How To Sell Your Own Book on Amazon for $99



by Harry Constantine


A while gone, on a desktop far, far away.. Who has not dreamed of not only writing their own book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, having a copy for their shelf, buying 'five copies for my mum?

Well, you can do it for a $99 cost and some cybernetic elbow grease. This page will demonstrate how i did it, and probabilities are that you can do it too. I have been reading for one or two years about Print On Demand, the neat new techology where you put in PDF files on one end ( One for the cover, one for the guts ) and an attractive, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out the other. My difficulty with that's I haven't got any room in my garage for books, I don't really wish to become involved in the technique of selling and shipping books, handling returns, and so on . All of a sudden, while Googling something a week gone, I stumbled on some fantastic Goo.

Amazon, the web Waterstone's, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, making it a new Amazon division. It ships within 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25 percent royalty within 60 days, I'll even buy 5 copies for my mum at a reduction! I emailed BookSurge and was allotted an account administrator, who I am going to call Joseph ( since his name is Joseph ). I inquired about the small print 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, bold, and could format my very own PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author's Express program to upload my book projects.

Since my book creation project was built to be the forerunner of a lot more titles, $99 appeared like the most clear way to go.

I decided from the git-go that MS Word and PDF Factory Pro would work for me, since that's what I had on my desktop, and I do not actually need to spend weeks learning yet one more desktop publishing application, though I am positively sure it's a very good one. The sole real shortcut I took is that my cover is straight text, with no pictures on it.




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