Self-Publish Your E-Book in Minutes!

By Nicola Furlong
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Published: June 23, 2010
Words: 3,912 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780981209159

Short description

This brief how-to primer, written by a published author and electronic publisher, offers 10 simple steps anyone can follow to publish their work as an e-book within minutes and have it available for sale in online bookstores. It succinctly covers all the essentials, like formatting, uploading and marketing, everything a self-published author needs to start selling!

Extended description

This brief how-to primer, written by a published author and electronic publisher, offers 10 simple steps anyone can follow to publish their work as an e-book within minutes and have it available for sale in online bookstores.

It succinctly covers all the essentials, offering easy, practical advice on formatting and uploading your manuscript using Smashwords, e-book cover designs, marketing online and in print, how much to offer as a free sample, bookstore distribution opportunities and price choices...everything a self-published author needs to start selling!

Recent buyers have said: (Read more) This brief how-to primer, written by a published author and electronic publisher, offers 10 simple steps anyone can follow to publish their work as an e-book within minutes and have it available for sale in online bookstores.

It succinctly covers all the essentials, offering easy, practical advice on formatting and uploading your manuscript using Smashwords, e-book cover designs, marketing online and in print, how much to offer as a free sample, bookstore distribution opportunities and price choices...everything a self-published author needs to start selling!

Recent buyers have said:

- Thanks for the tips! A fast and easy guide to self-publishing. It is simple and clear…you will find this very useful if, prior to, you had no idea exactly what it entails to get your book ready and published and into e-book shops.

- Clear info and a lot of it. Feel I could do an e-book now!

- Comprehensive and relevant…covered all the questions from simple to complex.

- ...like your “little primer”; it’s a quick read that shows how to get published!

EXCERPT: INTRODUCTION

Attention writer! Any of the following sound familiar?

- Already been published but sales and opportunities are fading?
- Have struck out trying to find a traditional print publisher?
- Heard of Print on Demand and other forms of self-publishing but are wary of costs?
- But still aching to get your work into readers’ hands?

Well, take heart. You can do so right now in an extremely inexpensive yet effective way. It's called electronic publishing and as you read this, millions of people all over the world are enjoying e-books, using an e-reader like an iPhone, a Kindle or a Nook or their computer screen.

So...why aren't they reading your work? They're reading mine. I'm a multi-published mystery author who turned my mystery novels into instant cash as e-books and they are currently in the catalogue of a number of major online book-selling sites, like the Amazon Kindle Store, Kobobooks.com and iTunes.com.

If you want to get onto the fastest growing publishing wagon since Gutenberg invented the printing press, then grab on and let's ride! Just follow the 10 simple steps in my brief how-to primer to self-publish your e-book in minutes and start selling it online.
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Tags

writing, writing skills, publishing, reference

Available ebook reading formats

Single purchase gains access to all formats. How to download ebooks to e-reading devices and apps.

Format	Full Book	Sample First 25%
Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)	Buy	View sample
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps)	Buy	Download sample
Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)	Buy	Download sample
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing)	Buy	No sample available
RTF (readable on most word processors)	Buy	No sample available
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don't support .epub)	Buy	Download sample
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)	Buy	Download sample
Plain Text (download) (flexible, but lacks much formatting)	Buy	No sample available
Plain Text (view) (viewable as web page)	Buy	No sample available

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