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

Who hasn't dreamed of not only writing their personal book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, possessing a copy for their bookshelf, buying 'five copies for my mother?'

Well, now you can do it for a $99 fee and some cybernetic elbow grease. This web page will show you how I did it, and chances are you can do it too. I've been studying for numerous years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology exactly where you put in PDF files on a single end (A single for the cover, 1 for the insides) and a gorgeous, ideal-bound, bookstore-good quality book comes out the other. I've even seen the technologies in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that's my profession, by the way.)

I've recognized other men and women who have used Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, such as my personal father. My issue with that is I have no area in my garage for books, I do not want to get involved in the procedure of promoting and shipping books, handling returns, and so forth.

Suddenly, even though Googling a thing a week ago, I stumbled on some great Goo. Amazon, the on the web bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, producing it a separate Amazon division. Now I could take my book project, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, pay a fee, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for absolutely everyone to get. It ships inside 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty within 60 days, I can even get 5 copies for my mother at a discount!

I emailed BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I will contact Joseph (since his name is Joseph). I inquired about the specifics of publishing a book. For $599 I could get the hand-holding, send us your manuscript version of the publishing, or if I was brave, courageous, and could format my own PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author's Express plan to upload my book projects.

Since my book creation project was designed to be the forerunner of several far more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go.

I ran all over the site, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything at all else I could locate. The internet site recomends making use of Adobe -something or an additional- 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 have to function for me, given that that is what I had on my desktop, and I don't want to invest weeks studying but one more desktop publishing application, despite the fact that I am certain it is a excellent 1.

Apart from, I was already thinking about writing this web page, and I wanted to come up with a approach most anybody would be comfy with.

The only true shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no pictures on it. I figured my very first book is going to sell primarily if not entirely on Amazon, and a fairly cover is not that critical there. In any case, I can constantly go back and upgrade my edition (The added fee for resubmitting either the interior or the cover is $50, when the book is published.)

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