A Detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and Other Online Booksellers: How to Print-On-Demand with Createspace Make eBooks for Kindle Oth by Chris McMullen

A Detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and Other Online Booksellers: How to Print-On-Demand with Createspace Make eBooks for Kindle Oth Reviews

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  Victoria Osborne

  Are you Ready to Self Publish
  As my little house takes off and more people are sending in manuscripts I find myself drawn to books on formatting and how to publish using the print on demand services. I stumbled across this guide “A detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and other Online Booksellers, Volume 1”
  If you are just starting out this book is full of formatting tips, choosing a publisher, creating book covers and publishing both print and ebooks. There are two volumes to this book but I believe that they could both be combined in one volume.
  I have several issues with this book. The biggest on is that they are in love with Amazon to the detriment of the other opportunities out there. They only briefly mentioned Lightning Source, which is the only print on demand printer that will take back returns.
  The printed word is actually growing, and who knows where the ebook will go. Despite the favor among smart phones and tablets, many people still prefer an ereader the epaper and eink is much easier to read than the glare of the screens of tables and smart phones.
  There are so many more opportunities out there. For that reason, though he has many great tips I have to give it three stars. If it was more general or talked about other publishers more it would have gotten more stars, but for me, I am rooting for the little guy. The indie bookstore, the small press, we need to take back our books from Amazon. Therefore books on self publishing or starting your own imprint should embrace more than createspace and kdp.
  Just my two cents worth.
  
  
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  Mary

  I received this book from Goodreads First read program. I was interested in this particular book because I've always written stuff for myself, but I've never published any works. I knew next to nothing about publishing.
  
  This book has really helped me understand the process and made me aware of what I need to think about when writing and editing a novel if I wish to publish it. I do need to get Volume One since I need a better understanding of the process, but I learned a lot from this volume. I will keep it and use it for future reference. It's definitely easy to navigate, so I can see myself using it frequently through the process of writing.
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  B. D. Satterfield

  I laughed at some of the other folks' review of this book. Let's clarify in the title, Chris only shows us how to publish on Amazon! He also states in the book to develop your own book narrative - while self-promotion and book marketing isn't covered in this book...
  
  That said, I could have used this book in 2012. I read it in 2017 after hiring a scam company (in 2015) to self-publish my first memoir/book and to market it for me. After reading this book and numerous other self-publishing books, I set off to republish my release and developed from this book my own paperback and ebook templates to use via LibreOffice. Which I've done in 2017 and 2018 from information I learned in this book.
  
  Chris provides easy to understand step by step guides for interior and exterior software files. Learning self-publishing techniques has it's own parameters and language. For me, this book was a decent reference to cover my learning curve. It's one impressive thing to write a book manuscript. It's a completely as impressive, yet separate subject to use software to make the manuscript a physical ebook or paperback.
  
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  NaTaya Hastings

  ***I won this book through the First Reads giveaway contest!***
  
  I haven't finished this book in its entirety yet, but I've read enough to be able to write a helpful review. The book was quite helpful. I am a published author myself, but I always go through a third party to publish my books. Recently, however, I've been thinking about getting into self publishing. This book -- sadly for me -- is volume two. I imagine the author covered some of the super basic stuff in volume one, which I definitely need to get. However, volume two has some good information too. The book is set up into four sections: editing your proof, creating author pages, useful tips about online sellers, and marketing strategies. (It also tells what was in volume one, which is how I know I need to get it.) There is also an abstract at the beginning of each section which explores, in detail, what the chapter will contain. There is some very good, practical stuff in there, such as what kind of common errors to look for while proofing and which color schemes to use to make your book noticeable and easy to see. The section on marketing your book was particularly good.
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  Jodi Sousa

  A nice introductory guide to self-publishing online. The title says 'Detailed' and it truly is! Author discusses pros and cons of different vendors. As a Librarian who has presented on the same subject, I'd feel confident recommending this title to an inquiring patron. (The book was won in a goodreads giveaway contest)
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  Andrew Gronosky

  Limited usefulness. It covers that basics but strongly emphasizes Amazon and CreateSpace. Lacks meaningful advice on how to get readers to know about your book or want to read it.
  
  The author claims an editor is unnecessary, and demonstrates what happens when you don't have one: a repetitive, longwinded book with glaring gaps in coverage.
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  Inga Aksamit

  This was a very good introduction to publishing ebooks and paperbacks on Amazon. It was easy to follow and had personal recommendations based on the author's experience.
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  Alan McClain

  Must reading for authors who wish to get started with publishing on Amazon.
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  Alan McClain

  From the expert on self-publishing books with Createspace, this volume is an excellent guide for independent authors.
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  Jodi

  Great, helpful guidelines for self-publishing