![]() ![]() If you can use a word processor, have a book written---or have an idea for one---and want to see your name in print, you just might have what it takes to succeed in self-publishing. This six-week course introduces you to everything you need to know to do a professional job of turning your manuscript into a book that will help you make money on the Internet, whether you want to self-publish a novel, a nonfiction book, or a picture book. You will learn how to format your e-book and get it ready to sell through bookstores like Amazon and Apple. By the end of the course, you could have your e-book published in over 100 countries worldwide and available to libraries and book clubs. ![]() This course and its follow-up Introduction to Writing Markets, take you step-by-step through publishing your own e-books and building your writer’s platform or brand, to be successful selling them. Take the first step to publishing success, and sign up today. ![]() If you want to get noticed in the digital age, you have everything you need to start sharing your message today—fingers, keyboard, and the Internet. In your first lesson, you will meet some successful trailblazers in the e-book industry, find out which e-book genres sell best, discover how much money you can make publishing your own e-books, and explore the difference between fixed, reflowable, and responsive format e-books. Then you will start getting your e-book ready for publication, much like you would prepare a great manuscript for an editor at a publishing house. You will find out how to use tools to insure proper grammar, spelling and style. This lesson is about your title page and all the front and back matter you want to add. You will need to consider the author name you want to use. Once you have typed all the information into your book and formatted it, you will learn how to add a table of contents and hyperlinks, so your reader can move around easily. Then you will learn how to find free images and add them to your e-book. You will learn how to manage images differently for fixed format, reflowable format, and responsive format e-books. You will also learn how to check the file size of your book and ensure that it meets bookseller and distributor requirements. Once you have everything just the way you want it, you will learn how to convert your book file to PDF. Learn some secrets traditional publishers use to market their e-books. You will explore options for converting your manuscript into an e-book to sell. By the end of this lesson you will have finished your initial marketing, and your book file will be ready to convert to formats for e-readers. You will learn how to use an e-book management tool to do a number of different things, from organizing your own e-book library to converting your e-book to a multitude of formats. The tool you will be using is Calebre. Linda Aksomitis has a master's degree in adult vocational/technical education, with a minor in English. She has published 25 books for readers of all ages (fiction and nonfiction), including numerous e-books, and she has a few thousand publications in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet. She's been an acquisitions editor for an e-publisher, Webmaster of half a dozen websites, managing editor and Webmaster for an Internet magazine, and she maintains two active blogs. Linda traces all of her publishing success to the Internet and the contacts she's made in cyberspace. Distribution on the web You can distribute works you've created with iBooks Author on the web as a standalone purchase or subscription product or service. When you sell your book on the web, it must be in a non.ibooks format. Examples of a non.ibooks format include PDF and ePub. If you wish to sell your work in the.ibooks format, it may be sold only through the iBooks Store. When you provide a work for free, you can distribute it in any format (including.ibooks) through the iBooks Store or by other means.
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