Self-Publishing On All Platforms: A Guide for Amazon KDP, Smashwords, and Others

By Donna Jenou

This short guide shows the different requirements for all of the major self-publishing retailers and distributors. As a professional book formatter, I work with many new authors who jump right into self-publishing without even having basic knowledge of the process or what the requirements are.

This book is a second edition. I rewrote it to include a couple of new distributors. IngramSpark and Lulu. There is also new information in every chapter.

In this book, you will find the basic requirements for all of the major retailers and distributors that sell and distribute ebooks and print books for self-publishing authors. You will also find some other aspects of what they offer along with some tips from me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna Markiewicz
• Release date: Jan 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463747988

Donna Jenou

I am a professional book formatter and self-publishing author. As a professional book formatter, I help authors prepare their books for publishing. I format all types of books including, ebooks, print books, cookbooks, children's print books, and photo books. I also format ebooks and print books with footnotes and endnotes in them. I will soon be adding fixed layout design ebooks to that list as well. I am a level 2 seller on Fiverr.com where I format books for self-publishing authors. You can find my gigs here: https://www.fiverr.com/donnajenou. As a self-publishing author, I publish books under several pen names. Many of the books that I write are "how to" books on self-publishing, book formatting and variety of other topics. I spend a lot of time continuing to educate myself in the ever-changing world of self-publishing so I can serve my customers better. For my initial education, I studied at the Art Institute at Pittsburgh Online for a bachelor's degree in Interactive Media. As a side project, I also own a premade book cover store called TheBookDesigner in which I have created all of the book covers myself. You can find that here: http://thebookdesigner.co.

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Self-Publishing On All Platforms

A Guide for Amazon KDP, Smashwords,

and Others

Donna Jenou

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Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Universal Rules

Book Distribution

Retailers

Distributors

Acceptable File Types

Formatting Software

Ebooks

Print Books

Book Covers

General Requirements

Ebooks

Print Books

When You Upload

Getting Paid

Marketing

Final Thoughts

Before You Go

About the Author

I am a professional book formatter and a self-publishing author. As a professional book formatter, I help authors prepare their books for publishing. I format all types of books including, ebooks, print books, cookbooks, children's print books, and photo books. I also format ebooks and print books with footnotes and endnotes in them. I will soon be adding fixed layout design ebooks to that list as well.

I am a level 2 seller on Fiverr.com where I format books for self-publishing authors. You can find my gigs here: https://www.fiverr.com/donnajenou.

As a self-publishing author, I publish books under several pen names. Many of the books that I write are how to books on self-publishing, book formatting and variety of other topics.

I spend a lot of time continuing to educate myself in the ever-changing world of self-publishing so I can serve my customers better. For my initial education, I studied at the Art Institute at Pittsburgh Online

Reviews for Self-Publishing On All Platforms

[Destiny Samuel · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love it and I will love to publish it