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

That has not dreamed of not only writing their own guide, but seeing it in publications o-n Amazon.com, having a replica for their bookshelf, buying 'five copies for my mother'?

Well, you can now do-it for some cybernetic elbow grease and a $99 charge. This page will show you how I did it, and chances are you may do it too. Aircaseopo / Colou Rlovers contains further concerning the inner workings of it. I've been reading for several years about Print On Demand, the nice new techology where you devote PDF documents on one end (One for the address, one for the interiors) and a lovely, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out the other. I've also seen the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that is my career, by the way.)

I have known as a way to self-publish, including my very own father others who have used Print On Demand (POD). My problem with that is I've no place within my garage for books, I do not want to get involved in the process of attempting to sell and shipping books, handling earnings, and so on.

Suddenly, while Googling something a week ago, I came upon some great Goo. Amazon, the internet bookstore, has absorbed a POD writer named BookSurge, which makes it a different Amazon department. Now I could pay a price, distribute it to Amazon/BookSurge, take my book project, and VOILA! my book is o-n Amazon for all to get. It delivers within 48 hours, BookSurge pays a 25% royalty to me within 60 days, I could also buy five copies for my mother at a discount!

I sent BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I'll call Joseph (because his name is Joseph). Clicking macbook air 11 inch case probably provides aids you might use with your dad. I inquired about the details of writing a book. For $599 I could have the hand-holding, mail us your manuscript version of the writing, 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.

$99 seemed just like the approach to take, since my book creation project was made to be the precursor of several more titles.

I ran all around the site, downloading case PDFs, submission guidelines, and whatever else I could find. The website recomends applying Adobe -something or another- for text formating, and Adobe Acrobat 6 (not 7!) for PDF creation.

I decided in the git-go that Microsoft Word and PDF Factory Pro would have to work for me, because that is what I had on my desktop, and I do not need to spend weeks learning another desktop publishing program, although I am sure it is a great one.

Besides, I was already thinking about writing these pages, and I wanted to come back up with an activity most anyone could be comfortable with. Click here amazon macbook case to learn the reason for this viewpoint.

Really the only secret I took is that my address is plain text, without any images about it. I figured my first book will offer largely if not entirely on Amazon, and a pretty cover is not that important there. In any case, I could always go back and upgrade my model (The extra charge for resubmitting either the interior or even the cover is $50, once the book is published.)

Test files and an entire step-by-step description of how I arranged and posted my three books (therefore far!) are at www.actasif.com/bookproject.