I always recommend you start to collect
sample pages of books that have very readable designs to use as a guide when designing the interior pages of your book.
Just found this cool free web tool, useful for posting
sample pages of your book on your website or blog.
Not exact matches
You can read the other review, learn more about the
book, and even read a free
sample of the
book by visiting it's product
page on Amazon.
To test either liquid or solid
samples, the researchers turned to the same household staple many
of us use to repair a torn
book page or affix a photo to a piece
of paper: adhesive tape.
Write a short explanation
of who the
book is for, who you are, and add in two
pages of sample text.
The writer relates how he sold the
book based on a 100 -
page sample, and had Hollywood throwing money at him within two days
of its acceptance by a publisher.
If you are unfamiliar with the series, please download our free
sample, «Doing Laundry» on this site to see the format and tone used in all the
books in this series or preview
pages on the individual titles
of each
book which are also offered on this site.
To give you a general idea
of the content and format
of the STAAR MASTER
books, we have uploaded
sample pages for 3rd - 8th grade above.
Ask if the editor will edit the aforementioned
sample, usually a few
pages from the start
of your
book.
Table
of Contents If you're writing a nonfiction
book, include a table
of contents (TOC) with your 10 -
page sample.
FREE
SAMPLE: I will edit a sample of up to 1000 words from the beginning of your book (about four pages, double - spaced) for free before both parties commit to a full edit, to ensure you will get what you need from a copy
SAMPLE: I will edit a
sample of up to 1000 words from the beginning of your book (about four pages, double - spaced) for free before both parties commit to a full edit, to ensure you will get what you need from a copy
sample of up to 1000 words from the beginning
of your
book (about four
pages, double - spaced) for free before both parties commit to a full edit, to ensure you will get what you need from a copy edit.
Once upon a time, the process
of landing a
book deal started with mailing
sample pages of your manuscript to literary agents, hoping one
of them liked your writing enough to be willing to represent you.
Barnes and Noble and Kobo also deliver
samples to you and normally comprise
of less than 10 %
of the
book and most publishers actually have a say in how many
pages of a
book can be available in a chapter.
They'd just seen a
sample of one
of the video «cyber-bridges» that readers will get a link to every 20
pages or so in the
book.
For two
of my categories I have websites where I highlight the
pages from the
books, give away
samples, build out related products.
When you download the
sample of a
book you are given access to a handful
of pages — an excerpt — that will be automatically added to your iBooks library.
Samples from Amazon must be redownloaded from the
book's Amazon
page, so make a note
of those before deleting, if you want to resample that content.
I believe there are other chapters that are more representative
of the
book as a whole (number
of such
pages total less than 50), but if you want me to send the Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 as the
sample chapters, that's what I'll do.
This simple widget allows authors and publishers to increase views
of their
books and potentially increase their sales by placing a
sample of the
book directly onto their website rather than having potential readers go to the Amazon
page to read a
sample of the
book.
I am but one entity, but I am slowly making my way through our members; reading
pages, following links, reading
samples of your
books and posting comments on your
pages, as well as my blog where I review your
books.
Free reading is limited to an hour per day, but that's plenty
of time to get a taste beyond the free
sample pages most
books offer.
The app is beautifully designed with an almost - full - screen display
of eac cover; touch «infos» and you get background information on the
book plus a couple
of sample pages.
Mosaic
of book covers, tap for info, photo
of the author, audio
of someone reading the opening
page, links to more works by the same author and click to buy or download a
sample.
You can get a free copyright
page sample in any
of my free
book formatting templates.
As the
samples show, a mind map
of a
book's table
of contents, reproduced on a single, printable, sheet
of paper, can often tell you more about a
book than its table
of contents, which can spread over several
pages.
Make sure there's dialogue on those
pages, and if your main character does lots
of italicized introspection (internal dialogue) throughout the
book, include a
sample of that.
You can also download a large PDF
sample found here on each
of my
book pages.
I will provide a
sampling of pages for you to review the fonts and text sizes suggested for the body text, headings, and chapter
pages, as well as any other textual and visual elements in the
book.
Recent O'Reilly
sample: 240 -
page book, 198
pages of table
of contents.
I played with Kindle for the Mac using the
sample of the
book displayed on Amazon's web
page.
You can click on «Read a
Sample» and read the first few
pages of the
book, within the Facebook App.
Free eReader apps, such as Amazon's Kindle and Kobo, allow children to quickly download
books and
sample free chapters or a number
of pages to see if the
book piques their interest.
The Pubsoft platform gives publishers the power to engage and manage authors with SEO - optimized author and
book landing
pages, social media marketing integration, distribution capabilities across multiple channels and online content
sampling and multiple point
of purchase options.
When you sell your
book on Amazon, the Look Inside feature allows buyers to check out
sample pages from your
book, read the table
of contents, and browse the index.
feature allows buyers to check out
sample pages from your
book, read the table
of contents, and browse the index.
That's not a lot
of words, so don't waste your valuable space describing what happens in your
sample pages / the early part
of your
book.
Authors should send us their eBook manuscripts with all the text they would like included in a single file: title
page (if not using a jpeg), copyright
page, table
of contents, other
books by author, dedication and / or acknowledgements, foreword and / or preface (if any), chapters (main document), a statement announcing end
of book and beginning
of a teaser chapter (optional), the teaser chapter
of next
book (optional), statement saying «End
of Sample Chapter» with link where readers can learn / buy
book, and author bio.
At the end
of the
sample, include a link to the
book's
page at the retailer's website to the reader can purchase the
book.
I've also checked endings
of free
samples to see what Amazon did with their Buy Now link, which in older versions was switching to
book's Kindle Store
page in Safari.
These
samples will show the font, margins, headings,
page numbers and other elements
of your
book.
A
book sample is a PDF
of key
pages from your
book and something easily created for you by your
book designer.
Books on Amazon let you read a
sample of the first few
pages.
• This ebook is available exclusively from Baen
Books, whose
page for the
book has a description, links to
sample chapters, and a list
of available formats.
A final proven online
book advertising idea for authors is to create a free
sample of some
of the
pages from their publications to lure people to your website.
Formerly, to catch a brief glimpse
of what
book you want to buy, you would have to go directly to the bookstore or browse the
sample pages from online retailers.
That's why the second half
of the
book is a forty -
page sampler
of excerpts from Through God's Eyes that includes the Table
of Contents, Foreword, Introduction, chapter excerpts,
sample story, endorsements and testimonials.
The
books below link to their Amazon product
page and are a small
sample of the Createspace conversions we have worked on.
You'll send them information about yourself — like a copy
of your
book or manuscript, or
sample pages of anything you've written.
Because shoppers will see only the first few
pages of your
book in the
sample, it's a good idea reduce the amount
of «front matter» at the beginning
of your Kindle
book, so that the table
of contents and / or first chapter appears within the first few
pages.
Here, you can find Michelle's
books, reviews, excerpts, buylinks and samples of the playlists she listens to when writing via the Books page, along with regular upd
books, reviews, excerpts, buylinks and
samples of the playlists she listens to when writing via the
Books page, along with regular upd
Books page, along with regular updates.