How to Create Your Book on Amazon for $99

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A long time ago, on a desktop far, far away...

That has not dreamed of not only writing their own book, but seeing it in print o-n Amazon.com, having a copy for their shelf, getting 'five copies for my mother'?

Well, you will get it done for a $99 price and some cybernetic elbow grease. These pages will show you how I did it, and odds are you may do it too. I've been studying for many years about Print On Demand, the neat new techology where you devote PDF files on one end (One for the address, one for the interiors) and a lovely, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out another. I've even seen the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that is my job, by-the way.)

I've known other folks who have used Print On-demand (POD) as an easy way to self-publish, including my very own father. My problem with that is I've no room in my own garage for books, I don't need to get involved in the process of attempting to sell and delivery books, handling returns, and so on.

Suddenly, while Googling anything a week ago, I came upon some great Goo. Amazon, the online bookstore, has absorbed a POD manager named BookSurge, making it a different Amazon section. Be taught more on the affiliated encyclopedia by navigating to get https://amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259/. Now I could pay a fee, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, just take my book project, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for everybody to get. In case people need to dig up further on best https://www.amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259/, there are many online resources people should investigate. I-t delivers within 48 hours, BookSurge gives me a 25% royalty within 60-days, I could even obtain five copies for my mother in a discount!

I emailed BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I'll call Joseph (since his name is Joseph). I inquired about the details of writing a book. For $599 I could get 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 use the Author's Express program to upload my book projects.

Because my book creation project was designed to be the precursor of several more titles, $99 looked like the way to go.

I went all over the site, installing example PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything else I can find. The site recomends applying 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 work with me, because that's what I'd o-n my desktop, and I don't need to spend weeks studying another desktop publishing application, though I am sure it's a great one. We discovered amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259 by browsing Bing. I learned about www.amazon.com/mechanics-online-reputation-management-control/dp/1519762259/ by browsing Bing.

Besides, I had been considering writing this page, and I wanted to come up with an activity most anyone will be comfortable with.

Really the only shortcut I took is that my cover is plain-text, with no images onto it. I thought my first book will probably sell largely if not entirely o-n Amazon, and quite a cover is not that crucial there. Whatever the case, I can always return and enhance my edition (The additional fee for resubmitting after the book is published.), either the inside or the cover is $50

Sample documents and a whole step-by-step explanation of how I formatted and published my three books (therefore far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject.