Ebooks As An Alternative To Print Publishing
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: article writing, books, ebooks, education, hobbies, home business, leisure, literature, marketing, other, publishing, reading, society, Uncategorized, writingHave you written a book and been trying to get it published? If so, you will know how hard it is to write 120,000 words of attention-grabbing material. However, it does not end there, often it is more difficult to have the book published than it was to write it.
You could spend years writing your book and it is quite depressing when nobody displays any desire to publish it. Some authors take years to locate a publisher and some never manage it at all. If that sounds familiar, why not publish it yourself?
Years ago, this only meant one thing - paying a publisher to print a couple of hundred copies that you have to sell yourself. However, nowadays there is a second option and that is to publish it as an ebook. This is fairly simple nowadays and you can realistically have your ebook on sale within a couple of hours.
If you have written a book, say, a novel, you will want to see it on book shelves in book shops, which means that you will have to hawk it to publishers until you become bored with it. If you choose that you would like to publish anyway, this is how you go about it.
You will probably have written your.book in MS Word format, which is as handy a format as any. First download OpenOffice from the Net, you will find it by Googling ‘OpenOffice’. OpenOffice is a free office suite equivalent to and, many say, better than MS Office.
Then load your book into OpenOffice and find the PDF converter in the ‘File’ tab. Save your document as a PDF document. First add a few photos if you think that they will improve the book.
Next go to Amazon and create an account at their Kindle Direct Publishing section. Go to Bookshelf and click on ‘Add a new title’. The Wizard will guide you through uploading your book on to their shelves and you will be able to set the price for your ebook.
You will receive up to 70% of the revenue and you may choose this percentage yourself too. You will be able to upload a picture for your book as well.
Amazon will deal with all the aspects of transacting the sales for you. They will advertise your book, take the money and provide the customer with a link to download your book. The proceeds from sales will be kept in your Amazon account until it reaches $100, when a cheque will be dispatched to you.
Sales will be made in US dollars, Pounds Sterling and Euros and capital will mount up in the three currencies. The currencies are not amalgamated so you will have to wait until you get 100 Euros and 100 GBP. You will also be given a link to your book’s ad, so that you can promote it yourself by email, newsletter or web site.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a range of subjects, but is now concerned with kindle reader format. If you want to know more, please go to our web site at Kindle vs Book
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