All going well I hope to have the e-book of Aalen’s Saga ready in January/February. I’m not sure what platforms it will be available on yet, but I’ll keep you posted on where it can be found. If this project is successful, then I have further ideas for e-books, so this could be the first of many.
Currently I have a friend who is an artist doing a cover and some interior artwork for the book.
If anyone is able to provide links with step by step instructions on how to make and publish an e-book that would be greatly appreciated š
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If you do decide to do Amazon, they have a pretty well-defined process you can get to on their site. However, Amazon is evil, so I understand not using them. If I were to self-pub, though, that’s the route I would end up taking because it’s well-known, reliable, and not a computer virus (just a morality virus, which people seem to be ok with). I really like the idea of Bookfunnel for publishing (mostly since it’s not Amazon), but they don’t make their money from eating at your sales – they make it by making you pay for their platform like renting a store. A reasonable method for a smaller company, but not really tenable unless you have some level of certainty regarding your sales.
Kerri Davidson of @bagoflettuce on Twitter has a unique method of book sales. You could look at her stuff and see what she’s done, but similarly I think it’d require buying a website platform for the storefront. One problem is likely digital rights management, or DRM, if you do it yourself.
If you’re giving it away free, you can make a PDF on WP, but don’t count on much. PDFs aren’t great for e-readers, and I can tell you from experience that the free account on WP won’t let you upload ebooks.
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I’m hoping to make some money from this as I’m broke. It’s going to be a very lean December and I’m hoping sales (whenever they might be) might give me enough to buy some second hand furniture for the flat.
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I don’t know what kind of money comes from any of this, to be honest. I haven’t tried because the dream is to publish traditionally, though that always seems farther away despite whatever progress I feel like I’ve made.
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A girl can dream.
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My intention is just to release collections of my flash fiction and short fiction as ebooks. I want to have a publisher to publish my longer works.
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Not sure this will help but…. it’s worth a look
https://justpublishingadvice.com/how-to-convert-word-to-epub/
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Thanks ā¤ļø
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š Always happy to help if I can
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Also, you can download Calibre for free and use it to convert to any e-pub format including Kindle. But if you’re going the Kindle route, Kindle Create is better.
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