Publish Your EBook!

Since the invention of the printing press, which has always been an unwieldy machine beyond the practical means of most authors, you either obtained your own press – like Benjamin Franklin, for example, who proudly self-identified as a printer even after he’d gained world renown as an American Revolutionary statesman – or your work had to satisfy an agent, editor or publisher before you could even start to think about communicating with your audience. The system was rigged, and authors like you remained creatively and economically subservient to the publishing industry’s gatekeepers and to someone else’s idea of what your audience should be offered.

Ben Franklin got around the gatekeepers by becoming his own gatekeeper – he owned his own printing press and became the first Postmaster General of the fledgling country he helped to found, which afforded him great deals and exclusive self-service on publishing and distribution. That’s a hard act to follow but the internet gets around this for the modern author. Thanks anyway, Ben!

You will learn how to:

• Gather free and low-cost tools
• Design & create your cover image
• Craft and place illustrations
• Format your manuscript
• Find and use special fonts
• Place and use bookmarks
• Create a custom interactive TOC
• Look neat on small screens
• Format lines of poetry
• Format for dynamic reflow
• Guard against disappearing text
• Check for syntax errors
• Scan for broken links
• Convert to ePub & device formats
• Pre-market your book launch
• Preview for different devices
• Obtain an ISBN and copyrights
• Pre-assess DRM protection
• Stage your book launch
• Submit to publishing platforms
• Set up evergreen marketing

Publish Your eBook! lays it all out for you based on a lifetime of personal and industry experience.

Best viewed in color. For use in the Kindle desktop or mobile app or on any Kindle Fire or newer device. Not yet tested on other devices.