GranvilleSauter242

A long time ago, on a desktop far, far away... Who hasn't dreamed of not only writing their personal book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, having a copy for their bookshelf, acquiring 'five copies for my mother?'  Nicely, now you can do it for a $99 fee and some cybernetic elbow grease. This page will show you how I did it, and chances are you can do it too. I've been reading for several years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology exactly where you place in PDF files on a single end (1 for the cover, a single for the insides) and a stunning, ideal-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out the other. I've even seen the technologies in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that's my profession, by the way.) I've recognized other individuals who have utilized Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, such as my personal father. My dilemma with that is I have no room in my garage for books, I do not want to get involved in the approach of promoting and shipping books, handling returns, etc. your import export business plan Suddenly, even though Googling a thing a week ago, I stumbled on some amazing Goo. Amazon, the on-line bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, creating it a separate Amazon division. Now I could take my book project, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, pay a fee, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for everybody to get. It ships within 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty within 60 days, I can even get five copies for my mother at a discount! read import and export business I emailed BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I will contact Joseph (since his name is Joseph). I inquired about the details of publishing a book. For $599 I could get the hand-holding, send us your manuscript version of the publishing, or if I was brave, courageous, and could format my own PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author's Express program to upload my book projects. Given that my book creation project was designed to be the forerunner of several much more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go. I ran all more than the website, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything else I could find. The site recomends making use of Adobe -some thing or another- for text formating, and Adobe Acrobat 6 (not 7!) for PDF creation. I decided from the git-go that Microsoft Word and PDF Factory Pro would have to perform for me, because that is what I had on my desktop, and I do not want to invest weeks mastering however another desktop publishing application, though I am sure it is a great a single. Besides, I was currently thinking about writing this web page, and I wanted to come up with a procedure most any person would be comfortable with. The only true shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no pictures on it. I figured my 1st book is going to sell mainly if not completely on Amazon, and a fairly cover is not that essential there. In any situation, I can constantly go back and upgrade my edition (The extra fee for resubmitting either the interior or the cover is $50, as soon as the book is published.) Sample files and a total step by step description of how I formatted and published my 3 books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject try import export