Once your book is published, readers will pay the retail or list price to buy the book. Did someone comment on your post about your book? Try to find one that looks like it would make a good book cover on its own. Here’s a tutorial that I made on how to make a cool book cover – fontes dizem-me, with stock photos. Actually lists the benefits of reading the book. You need to get out and about in the community, talking at libraries and book fairs about your book–even if it is as simple as performing a reading. You can really describe the benefits of the end result of purchasing the book. And I know it can be confusing if you’ve never done it before. Know your audience: Do they expect Indiana Jones references or sharp analysis of Wall Street trades? At the very least, now, you know how to create book template Google Docs of your very own.

Verify whether you have the rights to distribute your book worldwide or only in certain territories. Where it asks about “Digital Rights Management”, I always select “Do not enable digital rights management”… Once you hit “Publish” for the ebook, KDP will give you a popup pop that asks if you want to go ahead and do the paperback. I hold the necessary publishing rights.” in the section where it asks.” in the section where it asks. There are advantages. Disadvantages to both publishing routes. Sentric Music does an 80/20 split, meaning you get 80% and they keep 20%. To join and use Sentric’s services is free, which is a great deal compared to most other music publishing companies that either make you pay per song/album or per month. I get to see 15-20 concepts for cover designs and then pick my favorite and pay the winner. The app itself is free, though you’ll have to pay to access and read ebooks using the app. Using books to champion voices ignored by mainstream media and publishers, Lit City Press is a small, independent publisher in Austin. It opens up so many opportunities to further push sales of existing and new books.

For books priced from $2.99 to $9.99, the royalty rate is 65%, which isn’t bad either. Amazon gives you 35% of the price of every book sold for $2.98 or under and up to 70% for every book priced between $2.99 and $9.99. Click on “Approve Book Proof” and you’re book will be processed to be available to all of your distribution channels. And that’s not including the added cost of including extended distribution channels that most POD publishers charge significantly for. There are other major streaming sites, including Hulu and Amazon Instant Video; video sharing site YouTube; TV channel sites such as HBO Go and Watch ABC; services that allow you to rent movies and TV shows, such as Google Play, iTunes and Vudu; and Redbox, which offers both online streaming and DVD rentals at special vending-machine-like kiosks. These categories don’t always match the categories that they will actually rank under inside Amazon. Even if people don’t buy your eBook immediately, they’re now on your list. If you want to go the pro route and don’t mind spending a little to get there, this is probably the best way. I’ve made some really great looking book covers this way.

Those are all terms that, if people searched them, would probably find my book relevant. There are other places to find stock images for free or for cheaper but the quality just isn’t the same. Peer review began as a system to establish quality for purposes of publication, but over the years it has become used for administrative functions. I can email that mailing list and ask them to leave a review on Amazon (boosting sales and credibility). A 25-word book review to the editorial team on this page. For example, if I’m doing a book about how to grow tomatoes, I wouldn’t simply describe the book as a book on tomato growing… Seeing as I know nothing about tomato growing. I would use language like “Imagine yourself biting in to the most delicious tomato that you’ve ever tasted, imagine the satisfaction of knowing that you just picked that tomato from your own garden only minutes ago… Some companies, like Pixable, now offer the capability of creating a photobook of your Facebook friends by collecting their profile photos and allowing you to pick and arrange the ones you want in your album. Not only will they show up, but they’ll eventually bring their friends.