Information about the second edition release of Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML & CSS. Just me and a camera and some inserts/overlays to explain what’s new in the book, what’s unchanged and who it’s aimed at. More info at http://beginningwebdesign.com/
Duration : 0:9:44
A promo video for my new book, “The Riddle of the Dream Master” which comes out February 10, 2012. For more information check out:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Riddle-of-the-Dream-Master/102170069884981
Copyright 2011 by the Prince’s Residence & C.M. Prince
Duration : 0:2:59
How to publish and sell a print book with Lulu.com
At Lulu you’re free to create all sorts of remarkable works from photo books and cookbooks, to calendars and eBooks. Today, we’re going to focus on teaching you how to publish your very own paperback or hardcover print book that you can sell to the millions of customers in the Lulu Marketplace, Amazon, and retail stores around the world.
Let’s begin by visiting the “publish” tab at Lulu.com. You can select from a range of products such as photo books and eBooks, but for today let’s focus on paperback and hardcover books.
Step 1: Getting Started
Click the “books” tab. Here you can look over all your paper, binding, and size options. Once you’re ready, click the “start publishing” button, which will launch the publishing wizard.
Step 2: Selecting Paperback or Hardcover
In the wizard, you can choose to create a paperback or hardcover book. The process is similar, but today, we’ll select “make a paperback book.”
Step 3: Title and Author Name
On the “Start a New Project” page, enter your book’s title along with your author name. And decide if you want to make you book available to the general public. Click “save & continue.”
Tip: You can change your book’s availability and add an ISBN at anytime, but it’s important to note ISBNs can only be applied to certain book sizes.
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Step 4: Choose Your Project Options
In this step you’ll apply your preferred paper type, sizing, binding, and choose a color or black and white interior. You can get an estimate of your book’s manufacturing cost using the cost calculator in the upper right hand corner. Click “save & continue.”
Step 5: ISBNs
You’ll need an ISBN to sell through retail channels around the world. You can add your own, or get a free ISBN from Lulu. Click “save & continue” to view all your ISBN options and you can save a copy of your ISBN to your computer.
Step 6: Add Your Files
You can upload Microsoft Word files, PDFs, RTFs, or Images such as .jpg, gif, and .png files by clicking the “browse” button. Once uploaded, you’ll see your file in the “Project files” section. Click “make print ready file.”
Step 7: Making Your Print-Ready File
If you’ve uploaded anything other than a PDF, we’ll convert your file to PDF for you. Review your PDF for errors, then click “save & continue.”
Step 8: Creating Your Cover
You can upload a cover designed by yourself, or you can pick from one of hundreds of our pre-made templates and themes that’ll make your work really stand out. Further customize your work by adding images from your computer. Click “upload your images,” then drag and drop onto your cover. Rotate, resize, and add text as needed. When finished, click “preview and make print-ready cover.” If everything looks good, click the “make print-ready cover” button.
Step 9: Making Your Print-Ready Cover
Once your cover is converted to a print-ready file, review your PDF for errors, then click “save & continue.”
Step 10: Describe Your Project
Select your book’s category, enter in any keywords to help customers find your work more easily, and add your description so readers will know what your book is about. You can also set language, copyright notice,license, and edition, and you can pick a publisher imprint for your work. Once finished, click “save and continue.”
Step 11: Pick Your Price
You’re free to set the price for your work beyond the manufacturing cost and you get to keep 80% of the profits. Once you set your price, you’ll see a breakdown of how much you’ll make on every sale through the Lulu Marketplace, as well as any other retail channels you may have selected. Once you’ve picked a competitive price, click “review project.”
Step 12: Review Your Project
Lastly, you’ll be able to review your settings and make any changes by clicking the “change” button located in any given section. Once you’ve gotten everything just the way you like it, click the “save and finish” button and you’ve successfully published a book on Lulu, ready to be sold to millions of customers all over the world. You can then view your book’s product page, purchase a copy of your work, or customize a preview for your readers.
Did you know?: Author Mark Twain originally self-published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884 by selling door to door. This work would go on to be called the first “Great American Novel.”
Be Remarkable
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Duration : 0:5:5
Learn how to export beautiful flash flipbooks directly from inDesign. My own book scaling feature is free to download at http://tinyurl.com/4hco7gc and you you can easily modify it in flash. Part 5 shows how to set up and modify the book scaler in Flash and your favorite text/html editor. Part 8 shows you how to customize the book using an external xml file
Duration : 0:11:56
Learn how to export beautiful flash flipbooks directly from inDesign. Part 2 covers preparing your graphic to blend with the page backgrounds. If you have photographic images, you won’t need to do this, but black and white line art will have white boxes around it if you don’t do this step. My own book scaling feature is free to download at http://tinyurl.com/4hco7gc You can easily modify it in flash or configure it externally with any text editor.
Duration : 0:10:13
How to Publish Your Book, Novel, or Short Story, Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishers
In this video fiction author George Weir gives you information about how to publish your book. He discusses the various option you have– self publishing or going the traditional route with a publisher. This video has lots of helpful tips and will help you look at publishing realistically.
Visit George Wier’s Website at;
http://www.georgewier.com/
This video was produced by Psychetruth
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Duration : 0:8:17
Join us for the Book Marketing Conference Online! http://www.kristenrecommends.com/marketing
Duration : 0:0:41
Monsters need friends too. The Wombaloo is a story about a monster that appears to be scary, but deep inside he has a cushy, friendly personality that endeavors to find a friend. He travels from forest, to prairie, to sea, to mountain top in hopes of accomplishing this. In the end he finally makes a friend when he uses his monster talents to save the life of a tiny little rabbit. This story is written using rhyme, moral, and word-play. Many young children have reluctance to meeting new people, and people who are different from them either out of fear, or cultural influence. My hopes with this story is to inspire the thought that, “Things are not always what they appear to be.” That even the roughest, and meanest looking fellow may in fact be the friendliest person in the world. May many come to love this story as much I enjoyed writing it.
To Purchase the Story Visit,
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https://www.createspace.com/3618443
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Duration : 0:0:58
Book marketing podcast, Book That Author presents Alexandra Clair. She is the author of the thriller novel Wood’s End. Book That Author is a weekly podcast that provides book marketing, book publicity and book publishing tips to authors. Exciting guests include some of the best PR companies in the business and indie authors that are doing outstanding things to promote their books. Join us for the show at www.bookmarketingprofessionals.com.
Duration : 0:0:25
Publishing Your Research 101 - http://pubs.acs.org/r/publishing101
The first episode in our series is an interview with Professor George M. Whitesides from Harvard University who has published nearly 600 papers with ACS Publications, and over 1100 articles overall, and has served on the advisory boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals.
http://pubs.acs.org/page/publish-research/episode-1.html
Duration : 0:8:40
