"Thank you, Woven Red, for the lovely files for my ebook and print book. Um... what do I do with them?" You upload them to vendor sites. "Um... where?" That depends on how easily you want readers to find your books and how much time and money you're willing to invest to get them there. … Continue reading Distribution Dilemma
Category: Self-pub Tips
Book Formats
"Which file formats do I need to load my book to vendors and distributors?" In the beginning, you needed a MOBI for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), and an EPUB for all the other vendors and distributors. Very few sites accepted Word documents. Formats have evolved since the early days of self-publishing. Let's look at what … Continue reading Book Formats
Why Do a Print Book?
Why pay extra to have a print book formatted and covered when ebooks sell so much better? It all comes down to a story. 😉 Imagine this... You're sitting at a book-signing with about fifty other authors. The room is buzzing with excitement and energy. Hundreds of readers are strolling the room, laughing and chatting … Continue reading Why Do a Print Book?
Why Does Non-fiction Cost More to Format?
"The non-fiction price is so much more than the fiction price. Isn't a book just a book?" Yes and no. Don't you hate answers like that? Similarities All professionally-formatted print books have some things in common: praise for the author section title page copyright page acknowledgment dedication content broken into chapters about the author section, … Continue reading Why Does Non-fiction Cost More to Format?
Five Giveaways to Amateur Self-Publishing
How can you tell, at a glance, if the print book in your hands has been expertly formatted? Turn to the first page of the first chapter and look at five things: 1) Page Headers On the first page of each chapter, page headers are correct in their absence. That's right, there aren't any; no author or book … Continue reading Five Giveaways to Amateur Self-Publishing
What Does Your Friendly Formatter Need to Format Your Book?
The must-have items are the manuscript, title page, and copyright page in a Word document and the ebook cover as a jpeg. Sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? Until you look between the covers. Yep, pun intended. 🙂 Grab a book from your shelf and let's go through it from front to back and identify all … Continue reading What Does Your Friendly Formatter Need to Format Your Book?
Why Your eBook Doesn’t Look Like Your Print Book
"It looks fabulous!" said a client of the print book I delivered. "It makes me happy just to flip through it!" "It's so... um... consistent?" said the same client when reviewing her ebook. "Why don't the two books look the same?" True observations and a common question. As shown in figures A and B, samples of … Continue reading Why Your eBook Doesn’t Look Like Your Print Book
Woven Red Author Services 