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A lengthy time ago, on a desktop far, far away...

Who hasn't dreamed of not only writing their personal book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, getting a copy for their bookshelf, purchasing 'five copies for my mother?'

Nicely, now you can do it for a $99 fee and some cybernetic elbow grease. This web page will show you how I did it, and probabilities are you can do it also. I've been reading for a number of years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology exactly where you place in PDF files on one particular end (1 for the cover, one particular for the insides) and a beautiful, excellent-bound, bookstore-good quality book comes out the other. I've even noticed the technologies in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that is my profession, by the way.)

I've known other men and women who have employed Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, which includes my own father. My problem with that is I have no room in my garage for books, I do not want to get involved in the approach of promoting and shipping books, handling returns, and so on.

All of a sudden, although Googling one thing a week ago, I stumbled on some wonderful Goo. Amazon, the on-line bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher named BookSurge, creating it a separate Amazon division. Now I could take my book project, upload it to Amazon/BookSurge, pay a fee, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for absolutely everyone to buy. It ships inside 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty inside 60 days, I can even purchase 5 copies for my mother at a discount!

I emailed BookSurge and was assigned an account manager, who I will call Joseph (since his name is Joseph). I inquired about the particulars 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, courageous, and could format my personal PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author's Express plan to upload my book projects.

Given that my book creation project was developed to be the forerunner of a lot of far more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go.

I ran all more than the website, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything at all else I could uncover. The website recomends utilizing Adobe -one thing or an additional- for text formating, and Adobe Acrobat 6 (not 7!) for PDF creation.

I decided from the git-go that Microsoft Word and PDF Factory Pro would have to perform for me, given that that is what I had on my desktop, and I don't want to invest weeks understanding but an additional desktop publishing application, though I am certain it is a excellent a single.

Apart from, I was currently thinking about writing this page, and I wanted to come up with a method most anyone would be comfortable with.

The only real shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no pictures on it. I figured my initial book is going to sell mainly if not entirely on Amazon, and a fairly cover is not that crucial there. In any situation, I can constantly go back and upgrade my edition (The extra fee for resubmitting either the interior or the cover is $50, once the book is published.)

Sample files and a full step by step description of how I formatted and published my three books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject inside import export business plan read importing exporting business my import export books