Episode 11 In this episode I talk about Author Websites. Do you need an Author Website? No. Is it something worth thinking about setting up – definitely. You can set up things like e-mail subscriptions using services like mailchimp and have them host the sign-up page – you don’t need a website to collect e-mail addresses. […]
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Side-Loading and Selling Direct
Episode 10 In this episode I cover two related topics – side-loading an eBook and selling eBooks direct from your own website. I first explain what side-loading is, that is the process of transferring an eBook file onto a device apart from a computer so you can read it elsewhere. As promised in the episode […]
Judge a Book By Its Cover, Everyone Else Does!
If you want to self-publish an eBook or paperback book you will need a cover.
Creating a Paperback Book via Createspace
In this episode, I discuss the process of using the Createspace service to make your paperback book available on Amazon.
The World outside Amazon
There are a huge number of E-book stores apart from Amazon. Outside the US and the UK, Amazon are not the dominant player in E-book distribution, so to limit yourself to Amazon is not a good idea from an international perspective.
In this episode I talk about two “aggregators”, Draft2Digital and Smashwords and the relative merits of each. You will learn how to self-publish your eBook on stores apart from Amazon.
How to Self-Publish an eBook
In this episode I take you through why you might want to self-publish an eBook first in most cases. I also take you through the ways you can create an eBook via using a tool like Scrivener or via Word. Scrivener is the tool I use and is a fantastic tool for planning and organising writing as well as for generating ePubs.