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A lengthy 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, obtaining 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 web page will show you how I did it, and chances are you can do it as well. I've been studying for a number of years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology exactly where you place in PDF files on one particular end (One particular for the cover, 1 for the insides) and a beautiful, best-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out the other. I've even observed the technologies in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that is my profession, by the way.)

I've identified other people who have used Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, like my personal father. My difficulty with that is I have no room in my garage for books, I do not want to get involved in the method of selling and shipping books, handling returns, and so on.

Abruptly, although Googling a thing a week ago, I stumbled on some fantastic Goo. Amazon, the on-line bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, making it a separate Amazon division. Now I could take my book project, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, spend a fee, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for every person to buy. It ships within 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty inside 60 days, I can even purchase five copies for my mother at a discount!

I emailed BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I will call Joseph (because his name is Joseph). I inquired about the particulars 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 personal PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author's Express plan to upload my book projects.

Given that my book creation project was created to be the forerunner of a lot of a lot more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go.

I ran all more than the internet site, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything at all else I could discover. The internet site recomends employing Adobe -one 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 operate for me, considering that that is what I had on my desktop, and I do not want to spend weeks studying yet an additional desktop publishing application, though I am certain it is a great one.

Apart from, I was currently thinking about writing this web page, and I wanted to come up with a approach most any person would be comfy with.

The only genuine shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no images on it. I figured my initial book is going to sell mainly if not entirely on Amazon, and a pretty cover is not that crucial there. In any case, I can always go back and upgrade my edition (The additional fee for resubmitting either the interior or the cover is $50, as soon as the book is published.)

Sample files and a full step by step description of how I formatted and published my 3 books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject guide to import from china business importing from china import & export business