Publishing your book on Kindle® – 2012 Instructions

This is a composite article covering How to Submit Your Book to the Kindle E-Book Store and a Simplified Formatting Guide for Kindle.

Since I wrote my books Self Publishing for the Clueless® and E-Publishing for the Clueless® books, Amazon®, has changed and improved their system consequently the characteristics of the Kindle® system and how your book might look on the Kindle® reader might not loom like you want it to if you don’t follow the guidelines.

Here are some guidelines and things for you consider about putting your book on the Kindle® system

Raise Funds for Your Company or Project Online

Great ideas are plentiful, but the money to make them work isn’t always as easy to come by.

One way to get your business idea or project off the ground is to forget about bank loans and instead ask investors–people who actually want to see your idea succeed–for a little pocket money.

Web Site Software Comparison

Because most of the people that we train and deal with are NOT computer programmers or technically super savvy, we’ve done research on a lot the available web site creation software and listed our findings, along with our recommendations.

The Shelf Life of a Book

Predictions about the meteoric rise of E-Books are usually accompanied by dire forecasts that bemoan the demise of print books.

I’ll agree that the world of digital and tablet computing has created a meteoric rise in the number of e-books and readers but is paper really going away?

When radio was introduced, the demise of paper books was predicted.

Guess what? It didn’t nor did television, the internet nor the web.

Library of Congress – Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP) and Catalog Card Number

Library of Congress - Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP) and Catalog Card Number

A Library of Congress catalog card number is a unique identification number that the Library of Congress assigns to the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.

Librarians use it to locate a specific Library of Congress catalog record in the national databases and to order catalog cards from the Library of Congress or from commercial suppliers.

The Library of Congress assigns this number while the book is being cataloged. Under certain circumstances, however, a card number can be assigned before the book is published through the Pre-assigned Card Number Program (PCN).

Without this data your book could sit in a library for several months before personnel know how to log it or where to put it. By participating in CIP, you will be provided pertinent information that can be printed right on the copyright page of your book.

How To Sell Your eBook In The Apple iBook Store

I’ve been informed by many of my E-publishing seminar attendees that apple has made it impossible for them to sell their e-books though the Apple IBook store.

This isn’t exactly true although they’re not the easiest on-line e-book seller to work with.

To help stock the iBook store with plenty of titles, Apple has came up a way for you to sell your eBook in their iBook store!

They’ll list your e-book for FREE, but you MUST comply with their guidelines for listing in the Apple iBook store (Like mandating that you must use a Macintosh® computer).

Creating quick and easy YouTube Videos

My current needs for a video Blog and some client communications led me to set up a webcam and related software.

After working with everything from the software that came with my webcam through some really exotic software packages, I discovered that there are a lot of inequities in the software/hardware combinations that results in poor picture quality including video lag, distorted audio and horrific sync problems between the audio and video.

Since failure was NOT an option, I started researching the solutions and it turns out that everything you need is available, on-line, for free.

Meetup™ – A Great Blend of Virtual and Actual Interactions

Do you want to communicate with other people who have your same interests or concerns?

Since the internet entered the mainstream in the 1990’s, on-line networking has helped to fuel its explosive growth to what we see it as today.

The original networking groups were called UseNet News Groups and consisted of simple typed text messages.

As technology advanced, these UseNet News Groups were replaced by more sophisticated tools like BLOGS that have allowed the addition of color, graphics, photos, audio and video.

Promoting Your Book on Talk Radio

Congratulations on having a published book.

•  As a published author, you have now become a published expert on your topic.
• As a published author, you’d like to sell more books, wouldn’t you?

Since marketing is a numbers game, exposing yourself and your book on a talk radio show will help increase your visibility and reach large numbers of potential buyers.

Don’t Die With Books In Your Garage!

Don’t Die With Books In Your Garage!

 The Ten Best Ways to Market Your Self Published Book!

 

• Are you an author with a lot of unsold books in your garage?
• Would you like to swap these dead trees for spending cash?
• Would you like to do this without incurring a lot of debt?

If you’re one of the glut of people who have written a book, self-published it, and now can’t seem to give it away, let alone sell it, I’ve got the answers for you.