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A extended time ago, on a desktop far, far away...

Who hasn't dreamed of not only writing their own book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, possessing a copy for their bookshelf, getting 'five copies for my mother?'

Effectively, 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 probabilities are you can do it also. I've been studying for numerous years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology exactly where you place in PDF files on one particular end (A single for the cover, one for the insides) and a lovely, ideal-bound, bookstore-top quality book comes out the other. I've even observed the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that is my profession, by the way.)

I've identified other men and women who have used Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, like my own father. My issue with that is I have no area in my garage for books, I don't want to get involved in the approach of promoting and shipping books, handling returns, and so forth.

Abruptly, although Googling some thing a week ago, I stumbled on some amazing Goo. Amazon, the online bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, producing 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 everybody to acquire. It ships within 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty within 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 (since his name is Joseph). I inquired about the specifics 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.

Since my book creation project was designed to be the forerunner of numerous more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go.

I ran all over the site, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and something else I could uncover. The web site recomends utilizing Adobe -one thing or yet 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 devote weeks mastering however an additional desktop publishing application, despite the fact that I am positive it is a very good 1.

In addition to, I was already thinking about writing this web page, and I wanted to come up with a method most any individual would be comfy with.

The only true shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no pictures on it. I figured my first book is going to sell largely if not completely on Amazon, and a fairly cover is not that crucial there. In any situation, I can usually 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 total step by step description of how I formatted and published my 3 books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject import and export business chat guide to import from china china importing investigation