My book should now be available in e-Format at most major distributors. This includes Amazon, the Apple Store, B&N, Kobo and other places. There's a few issues.
A) I don't have the link to all of them. There's however two major places on where to get it in all formats:
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LMYS05K
and Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/448521
B) Some of you might notice a different price between the two. Rest assured, that the price should be 2.99 for both sites. If Amazon shows differently, it's, apparently, because it only shows the correct price in the region of the store. Which is really weird, but for now can't be helped. Please look up your region for Amazon or ask me for a direct link to it.
I had to go through Amazon Kindle Direct publishing to get the eBook on there, unfortuantely, and I'm still not quite happy about the fact that I had to. The bug mentioned above being one of the reasons...
But the book is up, so officially, the eBook part is released.
Sunday 13 July 2014
Saturday 21 June 2014
first review went up
Yay. =P
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roman-tibensky/natural-elimination-the-cotesia-incident/paperback/product-21586853.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roman-tibensky/natural-elimination-the-cotesia-incident/paperback/product-21586853.html
Saturday 10 May 2014
Publishing update
Cover's done.
Book is done.
Received my first hardcopy, still waiting before I start on eBooks.
I'm in the process of creating some sort of push for publicity. I'm negotiating a press release with lulu. I'm also looking for peeps who'd like to read the book and post feedback in return for a free copy. Still thinking up other ways to spread the word.
Book is done.
Received my first hardcopy, still waiting before I start on eBooks.
I'm in the process of creating some sort of push for publicity. I'm negotiating a press release with lulu. I'm also looking for peeps who'd like to read the book and post feedback in return for a free copy. Still thinking up other ways to spread the word.
Sunday 20 April 2014
First steps towards publishing
This being my first attempt at publishing, I took a while to reformat everything until I had the feeling that everything would fit. The redoing of the cover and adding the back cover took ages on its own, partly also due to the fact that lulu's page would not accept it in one of the formats it said it supported (another reason I dislike working with PDFs). The tech support never came back to me so I had to have the cover reformatted, which was an unfortunate blow to my wallet... again.
But all the minor setbacks aside, the book is finished and ready on lulu. The only thing remaining now is putting it up on Smashwords and approving the hardcopy to be sold at other retailers like amazon. To do the latter, I had to purchase an author copy and review it to see if I'm satisfied with the final product. Imagining holding said book in my hands makes me all sorts of nervous, truth be told, but it had to happen sooner or later.
Once that's done, all I need to do is set the timing right for the releases and prepare any promotional tools I can afford...
But all the minor setbacks aside, the book is finished and ready on lulu. The only thing remaining now is putting it up on Smashwords and approving the hardcopy to be sold at other retailers like amazon. To do the latter, I had to purchase an author copy and review it to see if I'm satisfied with the final product. Imagining holding said book in my hands makes me all sorts of nervous, truth be told, but it had to happen sooner or later.
Once that's done, all I need to do is set the timing right for the releases and prepare any promotional tools I can afford...
Sunday 2 March 2014
First impressions - Createspace... not really
This is where the first impressions of Createspace should have been posted.
Createspace s Amazon's take on the whole self publishing deal. It does not just encompass books, but also audio and DVD formats. It distributes through Amazon.
Sadly, I'm not really the best person to go anymore in depth than that. I've requested a consultation per their usual tools, got an automatic response with a form to fill out, but I after I sent that back, I have not received any further communication for two weeks. This may be because of my current country of residence, but whatever the reason may be, it poses a problem. If I can't communicate with the publisher, I can't rely on their service.
Smashwords does their best to give all the guidelines one could possibly hope for upfront. For Lulu I unfortunately failed to mention that I already did receive a consultation and the Lulu representative was very responsive and flexible.
Thus the choice in this case was made easier. I will try to upload the book to Lulu and Smashwords.
... wish me luck. XP
Createspace s Amazon's take on the whole self publishing deal. It does not just encompass books, but also audio and DVD formats. It distributes through Amazon.
Sadly, I'm not really the best person to go anymore in depth than that. I've requested a consultation per their usual tools, got an automatic response with a form to fill out, but I after I sent that back, I have not received any further communication for two weeks. This may be because of my current country of residence, but whatever the reason may be, it poses a problem. If I can't communicate with the publisher, I can't rely on their service.
Smashwords does their best to give all the guidelines one could possibly hope for upfront. For Lulu I unfortunately failed to mention that I already did receive a consultation and the Lulu representative was very responsive and flexible.
Thus the choice in this case was made easier. I will try to upload the book to Lulu and Smashwords.
... wish me luck. XP
Wednesday 19 February 2014
First impressons - lulu
As before, please keep in mind - anything I say in my first impressions is only an
impression before actually committing to anything -including the upload
of the actual manuscript. Results will be reported on down the line. I'm
still in the process of deciding on things.
Lulu's been around for more than a decade now and seems to be doing really well. Publishing with lulu is free and is available both in digital as well as print format, distributing books on their own website, Amazon, B&N and Ingram from what I could gather. I'd say it could be considered a high-end self-publishing service, as it allows the user to purchase almost any service from formatting through editing to promotion. If you do decide to go with the purchase of such services, you will quickly realise that publishing a book on a professional level is very expensive. I don't really blame lulu for this - it's a very time consuming job that demands a lot of expertise and high prices for such are not uncommon. Thus to help you out, they do offer service packages that can get you the basic services at a much lower cost, which for a limited time seems to include limited promotion in the form of a press release that is send to a plethora of news agencies.
Sadly, the bundles don't apply to me well, becase I've already invested time and money to get the basic formatting done already, thus the packs are much less viable for my purposes.
... but some of the promotional tools still look tempting.
Lulu's been around for more than a decade now and seems to be doing really well. Publishing with lulu is free and is available both in digital as well as print format, distributing books on their own website, Amazon, B&N and Ingram from what I could gather. I'd say it could be considered a high-end self-publishing service, as it allows the user to purchase almost any service from formatting through editing to promotion. If you do decide to go with the purchase of such services, you will quickly realise that publishing a book on a professional level is very expensive. I don't really blame lulu for this - it's a very time consuming job that demands a lot of expertise and high prices for such are not uncommon. Thus to help you out, they do offer service packages that can get you the basic services at a much lower cost, which for a limited time seems to include limited promotion in the form of a press release that is send to a plethora of news agencies.
Sadly, the bundles don't apply to me well, becase I've already invested time and money to get the basic formatting done already, thus the packs are much less viable for my purposes.
... but some of the promotional tools still look tempting.
Saturday 15 February 2014
First impressions - Smashwords
Please keep in mind - anything I say in my first impressions is only an impression before actually committing to anything -including the upload of the actual manuscript. Results will be reported on down the line. I'm still in the process of deciding on things.
Smashwords is purely an eBook publisher with an impressive reach, covering Amazon, B&N, Apple and a plethora of other retailers, including their own store. They don't seem to offer any paid services, sans a few DYI books (as far as I saw at least, I am fairly drugged on cold meds these days), but they offer a ton of free guides to publishing, videos and free literature. A good portion is meant for preparing your book for a Smashwords release, but they also do tips for marketing and the non-sense surrounding it.
As such, even if one would not want to publish and E-book, browsing through the free material Smashwords has to offer would not hurt, just to get a feel of for the industry. Personally, I feel that the owner overestimates the future growth of eBooks just a bit, but there's no denying that it's a rapidly growing market worth getting into sooner rather than later.
It's also worth noting that Smashwords apparently keeps a pool of artists one can commission for covers. As I'm not looking for one as of the moment, I have no made use of this service, but it's great to have a go to place when in need of a cover.
Smashwords is purely an eBook publisher with an impressive reach, covering Amazon, B&N, Apple and a plethora of other retailers, including their own store. They don't seem to offer any paid services, sans a few DYI books (as far as I saw at least, I am fairly drugged on cold meds these days), but they offer a ton of free guides to publishing, videos and free literature. A good portion is meant for preparing your book for a Smashwords release, but they also do tips for marketing and the non-sense surrounding it.
As such, even if one would not want to publish and E-book, browsing through the free material Smashwords has to offer would not hurt, just to get a feel of for the industry. Personally, I feel that the owner overestimates the future growth of eBooks just a bit, but there's no denying that it's a rapidly growing market worth getting into sooner rather than later.
It's also worth noting that Smashwords apparently keeps a pool of artists one can commission for covers. As I'm not looking for one as of the moment, I have no made use of this service, but it's great to have a go to place when in need of a cover.
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