Make Paperbacks with CreateSpace: Sell More Books on Amazon

By Jason Matthews

CreateSpace is Amazon's print on demand company, the best place in the world to self publish paperback books. Learn to do it fast and easy. You'll save time and money.
Microsoft Word documents (.doc and .docx) can easily be formatted for CreateSpace because it’s the world’s most popular writing program.
Most authors pay for this, but it’s wise to do it yourself. When you format your own documents:
•you save time
•you save money
•you can make changes whenever you want
•you make the reader's experience better
The course walks you through it from first page to last. Installing great fonts, handling front matter, using section breaks, inserting page numbers, images, everything a reader expects. Get detailed instruction with an actual MS Word document and uploading it to the online previewer at CreateSpace, something you'll be doing soon.
Also get 2 FREE TEMPLATES that come with the course as examples, templates you can use for your books!
The course is 30 easy-to-follow lessons. It's taught by Jason Matthews, author, speaker and publishing coach. He's helped thousands of writers around the world.
Jason sells thousands of books with CreateSpace, and you can too!
In less than two hours, you'll be able to professionally format your paperbacks and give readers something they truly enjoy.
Get started today so your books can be for sale on Amazon soon!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Matthews
• Release date: Jan 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310634130

Jason Matthews

Jason Matthews was an officer of the CIA’s Operations Directorate. Over a thirty-three-year career he served in multiple overseas locations, spoke six foreign languages, and engaged in clandestine collection of national security intelligence, specializing in denied-area operations. Matthews conducted recruitment operations against Soviet–East European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean targets. As Chief in various CIA Stations, he collaborated with foreign partners in counterproliferation and counterterrorism operations. His first novel, Red Sparrow, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was made into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence. He continued the Red Sparrow trilogy with Palace of Treason and The Kremlin’s Candidate. Jason Matthews passed away in 2021.   

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Getting Started

This ebook is a supplement to the Udemy video course and can also be used on its own. Readers who want the video course can save 76% with coupon code: https://www.udemy.com/make-paperbacks-with-createspace-sell-more-books-on-amazon/?couponCode=Smashwords7.

Okay, here we go. It’s time to get to know CreateSpace, Amazon’s print on demand publishing company: https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/.

All of the tabs at the website are smart to look through, especially the ISBN option and their free tools. Eventually you’ll be uploading an MS Word document or PDF to CreateSpace. The online previewer will be a handy and fun tool to use during that time, where you can look through the document page by page or catalogue style to get a feel for how your book will look. Small changes for outside and inside margins, page numbering and settings for headers and footers will be easier to see from the online previewer.

Our demonstrations will be done with MS Word doc and docx. We’ll be using the version from 2007, but all versions are compatible with this and will have similar functions though some items will have a different look. If you don’t have MS Word, you might consider buying it, and there are inexpensive versions from 2003, 2007 and 2010 at places like eBay. Those older versions work great. You can also use free alternatives from place like Libre Office (http://www.libreoffice.org/) and Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/) if you want.

Trim Size

One of the first decisions will be trim size, the width by height in inches of the book. You don’t have to decide now, but by the time you begin the uploading process it will need to be decided as it’s something that cannot be changed later because the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) will be associated with the trim size.

In MS Word this is done through the Page Layout and Page Setup tabs. Many default Setups are 8.5 by 11 inches (letter size). Most books have a different trim size. Common Industry Standards are 5 x 8, 5.25 x 8, 5.5 x 8.5 and 6 x 9 inches, but there are many other possibilities: https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/#content4. Industry Standard sizes have more distribution channels and are wise choices.

It’s smart to visit CreateSpace and read some of the options for both black and white books and full color books. Check out if the trim size