Forum: Back in Print! Keeping Your Back List Available

BACK IN PRINT Lecture #6: PubIt! from Barnes and Noble for NOOK Here we are at the final lecture of this workshop, and as PubIt! only came available this Fall, it’s still new and working out the kinks. How do I know? I’m one of those who’s feeling kinked, but I’m not alone. Apparently I am one of a number of people who had trouble loaded the text of their book successfully to PubIt! And I’m not the only one who is frustrated by the PubIt! Help Desk never answering any emails sent to...

BACK IN PRINT Lecture #5: Loading to Kindle Loading to Kindle. Were those magic words? For some of you, perhaps, since I do know Kindle was one of the draws for this workshop. Let’s dive right in then. 1. If you already have an Amazon account, you’re one step into the process. If you don’t, now’s the time to get one. Personally, I couldn’t live without mine since the nearest major bookstore is nearly 30 miles away. My choices are the local used books shoppe (yep, that’s how they...

Er...that should be Lecture #4 FORMATTING for Kindle as we have to do that first. We'll Load to Kindle in Lecture #5 on Friday. Just wanted to sort that out as I got my wires crossed. Happens when there's a lecture every day sometimes. The Oops Curse steps in. BACK IN PRINT Lecture #4: Formatting for KINDLE! If you haven’t done any formatting of your manuscript yet, you’ll need to go back and pick up what I said our very first week. With just a couple differences:

BACK IN PRINT Lecture #3: Creating a Cover You’ll need some things ahead of time when it comes to creating your cover: 1) Back cover blurb 2) Publicity photo if you want to use one on the back cover (needs to be a .jpg file)

BACK IN PRINT Lecture #2: Formatting for POD Ready? Let’s hope so! What we’re going to be doing is setting the manuscript up as a 6x9 trade paperback. Here’s how we do it: First, let’s open your manuscript and get ready to change things.

BACK IN PRINT Lecture #1: Print On Demand Ever noticed how authors with successful careers say things about self-publishing that are enough to crush the most buoyant of spirits? They don’t seem to realize that there a lot of reasons that people are interested in self-publishing, and only some of them reflect badly on the publishing industry. Others are quite legitimate. What are these “okay” reasons? How about these? 1) You have backlist titles from one or more publishers where the...