All About Author Central What you can do on Author Central The Author Page on Amazon.com provides a handy place for customers to learn about you. Helping customers get to know you is an effective way to introduce them to—or better educate them about—your books. On the Author Page, we display essential information about authors—including bibliographies, biographies, author photos, and even feeds to blog posts. (Check these examples:,, and.) You use Author Central to personalize the contents of the Author Page dedicated to your books. Here’s how to start: • your Author Central account if you haven’t already done so. • In Author Central, click the Profile tab. You’ll see sections for adding or changing your biography, photos, videos, speaking or other events, and blog feeds. • Click the add or edit link next to a section. Instructions appear, along with space to add information. If you don’t add information to a section, that section does not appear on the Author Page. Sections are always available in Author Central so you can add or change the information later. Getting an Author Page for your books We start the creation process for an Author Page as soon as you sign up for Author Central. It can take 3 to 5 days for the Author Page to appear on the Amazon.com site. You can begin adding content to an Author Page as soon as you sign up. Once your Author Central account is and approve by a publisher, changes appear on the Author Page within 24 hours of the time you add them in Author Central. Adding or changing content • • • • • • • • • • • Making your book available on Kindle Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle customers to purchase and begin reading in less than 60 seconds. If your book is not yet available on Kindle, we’d like to help you reach this quickly growing market. If you hold the electronic rights to your book and would like to convert and sell it in the Kindle format using Amazon's self-publishing tools, visit. If your publisher holds the electronic rights to your book, contact them directly and ask them to make it available to Amazon for sale on Kindle. Enrolling your book in Search Inside the Book If you hold the copyright and marketing/promotion rights to your book and would like to enroll it in Search Inside,. Linking to Amazon’s Author Pages We hope you will link to the Author Page from your website, because we think the Author Page is a great place for readers to access all editions of your work. You can use your Author Page URL in your profiles on sites like Facebook and Twitter, or promote your Author Page using services such as Google Ads or Facebook Ads, subject to the policies of those advertising service providers. And, if you like, you can join for free and earn up to 10% in referrals by featuring Amazon products on your web page. Help on questions not covered here Whenever you click a link to add or edit content, we’ll give you instructions for continuing. But if you have any questions, click the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page. You can also click that link to give us feedback. Sep 06, 2017 To publish your book from iBooks Author, you must first export it as a PDF, text file,.ePub, or.ibooks file. To choose what format is best for your book. Dorrance Publishing Services. For nearly 100 years, authors have trusted Dorrance to write, publish and promote their books! Please select the service that. Go with self-publishing. If you want to maximize your cut of sales, maintain absolute creative control, or participate in non-traditional copyright structures, self-publishing an eBook might be right for you. • This route is much more difficult than it sounds. It will require you to do all of your own marketing and editing, as well as deal with sellers. Though it will allow you more control, it is significantly more work. • Creative Commons licenses are useful for those planning on self-publishing. This will give you a template for the legalese to protect your work, as well as providing the freedom to decide how tightly you wish to control the work. Go with a traditional publisher. You may not want to deal with publishing your eBook on your own. You may not have time to devote to marketing, design, editing, or the formatting of an eBook. There is nothing wrong with this. If self-publishing sounds too complicated, you can find a traditional publisher to produce and sell your eBook. • Keep in mind that a traditional publisher will take a larger cut from your book sales and will often exert a certain level of control over the content and copyright. • Publishers will often be reluctant to take new authors. If you want to, get an agent who will help find a publisher for you and advocate for the quality of your work. An agent will also help you negotiate a good contract. Edit your book. Editing is one of the most important aspects of publishing your book. A poorly edited book will not attract readers, reviewers, or potential publishers. Editing gives your eBook a professional appearance and makes it more pleasant to read. • Fix all grammar and spelling issues. Too many grammar and spelling problems can render a text unreadable. Use a word processor like Microsoft Word or Google Docs to find spelling and basic grammar mistakes. The programs are not, however, a replacement for human eyes. They can only detect spelling errors for words that do not exist. If you have simply typed the wrong their/there/they’re, the computer will probably not catch it. Grammar errors are much the same. Read the book yourself, all the way though. This will help you catch grammar and spelling mistakes but it can also give you a better sense of how the book fits together as a whole. Look for scenes which don’t work next to each other, characters who seem to change personality from one chapter to the next, or major changes in writing style. Since authors usually write their books over long periods of time and rarely write them straight through, it can lead to pieces of story that don’t fit next to each other. • Read it aloud. Once you have read the text all the way through, one of the best editing methods is to read the text aloud. This will keep your brain from auto-correcting missing words, incorrect words, grammar and spelling errors. It can also alert you to unnatural-sounding dialogue. Have someone proof it. Have a fellow writer read it through, from beginning to end. They will be able to look at it from a writer’s standpoint, looking for weaknesses in structure, characterization, and word choice. This works best if it is a neutral party, but an objective friend can work just as well. • Have someone read it that normally reads books in the same genre. Only someone who reads similar books will really be able to appreciate your book. They will help you determine if you have written it in such a way that it reaches its intended audience and connects with them. Decide your distributor. Once you have decided the device or devices, you will need to decide your distributor. Where do you want your eBook sold? You can make it available on websites like Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or Google Play. You can also have it on lesser known eBook distributors or on its own website entirely. • If you sell the book on it’s own website, you will gain a larger cut of the profits but miss out on a larger audience and marketing tools. • Again, certain distributors offer incentives to keep your book exclusive to their service. Investigate these programs to help you make your decision. • Kindle Direct Publishing: this is Amazon’s distribution service. • Smashwords: this service publishes to most major booksellers, with the exception of Kindle. • Nook Press: this is Barnes and Noble’s distribution service. • Lulu: this service is notable for distributing eBooks to the Apple store, an otherwise complicated process. Understand how ereaders work. It is important to understand how ereaders work and how text displays on the screen. In understanding what is expected, you will know how your own eBook should look when you are done with formatting. • To get an idea of what eBooks look like, get or borrow an ereader. Look at eBooks and notice how you can interact with them and change them. • It is important to know that there are no “pages” in eBooks like there are in traditional books. EBooks are designed so that the text is fluid, able to resize at any time. You cannot format the book with set pages or page numbers in mind.
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