.

But I have to admit that when I started to buy books — just last year — about the new self - publishing, about the world of print on demand, about selling on Amazon and all the new ways to get into print, I was astonished.

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