Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Every year we try to do something special for Christmas. This year we started back in October publishing Christmas editions on Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble’s Nook Press is extremely slow to update information and their software is much poorer quality than Amazon’s KDP Publishing. In addition to that, it takes them six months to update publisher information so authors can actually get paid. Needless to say we were eventually forced to nix that idea and move to Amazon. Although none of us here agree with Amazon’s philosophies we do realize that book lovers don’t have many options in the book marketplace and are stuck with Amazon too. This Christmas we’ve been working hard uploading all of our titles to Amazon. You will find the books that are already uploaded at http://amazon.com/author/caty/. Try to be patient with us while we move our content from our sites to Amazon as it takes several steps to do so. For a touch of nostalgia from our oldest fans, here’s a flash back to the original covers.
Steps in Making a Kindle Book
- Conversion of file to Microsoft Word docx format
- Formatting of docx
- Adding section breaks and removing page breaks
- Conversion to epub
- Uploading docx file to Amazon KDP
- Conversion of front cover file to jpg
- Uploading of jpg to Amazon KDP
- Creating new details, content, and pricing pages
- Proofing both cover and interior pages
- Publishing
- Proofing Amazon’s for sale page
- Adding title to author central author page
- Creating series page
- Adding title to series
Steps in Making a KDP Paperback
- Conversion of file to Microsoft Word doc format
- Formatting of doc
- Adding page breaks and removing section breaks
- Removing widows and orphans
- Adding page numbers
- Formatting bleed and margins
- Uploading doc file to Amazon KDP
- Creating back cover
- Creating spine
- Create full cover
- Conversion of full cover to PDF
- Uploading of pdf to Amazon KDP
- Creating new details, content, and pricing pages
- Proofing both cover and interior pages
- Publishing
- Proofing Amazon’s for sale page
- Adding title to author central author page
- Ordering author copies to proof
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