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

Effectively, 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 a single finish (A single for the cover, a single for the insides) and a beautiful, perfect-bound, bookstore-good quality book comes out the other. I’ve even observed the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that’s my profession, by the way.)

I’ve recognized other men and women who have utilized Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, which includes my personal father. My difficulty with that is I have no area in my garage for books, I don’t want to get involved in the procedure of promoting and shipping books, handling returns, and so forth.

Abruptly, even though Googling some thing a week ago, I stumbled on some wonderful Goo. Amazon, the online 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, spend a fee, and VOILA! my book is on Amazon for every person to purchase. It ships within 48 hours, BookSurge pays me a 25% royalty within 60 days, I can even buy five 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 facts 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 own PDFs, for $99 I could use the Author’s Express plan to upload my book projects.

Considering that my book creation project was created to be the forerunner of many more titles, $99 seemed like the way to go.

I ran all over the site, downloading instance PDFs, submission guidelines, and anything at all else I could uncover. The website recomends using Adobe -something or yet another- 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 work for me, since that is what I had on my desktop, and I don’t want to invest weeks learning however another desktop publishing application, despite the fact that I am certain it is an excellent a single.

Besides, I was currently thinking about writing this page, and I wanted to come up with an approach most anyone would be comfy with.

The only real shortcut I took is that my cover is plain text, with no images on it. I figured my first book is going to sell largely if not entirely on Amazon, and a fairly cover is not that essential there. In any situation, I can often go back and upgrade my edition (The further fee for resubmitting either the interior or the cover is $50, after the book is published.)

Sample files and a complete step by step description of how I formatted and published my three books (so far!) is at www.actasif.com/bookproject

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