Category: Publishing
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Formatting Your Book Blurb for Amazon
  The Book Blurb, or the book description, is one of the most important marketing issues an author needs to address. Getting that description “right” is so important.   Authors will often just write a little mini-version of their book, outlining the story, rather than write a proper description that includes a real…
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Publishing ebooks with Kobo
   What? Publish somewhere other than Amazon? Are you nuts?  So, many authors today tend to publish their ebooks exclusively through Amazon. There is an advantage to doing it that way, of course, as Amazon allows you some perks like countdown deals, free book days and to make your ebook available through…
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The Inside Take: What Is It Actually Like to Make a Book With a Professional Designer? (Guest Post)
Hey everyone, today we have a guest post from Martin Cavannagh. Martin is part of the team at Reedsy and is going to share a bit of his expertise with us! What Is It Actually Like to Make a Book With a Professional Designer? Working with a professional cover designer is like hiring a contractor…
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Using Square as an Author
 All right… let’s imagine a scenario. You are selling your books just fine on Amazon and other sites, but you have a case of printed paperbacks at home, and someone wants to buy one. Unfortunately, they only have a credit card on hand, and you’re not sure what to do… because you don’t know…
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Creating a Barcode for Your Book
 Barcodes on the backs of printed books sure do look cool, don’t they? They make your book look professional and as if you really know what you’re doing (it’s best to maintain that illusion). Barcodes aren’t always a big concern for many authors. If you publish printed books exclusively on Amazon, they offer to…
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How to Connect a Book to Your Goodreads Author Profile
Happy New Year, everyone! A little while ago I posted a blog about how to set up a Goodreads author page by claiming yourself as the author of a book (presumably that’s not a false claim on your part). Today I want to add a short blog about how to tie a new book to…
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Setting up Your Google Books Account
So… at the moment, Google Books is not accepting too many authors. I say that, yet I suspect that’s not entirely true. I put my name in to be one of the Google Books authors and within a week or two I was invited to be a part of their program. I suspect everyone can…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP Print
Okay, now that your ebook is set up, you should set up your paperback. You’ll need a high resolution (300dpi minimum) cover pdf including front, back and spine. I’ve been planning on blogging on cover files, but to the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t happened yet (although there are many times I’m not aware…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP ebook Part II
Alright, in the first part of this blog, we worked through how to setup your ebook details and content on KDP. This time, we’ll take a look at setting up pricing on KDP. Pricing your book can be a little trickier than you might think. ebook Pricing On your ebook pricing page, you start to…
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Setting up Your Book–KDP ebook Part I
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is Amazon’s means to get your book up for sale on Amazon Kindle (ebook). KDP is great to work with. It’s simple to use and their customer service is incredible. In this and the following blogs, I want to offer a simple walkthrough on how to setup your ebook and print…