So
you’ve written your book and you want to publish it on the Kindle or the
Apple store or the Nook.
What do you do next? #1 purchase your ISBN Number here.
http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp
1) While you are in the process of getting your ISBN and you
should also get a UPC code if you are going to sell your book in print.
2) You need to format the book
3) You need to know about the back end of Amazon Kindle/IPad
and how to use the sales pages as well as the other platforms (Nook.
KOBO, Sony) where you could sell your book3
Yes, you can read some documents, download some software and
do it yourself. But if you want to save yourself time,
energy and frustration, or you just don’t fancy playing with HTML, then
try one of our packages.
Need formatting of your plain text file to Kindle
format so you can just upload the file on the Kindle publishing
platform?
No worries.
Sandy
Hall is the author, Editor and Publisher of
Almost There! and Street
Crime Unit by Donald Burns. You can find her books on Blurb.com,
Kindle and Amazon. She is a real author and has done all of her works,
webs and books
herself and for others. She knows the importance of formatting for
Kindle/Nook and iPad sales. Blue Feather Web and Publishing also completes e-book
conversions with Major US Companies, as well as cover design,
typesetting, editing and pagination. The charges listed below are
for Plain Text and not for Photo intense books. Contact us for
your custom conversions.
Basic Package: Plain Text up to 200
pages for Kindle or/ epub formatting US $300
Double package: Plain Text up to 200
pages Kindle AND epub formatting US $600
Mega e-book publishing package: Kindle
AND e-pub formatting + E-book cover design US $900
Colorful Image Intense Publishing Package: 200+ pages
per format conversion US $1200+
If you want to discuss or proceed with one of these
packages, please email Sandy directly at
Sandy@BlueFeatherWebDesign.com
or BluFthr@aol.com
She will then take you through the process. You will need to provide
1. Your name and book title
2. The book itself in a recognized word processing document format
(Word, .txt etc. or editable PDF for e-book conversion)
3. A description of the book: the back blurb. No more than 100 words,
provoking description.
4. A few words to categorize your book (fiction, thriller, historical
etc). No more than 12. These are for meta-tags that help categorize your
book when you go to sell it.
5. Book covers: 2 color graphics files, preferably .jpg in a high
resolution but most image files are acceptable OR/ if you would like a
cover designed, then some ideas of what you are looking for.
6. If your book contains graphics or illustrations, you’ll need to
supply each one as a separate .jpg file. Please be aware that because
e-books free-flow their text according to the individual reader/e-reader
software, pictures can never be positioned on an e-book page in exactly
the same way as a printed page, and your book has to be repaginated for
placement but you must tell us which pages you want
the photos on. We will do our very best to make it look
GREAT! Paragraphs will be formatted per specs for each reader.
**Please note: These packages are most suitable for plain text
books with a few images and no multi-media. If you have a complicated
book with a lot of image formatting or multi-media requirements, videos,
sound, explain to us the complexity and we will do our very best to
quote you a fair price for the work that will be involved.**
You have the file, but what do you do with it?
Sandy will provide you with information on how to upload onto the
Kindle/i-Pad/Nook but you will need to read up on KDP publishing, NOOK
publishing, and iPAD Publishing and formatting first. There is a charge for
consulting with Sandy for every step of the way no matter where you are
in the publishing journey her fees are less than nominal.
