Showing posts with label Walk Forward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walk Forward. Show all posts
Saturday, November 25, 2017
WALK FORWARD
Nov 22-28, 2017 Kindle Countdown, 99 CENTS
"Walk Forward"
http://amzn.to/2g28y6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Authors of "Mentoring Power: Key to Sustainable Economic Growth and Innovation"
Follow me on Twitter at @RosaSRaskin
"Mentoring Power: Key to Sustainable Economic Growth and Innovation" [Kindle Edition], at http://www.amazon.com/
William Sharp has a background in biotechnology, translation of science into business ideas, spawning start-up companies and extensive technology transfer experience in the Americas and Asia. He has authored over seventy original research papers, abstracts and books in the field of plant cell biology including the five volume series entitled the Handbook of Plant Cell Culture. Dr. Sharp is currently a member of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee. He previously held the following positions: Dean of Research and Professor of Plant Science, Cook College & Director of Research, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University; Executive Vice-President, DNA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Executive Vice-President for Research, DNA Plant Technology, Corp; Research Director, Pioneer Research, Campbell Institute for Research & Technology, the Campbell Soup Company; Professor of Microbiology, Ohio State University; Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory and Eminent Professor, University of Sao Paulo. He was a Fulbright Grantee during 1971 and 1973. Dr. Sharp holds a Ph.D. in Plant Cell Biology from Rutgers University.
Rosa Raskin has a background in the sciences and information technology. She has taught K-12, physicians, health care givers, patient education, and university scientists. She placed 6 full text medical books on the internet in 1996, and was the webmaster for a 5 hospital system. She is a contributing author to two leading international trade journals, one for Asia and the Pacific Rim
APCJ) and the other covering Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East (PPCJhttp://www.polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/). She founded Rosa S. Raskin & Associates LLC, to continue her work in consulting, research, and innovative product development. Her background on the bench in several life science laboratories gives her a unique perspective in combining her love of science with information. As an information analyst she is called on to trouble shoot, turn ideas into products, and enable her clients to make things happen by securing the needed primary, secondary and tertiary tools. She has spent more than thirty years working as a researcher in academic medical centers, Fortune 100 companies, government, and special education. She holds a B.S. in Zoology, an M.S. in Microbiology, both from The Ohio State University and an M.L.S. from Kent State University. She recently published a book entitled, "Walk Forward," wrote a chapter for the newly published book, "Reflections & Connections: Personal Journeys Through the Life Sciences," and is writing three cookbooks dedicated to those with food allergies and restricted diets.
Maria Shine Stewart is a licensed professional counselor in Ohio and has 30 years of experience in higher education as a teacher of writing, a publication specialist and editor, a volunteer in a career services office, a writing center consultant, a continuing education instructor on campus and in the workplace, and in other roles promoting student learning and well-being. She holds a B.A. in English from Cleveland State University and two master’s degrees from John Carroll University, in counseling and in English. She has been a career advice columnist, “A Kinder Campus,” for the free online daily, "Inside Higher Ed." She strives to build bridges between the humanities and the social sciences with an emphasis on writing across the lifespan, wellness, creativity, and innovation. She led senior citizen community memoir workshops for many years and has taught at John Carroll University, Notre Dame College (Ohio), Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, and Ursuline College’s Teacher Apprentice Program.
"Mentoring Power: Key to Sustainable Economic Growth and Innovation" [Kindle Edition], at http://www.amazon.com/
William Sharp has a background in biotechnology, translation of science into business ideas, spawning start-up companies and extensive technology transfer experience in the Americas and Asia. He has authored over seventy original research papers, abstracts and books in the field of plant cell biology including the five volume series entitled the Handbook of Plant Cell Culture. Dr. Sharp is currently a member of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee. He previously held the following positions: Dean of Research and Professor of Plant Science, Cook College & Director of Research, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University; Executive Vice-President, DNA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Executive Vice-President for Research, DNA Plant Technology, Corp; Research Director, Pioneer Research, Campbell Institute for Research & Technology, the Campbell Soup Company; Professor of Microbiology, Ohio State University; Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory and Eminent Professor, University of Sao Paulo. He was a Fulbright Grantee during 1971 and 1973. Dr. Sharp holds a Ph.D. in Plant Cell Biology from Rutgers University.
Rosa Raskin has a background in the sciences and information technology. She has taught K-12, physicians, health care givers, patient education, and university scientists. She placed 6 full text medical books on the internet in 1996, and was the webmaster for a 5 hospital system. She is a contributing author to two leading international trade journals, one for Asia and the Pacific Rim
APCJ) and the other covering Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East (PPCJhttp://www.polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/). She founded Rosa S. Raskin & Associates LLC, to continue her work in consulting, research, and innovative product development. Her background on the bench in several life science laboratories gives her a unique perspective in combining her love of science with information. As an information analyst she is called on to trouble shoot, turn ideas into products, and enable her clients to make things happen by securing the needed primary, secondary and tertiary tools. She has spent more than thirty years working as a researcher in academic medical centers, Fortune 100 companies, government, and special education. She holds a B.S. in Zoology, an M.S. in Microbiology, both from The Ohio State University and an M.L.S. from Kent State University. She recently published a book entitled, "Walk Forward," wrote a chapter for the newly published book, "Reflections & Connections: Personal Journeys Through the Life Sciences," and is writing three cookbooks dedicated to those with food allergies and restricted diets.
Maria Shine Stewart is a licensed professional counselor in Ohio and has 30 years of experience in higher education as a teacher of writing, a publication specialist and editor, a volunteer in a career services office, a writing center consultant, a continuing education instructor on campus and in the workplace, and in other roles promoting student learning and well-being. She holds a B.A. in English from Cleveland State University and two master’s degrees from John Carroll University, in counseling and in English. She has been a career advice columnist, “A Kinder Campus,” for the free online daily, "Inside Higher Ed." She strives to build bridges between the humanities and the social sciences with an emphasis on writing across the lifespan, wellness, creativity, and innovation. She led senior citizen community memoir workshops for many years and has taught at John Carroll University, Notre Dame College (Ohio), Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, and Ursuline College’s Teacher Apprentice Program.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
How to Shorten a URL (Web Address)
Since Twitter runs on 140 characters (including spaces) it is necessary to shorten URLs in every tweet.
I never noticed, but recently learned that there is a shortened URL on one's product page on Amazon.com
If one scrolls down to the "Share" button on the right side, about half-way down the page and clicks, one can see the Amazon version of the shortened URL for a book, for example.
The link to my book, Walk Forward, is http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC and the Amazon version of the shorter URL is http://amzn.com/B009H6Y7AC
on the Amazon product page.
There are many programs available to shorten URLs and a great introduction to the field is included at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening
Happy Shortening!
I never noticed, but recently learned that there is a shortened URL on one's product page on Amazon.com
If one scrolls down to the "Share" button on the right side, about half-way down the page and clicks, one can see the Amazon version of the shortened URL for a book, for example.
The link to my book, Walk Forward, is http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC and the Amazon version of the shorter URL is http://amzn.com/B009H6Y7AC
on the Amazon product page.
There are many programs available to shorten URLs and a great introduction to the field is included at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening
Happy Shortening!
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Adding Pages Numbers to Your Book?
I love CreateSpace, but my book does not have photos and photos must be in the proper resolution to be clear and crisp in any medium, especially print where paper quality may vary, and text may be seen through the photo. I am happy with my decision to put the photos on my web site and link Walk Forward to the photographs.
Per page numbering in 2012, I spent about 30 hours trying to figure out how to do page numbering and here is what I think is a great YouTube on page numbering as the professionals do and sometimes do not. As a former librarian, having the binding of a thick paperback book break apart and trying to fix unnumbered pages is a nightmare, or having a patron come in with a page out of a paperback from somewhere?
http://www.amazon.com/
Per page numbering in 2012, I spent about 30 hours trying to figure out how to do page numbering and here is what I think is a great YouTube on page numbering as the professionals do and sometimes do not. As a former librarian, having the binding of a thick paperback book break apart and trying to fix unnumbered pages is a nightmare, or having a patron come in with a page out of a paperback from somewhere?
http://www.amazon.com/
Making a Business Card for Walk Forward
The last time I attended a meeting, I did not have a business card for my book, so I wrote the title and URL on my personal business card, certainly not very professional and it took time to write the information out. Unfortunately, it was an international meeting and I did not write out the entire set of international Amazon nodes on which the book is present.
Of course, anyone can search for Walk Forward on their country's Amazon website, but it would be faster to include the exact URL, as I don't know how many future books might have the same title?
Walk Forward's cover is a photo of my mother from 1938, and I am searching for a missing half sister, thus, any photo must be both clear and crisp. The missing half sister is not my mother's daughter,
but was my father's first born.
To make the card which can be single sided or folded like a little book, I have to make the following decisions:
Of course, anyone can search for Walk Forward on their country's Amazon website, but it would be faster to include the exact URL, as I don't know how many future books might have the same title?
Walk Forward's cover is a photo of my mother from 1938, and I am searching for a missing half sister, thus, any photo must be both clear and crisp. The missing half sister is not my mother's daughter,
but was my father's first born.
To make the card which can be single sided or folded like a little book, I have to make the following decisions:
- For the graphic, portrait or landscape, I am choosing portrait
- For the photo itself I need to create one that has a resolution of at least 1200 X 1200 and
- Sized at 3.5 X 2".
- Need to figure out what program to use to increase resolution or the photo will look grainy, "pixelly" as I call it.
- Bleed needed on the photo, or I will have to border it, which means leaving it white, black, or in my case maybe dark brown if I can match the color with its proper color code, thus,
- Find code for the darkest brown color on the photo.
I would like to include the following in the card and will probably use the folded option:
"We walk forward, but we will never forget."
- YouTube
- Blogs
- Amazon Nodes --long list on web site all of them
- CreateSpace address
- Book's Facebook Page
- Pinterest Board
- Goodreads
- Website
- Press Release(s)
- Photos on Walk Forward's website
Stop by again to see my progress and authors who have done this, please join in.
Notice that light spot to the very far right --- that is my grandfather's ear as I cropped my Mom from her family photograph. I am keeping my grandfather's ear no matter what!
Monday, February 24, 2014
Clues!
I have been searching the fate of my lost sister for most of my life, wrote a book to her, have searched every database I can think of, conducted personal interviews, and am awaiting DNA test results.
To date, I have found nothing proving what truly happened to my sister, but I have found the grave of my Uncle Leo Chimowicz.
I had searched cemetery databases worldwide, retraced what I knew about my Uncle Leo, zoomed in
and searched data in countries near where he might have chosen to live after the Second World War.
When I found a girl who was 3 years older than my lost sister, this new friend said to me, "Maybe your Uncles hitched a ride with us to Prague." It was a long-shot, but I zoomed in on Prague once again, reading every single grave posted (not all worldwide grave sites are on the Internet) and I found him.
After years of searching, I found the grave of my Uncle Leo Chimowicz, who was alive on release from concentration camp Theresienstadt in May, 1945, but was suffering from his wounds. Being tall at 6'4" was not an advantage at that time. Uncle Leo, the beloved youngest brother of my father and his older brother Alfred, died and was buried in the "New Jewish Cemetery" in Prague, Czech.
My lesson here is that one should listen to every word and re-research anything one has done in the past. Redoing does not insure success, but new retrospective data is being added to databases each and everyday.
Sometimes a small clue will enable one to narrow the question, zoom into an area, or at least eliminate some areas. In my case, my new friend's simple statement led me to completing deep web research limiting my geographic area -- no longer having to search Poland, Russia, Germany, etc., I was able to concentrate fully on one city, in one country, just in case.
Had my new friend Eva not stated it in these words, "Maybe your Uncle hitched a ride with us to Prague," I would not yet have found my Uncle Leo's grave. I pictured my uncles hitching a ride with young Eva and her family. I knew my father did not go with his brothers as my father was searching for his wife and child who had once lived in another direction. My father had told me his parting words to his beloved brother as my father sought the West and his youngest sibling sought the East where he hoped to find word of his own wife and his three young sons.
I never imagined a short flight to another city in the U.S., to visit my new friend, would end in finding the grave of my Uncle!
What more can I learn about my family? I need only keep my eyes and ears open for more clues!
One comment my new friend made was, "Rosa, you can not do a memorial for your sister, she might be alive." This statement has given me the courage to continue the search, update my book "Walk Forward" via its blog, facebook and twitter info, and inspired me to keep going in the search for my sister, a beautiful nine-year-old girl last documented in Stutthof on September 3, 1944.
Eugenia Chimowicz, my older sister, survived so close to the end, could she possibly have made it through the horrors of Stutthof and be alive and somehow find this blog?
To date, I have found nothing proving what truly happened to my sister, but I have found the grave of my Uncle Leo Chimowicz.
I had searched cemetery databases worldwide, retraced what I knew about my Uncle Leo, zoomed in
and searched data in countries near where he might have chosen to live after the Second World War.
When I found a girl who was 3 years older than my lost sister, this new friend said to me, "Maybe your Uncles hitched a ride with us to Prague." It was a long-shot, but I zoomed in on Prague once again, reading every single grave posted (not all worldwide grave sites are on the Internet) and I found him.
After years of searching, I found the grave of my Uncle Leo Chimowicz, who was alive on release from concentration camp Theresienstadt in May, 1945, but was suffering from his wounds. Being tall at 6'4" was not an advantage at that time. Uncle Leo, the beloved youngest brother of my father and his older brother Alfred, died and was buried in the "New Jewish Cemetery" in Prague, Czech.
My lesson here is that one should listen to every word and re-research anything one has done in the past. Redoing does not insure success, but new retrospective data is being added to databases each and everyday.
Sometimes a small clue will enable one to narrow the question, zoom into an area, or at least eliminate some areas. In my case, my new friend's simple statement led me to completing deep web research limiting my geographic area -- no longer having to search Poland, Russia, Germany, etc., I was able to concentrate fully on one city, in one country, just in case.
Had my new friend Eva not stated it in these words, "Maybe your Uncle hitched a ride with us to Prague," I would not yet have found my Uncle Leo's grave. I pictured my uncles hitching a ride with young Eva and her family. I knew my father did not go with his brothers as my father was searching for his wife and child who had once lived in another direction. My father had told me his parting words to his beloved brother as my father sought the West and his youngest sibling sought the East where he hoped to find word of his own wife and his three young sons.
I never imagined a short flight to another city in the U.S., to visit my new friend, would end in finding the grave of my Uncle!
What more can I learn about my family? I need only keep my eyes and ears open for more clues!
One comment my new friend made was, "Rosa, you can not do a memorial for your sister, she might be alive." This statement has given me the courage to continue the search, update my book "Walk Forward" via its blog, facebook and twitter info, and inspired me to keep going in the search for my sister, a beautiful nine-year-old girl last documented in Stutthof on September 3, 1944.
Eugenia Chimowicz, my older sister, survived so close to the end, could she possibly have made it through the horrors of Stutthof and be alive and somehow find this blog?
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Book Reviews, the other side
Not all book reviews are good, in fact some are on the borderline of hurtful, especially is the reviewer had not truly read the book and has an "agenda" in writing a review.
However, it is fascinating that negative and controversial reviews seem to sell books or get them distributed in a wider range!
As of today, January 1, 2013, Walk Forward continues to hold the following:
"Eugenia, if by some reason you are alive and find this book, please contact me, your half-sister Rosie!"
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Children's Nonfiction > History > Holocaust
#1 in Books > Children's Books > History > Holocaust
What is the secret to being #1 in two categories? Good question and I hope to find the answers soon!
Happy New Year 2013 to everyone, especially those that frequent this blog!
However, it is fascinating that negative and controversial reviews seem to sell books or get them distributed in a wider range!
As of today, January 1, 2013, Walk Forward continues to hold the following:
"Eugenia, if by some reason you are alive and find this book, please contact me, your half-sister Rosie!"
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Children's Nonfiction > History > Holocaust
#1 in Books > Children's Books > History > Holocaust
What is the secret to being #1 in two categories? Good question and I hope to find the answers soon!
Happy New Year 2013 to everyone, especially those that frequent this blog!
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Turning the Ebook into a Paperback
Some potential readers are asking me for a copy of my ebook, Walk Forward, as a paperback!
This means I must find a platform for publishing a hard copy of Walk Forward.
I checked out the following three platforms:
1. Espresso Book Machine
2. Blurb
3. Createspace
The decision as to which platform to use is not exclusive, I could go with all three.
However, I eliminated the first two per issues of either the information they requested, cost, or location.
We do not yet have an Espresso Book Machine in our area of Cleveland, Ohio. There is one in Austin, Texas, and my sister would gladly pick a paperback copy of the book to me from their location on the University of Texas at Austin campus, and check the book for me.
However, after looking at cost, prompts, and requirements, I decided to try Createspace which is fully owned by Amazon, where my ebook resides on the Amazon Kindle platform.
I hoped that since my book was an ebook on Amazon's platform that there might be an easy way to submit my Amazon contribution to their wholly owned subsidiary.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way my ebook for Kindle can be turned into a paperback without having me upload a manuscript to Createspace in their preferred format.
All three platforms, Espresso, Blurb, and Createspace use a print-ready PDF to make prints of the book, various formats are accepted, but they convert to a PDF for publishing. Createspace will do as much as one wants to do and offer various services, in addition to the free uploading of a PDF.Whether one creates a PDF, using the guidelines for each platform, or hire someone to do it depends on the time one has to spend on the project.
I chose to do everything myself using mostly free programs and read that Open Office makes an awesome PDF.
Per Open Office Writer one need only match the requirements of the target platform to options in making the appropriate PDF.
One obvious problem is that ebooks do not currently have page numbers. Pages in a book are also dependent on font size. I decided to make the font size in my book size 14, and in the 6" x 9" paperback,
my book turned into 226 pages.
After submitting a PDF with even numbers on the right side and odd on the left, Createspace emailed that my book is non-standard. A book must have the odd page on the right side! They suggested I add another page to the front of my book to make my text start on an odd page, on the right side.
It sounded simple, just add a page and all should be fine, right? No, no, no, it did not work. I could add a page by placing a page break before a heading on page 2, however, when I inserted the pagination, all the pages had numbers, or none of the pages had numbers. Should I use Roman numerals for the pages, such as the copyright and dedication pages, restart the page numbering process on the first text page, or what?
I called Createpace as was not sure I understood their directions and what the pagination should look like.
Createspace has great telephone help. I recommend them for their helpful telephone response system with a live person. All I had to do was type in my phone number and Createspace called me back immediately, with and very short waiting period, practically no waiting at all to speak with one of their knowledgeable representatives.
Createspace explained that they only allow one series of numbers, the front pages should not have numbers, but must be considered in the page count expressed on the first page of text of the book.
In my case, the first page of text would be page 5.
I could not get the text page to say page 5. Thus, decided to move my Open Office document to Microsoft Word which for some reason, allowed me to add the page numbers more easily. However, the page in back of the title page had a page "2" on it. I did not mind this and as long as it truly is page #2 and page #5 is labeled as page 5, Createspace would accept the manuscript as long as page numbers correspond to the actual number the page would have, counting blank pages or whatever pages one might include in the book.
Having had to redo my pagination many times, I quickly learned to understand the difference between changing properties of a paragraph versus a page.
I went between Open Office and Word and Open Office. Setting styles for a front page (termed a "first page" in Open Office) versus a "default" style for text, seemed easy, but for some unknown reason, the extra page I had to insert, stayed as a "default" page rather than being a unnumbered "first page." I started over
several times adding or deleting page numbers. I tried both Open Office and Microsoft Word and seemed to have issues as could not remove the default style from the page I added.
Certain tasks were easier to perform in Open Office, like making an awesome PDF, while it seemed easier to add/delete pages in Microsoft Word, and add page numbers using Word. Open Office's footer got larger and larger, Word's page number did not take up much space on the page.
I did not want to purchase software or hire someone to make a cover or put page numbers on my book, but I might hire someone in the future to do what I did as it was beyond time consuming! I am thankful that my first 6" x 9" paperback was no longer than its 226 pages!
I uploaded several copies to Createspace, as I had a few words in italics that hung into the margin. It was easy to cut and re-paste the few sentences that had italic words in the margin area.
The reverse side of the title page has a little number "2" on the bottom, as I could not
get that page number to hide, without deleting all the page numbers! The next two pages
have no page numbers (as I wanted and Createspace prefers), and no number on the Title page.
The text of Walk Forward starts on a page which is numbered "5" and it is page 5 if one counts every page included in the book from its front cover. Page 5 is on the right side, where convention dictates. CreateSpace will not
accept text starting on page 1, my text started on page 5 and it must be so numbered, 5.
CreateSpace wants the text to start with the real number, counting from the beginning of the book
and they do not allow Roman numerals, or another numbering style, for those early pages. Createspace does not allow two numbering systems in one book.
They said my cover converted properly and I ordered 5 proofs of Walk Forward as 5 is the maximum number of proofs one is permitted to purchase.
My book cover is brown to convey a serious feel of the nonfiction book, with yellow words on the back and front of the cover to signify "rays of sunshine."
This means I must find a platform for publishing a hard copy of Walk Forward.
I checked out the following three platforms:
1. Espresso Book Machine
2. Blurb
3. Createspace
The decision as to which platform to use is not exclusive, I could go with all three.
However, I eliminated the first two per issues of either the information they requested, cost, or location.
We do not yet have an Espresso Book Machine in our area of Cleveland, Ohio. There is one in Austin, Texas, and my sister would gladly pick a paperback copy of the book to me from their location on the University of Texas at Austin campus, and check the book for me.
However, after looking at cost, prompts, and requirements, I decided to try Createspace which is fully owned by Amazon, where my ebook resides on the Amazon Kindle platform.
I hoped that since my book was an ebook on Amazon's platform that there might be an easy way to submit my Amazon contribution to their wholly owned subsidiary.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way my ebook for Kindle can be turned into a paperback without having me upload a manuscript to Createspace in their preferred format.
All three platforms, Espresso, Blurb, and Createspace use a print-ready PDF to make prints of the book, various formats are accepted, but they convert to a PDF for publishing. Createspace will do as much as one wants to do and offer various services, in addition to the free uploading of a PDF.Whether one creates a PDF, using the guidelines for each platform, or hire someone to do it depends on the time one has to spend on the project.
I chose to do everything myself using mostly free programs and read that Open Office makes an awesome PDF.
Per Open Office Writer one need only match the requirements of the target platform to options in making the appropriate PDF.
One obvious problem is that ebooks do not currently have page numbers. Pages in a book are also dependent on font size. I decided to make the font size in my book size 14, and in the 6" x 9" paperback,
my book turned into 226 pages.
After submitting a PDF with even numbers on the right side and odd on the left, Createspace emailed that my book is non-standard. A book must have the odd page on the right side! They suggested I add another page to the front of my book to make my text start on an odd page, on the right side.
It sounded simple, just add a page and all should be fine, right? No, no, no, it did not work. I could add a page by placing a page break before a heading on page 2, however, when I inserted the pagination, all the pages had numbers, or none of the pages had numbers. Should I use Roman numerals for the pages, such as the copyright and dedication pages, restart the page numbering process on the first text page, or what?
I called Createpace as was not sure I understood their directions and what the pagination should look like.
Createspace has great telephone help. I recommend them for their helpful telephone response system with a live person. All I had to do was type in my phone number and Createspace called me back immediately, with and very short waiting period, practically no waiting at all to speak with one of their knowledgeable representatives.
Createspace explained that they only allow one series of numbers, the front pages should not have numbers, but must be considered in the page count expressed on the first page of text of the book.
In my case, the first page of text would be page 5.
I could not get the text page to say page 5. Thus, decided to move my Open Office document to Microsoft Word which for some reason, allowed me to add the page numbers more easily. However, the page in back of the title page had a page "2" on it. I did not mind this and as long as it truly is page #2 and page #5 is labeled as page 5, Createspace would accept the manuscript as long as page numbers correspond to the actual number the page would have, counting blank pages or whatever pages one might include in the book.
Having had to redo my pagination many times, I quickly learned to understand the difference between changing properties of a paragraph versus a page.
I went between Open Office and Word and Open Office. Setting styles for a front page (termed a "first page" in Open Office) versus a "default" style for text, seemed easy, but for some unknown reason, the extra page I had to insert, stayed as a "default" page rather than being a unnumbered "first page." I started over
several times adding or deleting page numbers. I tried both Open Office and Microsoft Word and seemed to have issues as could not remove the default style from the page I added.
Certain tasks were easier to perform in Open Office, like making an awesome PDF, while it seemed easier to add/delete pages in Microsoft Word, and add page numbers using Word. Open Office's footer got larger and larger, Word's page number did not take up much space on the page.
I did not want to purchase software or hire someone to make a cover or put page numbers on my book, but I might hire someone in the future to do what I did as it was beyond time consuming! I am thankful that my first 6" x 9" paperback was no longer than its 226 pages!
I uploaded several copies to Createspace, as I had a few words in italics that hung into the margin. It was easy to cut and re-paste the few sentences that had italic words in the margin area.
The reverse side of the title page has a little number "2" on the bottom, as I could not
get that page number to hide, without deleting all the page numbers! The next two pages
have no page numbers (as I wanted and Createspace prefers), and no number on the Title page.
The text of Walk Forward starts on a page which is numbered "5" and it is page 5 if one counts every page included in the book from its front cover. Page 5 is on the right side, where convention dictates. CreateSpace will not
accept text starting on page 1, my text started on page 5 and it must be so numbered, 5.
CreateSpace wants the text to start with the real number, counting from the beginning of the book
and they do not allow Roman numerals, or another numbering style, for those early pages. Createspace does not allow two numbering systems in one book.
They said my cover converted properly and I ordered 5 proofs of Walk Forward as 5 is the maximum number of proofs one is permitted to purchase.
My book cover is brown to convey a serious feel of the nonfiction book, with yellow words on the back and front of the cover to signify "rays of sunshine."
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Marketing Your Book: Part 4, Tagging
A great explanation of tagging and why it is important to tag books is included at
http://trianglepubs.com/1762/book-marketing/sell-more-books-amazon-tagging/
Tags are a free way to help your book come up in a search on Amazon.com. To select a tag, think of terms
one might use to search for books like your book.
Those that view a book's web page on Amazon, have the option to "agree to" tags. I never noticed this until one of my LinkedIn groups noticed that I had not placed any tags for my book on my book's Amazon page.
One is allowed 15 tags, use them all! When my book has a free day in the Amazon Kindle Select program, I will remove two of the 15 tags and replace them with two tags to tag the book as a freebie.
http://trianglepubs.com/1762/book-marketing/sell-more-books-amazon-tagging/
Tags are a free way to help your book come up in a search on Amazon.com. To select a tag, think of terms
one might use to search for books like your book.
Those that view a book's web page on Amazon, have the option to "agree to" tags. I never noticed this until one of my LinkedIn groups noticed that I had not placed any tags for my book on my book's Amazon page.
One is allowed 15 tags, use them all! When my book has a free day in the Amazon Kindle Select program, I will remove two of the 15 tags and replace them with two tags to tag the book as a freebie.
Marketing Your Book: Part 5, Updating
I published my book, Walk Forward, about the ongoing search for my lost sister, Eugenia Chimowicz, on Amazon Kindle Select. In choosing the "Select" program, I agreed that the book will be an exclusive on Amazon Kindle for the next 90 days.
One reason I chose Amazon as in the publishing directions, it appeared easy to revise a book. When the book was a week old, a newly found cousin in Israel read the book and emailed me that my grandmother had a brother, and that brother was a twin of one of my grandmother's sisters. This was new information for my book which could lead to new information about my lost sister. Since my grandmother's brother had offspring, it was important to include their male ancestor in the book as it identifies not only how they are related to me, but to my lost sister.
Those who purchased the book, tried to purchase the updated copy, only to find out that this is not possible. Amazon only allows an individual to purchase one copy of a book, even if the book is updated.
Herein is a reply which I received from Amazon this morning in response to my question as to how the 24 readers that purchased the first, original version of my book might obtain the updated version:
Email from Amazon this morning:Regarding your inquiry about notifying your customers, we have received your request to provide updated content to customers who purchased your book. Thanks for providing specific details about the changes made. We’ll perform a review of the changes to determine the most appropriate way to describe the updates to your customers. This review will be complete within four weeks, and the possible results of our review listed below.
1. If the changes made to your content are considered critical, we’ll send an email to all customers who own the book to notify them of the update and improvements made. These customers will be able to choose to opt in to receive the update through the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com. www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/manage
2. If the changes made to your content are considered minor, we won’t be able to notify all customers by email, but we will activate their ability to update the content through the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com.
3. If the changes made to your content have caused unexpected critical issues with the book content, we’ll temporarily remove your book from sale. We’ll notify of you the issues found so you can fix them. Once the improvements are made, just let us know and we’ll then email customers as in case 1. Once our review is complete, we’ll email you to share the results and action taken.
I am publishing this in my blog herein, for any authors needing information per updating a book on Amazon Kindle.Thanks for using Amazon KDP.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Marketing Your Book: Part 3, Twitter
Since my book is free this Thursday, October 11, 2012, I have been tweeting about my book and making sure I direct it to like-minded persons.
I am using the following hash tags (#) at the end of my tweet about Walk Forward, per my upcoming first day promoting my book as "free" in the Amazon Kindle Select program.
The hash tags which I have been collecting include:
#FreeKindleEbooks, #freebook, #free, #ReadThis, #Kindle, #authorshelpingauthors, #amazon prime,
#book, #ebook, #read, #writing, #writechat, #storycraft, #amwriting, #litchat, #journalchat
The tags which I added to the Amazon page of my book include:
"free ebook," and "kindle freebie." I had to delete two of my 15 tags to make room for these two tags which I hope the search engines pick up before this Thursday!
The hash tag #SampleSunday directs tweets to your book's website.
Walk Forward was published on September 25, 2012, and appeared on Amazon on September 26, 2012.
To date (October 9, 2012), a total of 25 copies have been sold. I gifted 40 copies, but unfortunately, those to whom I gifted books, did not understand that one need not own a Kindle or any reading device to read an ebook.
One can read an ebook on the Amazon platform in the free Amazon Cloud or download the book to one's personal computer and read the book via the free "Kindle for PC."
I will report on the progress of the book in real time on Thursday and continue tweeting with hash tags!
I am using the following hash tags (#) at the end of my tweet about Walk Forward, per my upcoming first day promoting my book as "free" in the Amazon Kindle Select program.
The hash tags which I have been collecting include:
#FreeKindleEbooks, #freebook, #free, #ReadThis, #Kindle, #authorshelpingauthors, #amazon prime,
#book, #ebook, #read, #writing, #writechat, #storycraft, #amwriting, #litchat, #journalchat
The tags which I added to the Amazon page of my book include:
"free ebook," and "kindle freebie." I had to delete two of my 15 tags to make room for these two tags which I hope the search engines pick up before this Thursday!
The hash tag #SampleSunday directs tweets to your book's website.
Walk Forward was published on September 25, 2012, and appeared on Amazon on September 26, 2012.
To date (October 9, 2012), a total of 25 copies have been sold. I gifted 40 copies, but unfortunately, those to whom I gifted books, did not understand that one need not own a Kindle or any reading device to read an ebook.
One can read an ebook on the Amazon platform in the free Amazon Cloud or download the book to one's personal computer and read the book via the free "Kindle for PC."
I will report on the progress of the book in real time on Thursday and continue tweeting with hash tags!
Marketing Your Ebook: Part 2
Those experienced with marketing an ebook, say that marketing should start before the book is published. The author should have a market of readers waiting to read the book, anticipating the publication of the ebook, which I think is a great idea, but I did not do it. If I had done it, the title of my book would not have been correct, as I changed the title several times in the draft copies of my book until I found the title which truly seemed to fit. I could easily fit two short words on the cover of my book, Walk Forward, comprising two short words not only fit on the cover, but is a theme of the book and repeated in the contents more than any other phrase. It was the perfect title!
I am trying to market my ebook, Walk Forward, after publication on Amazon Kindle Select.
I emailed family and friends and asked them to share the link. Putting the link in the email makes it easy for them to find the book. I purchased 10 ISBNs from Bowker as discussed in an earlier post, but in email to family and friends it is easiest for them if one includes the Amazon link, which includes the ASIN, a unique code assigned by Amazon to the ebook. The ASIN of Walk Forward is B009H6Y7AC.
Many ebook sites ask for the ISBN or ASIN of the ebook.
The ASIN, the Amazon Standard Identification Number, is a unique identification number assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within Amazon.com
I emailed my LinkedIn ebook publishing groups. These groups were tremendously helpful as they checked my book's page on Amazon. Members emailed me to select tags for the book on its page in the Amazon database. Amazon allows 15 tags per item and my LinkedIn group emailed that I should take full advantage of the feature and assign as many tags as permitted.
A few family and friends said they would like to write a review and I hope they do! I only have two reviews of the book to date.
Someone suggested that I "gift" the book to family and friends, which I did, but only one or two of the persons I gifted actually downloaded the book.
The reason family and friends are not receipting the gifted book is because they thought they had to own a Kindle or other reading device. Now that I emailed them that they could read the book in the Amazon Cloud, download an appropriate apps, or "Kindle for the PC," they are happy campers!
I sent the link to hundreds of organizations, which I determined might have an interest, tweeted about my new published book, created a Facebook page for the book, a website for the book which includes photographs related to the story in my book, and included relevant hash tags (#), the list of which I will include in a later posting.
Since I placed Walk Forward in the Amazon Kindle Select Program, I have 5 promotion days each 90 day period during which my book is free. My first free day is this Thursday, October 11, 2012, and I am actively submitting my book to the many sites that advertise free ebooks.
What is really great about publishing a book on Amazon is that one see the sales of the book in their "Report Module," my favorite module! An author can easily review the current and retrospective sales of their book.
I identified some secrets to the selecting sites to which to post the free book promotion days, if they prove to work, I will post!
I am trying to market my ebook, Walk Forward, after publication on Amazon Kindle Select.
I emailed family and friends and asked them to share the link. Putting the link in the email makes it easy for them to find the book. I purchased 10 ISBNs from Bowker as discussed in an earlier post, but in email to family and friends it is easiest for them if one includes the Amazon link, which includes the ASIN, a unique code assigned by Amazon to the ebook. The ASIN of Walk Forward is B009H6Y7AC.
Many ebook sites ask for the ISBN or ASIN of the ebook.
The ASIN, the Amazon Standard Identification Number, is a unique identification number assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within Amazon.com
I emailed my LinkedIn ebook publishing groups. These groups were tremendously helpful as they checked my book's page on Amazon. Members emailed me to select tags for the book on its page in the Amazon database. Amazon allows 15 tags per item and my LinkedIn group emailed that I should take full advantage of the feature and assign as many tags as permitted.
A few family and friends said they would like to write a review and I hope they do! I only have two reviews of the book to date.
Someone suggested that I "gift" the book to family and friends, which I did, but only one or two of the persons I gifted actually downloaded the book.
The reason family and friends are not receipting the gifted book is because they thought they had to own a Kindle or other reading device. Now that I emailed them that they could read the book in the Amazon Cloud, download an appropriate apps, or "Kindle for the PC," they are happy campers!
I sent the link to hundreds of organizations, which I determined might have an interest, tweeted about my new published book, created a Facebook page for the book, a website for the book which includes photographs related to the story in my book, and included relevant hash tags (#), the list of which I will include in a later posting.
Since I placed Walk Forward in the Amazon Kindle Select Program, I have 5 promotion days each 90 day period during which my book is free. My first free day is this Thursday, October 11, 2012, and I am actively submitting my book to the many sites that advertise free ebooks.
What is really great about publishing a book on Amazon is that one see the sales of the book in their "Report Module," my favorite module! An author can easily review the current and retrospective sales of their book.
I identified some secrets to the selecting sites to which to post the free book promotion days, if they prove to work, I will post!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Marketing Your Ebook: Part 1
Many say that writing the book is the easy part, but marketing is the real challenge.
My book, Walk Forward, was published on Amazon Kindle Select on September 25, 2012. I told family and friends about the book, which because of some early purchases, had a high rating in its very narrow subject area of non fiction, historical, holocaust, young adult, and adult categories.
The reason the numbers were high on first publication was because family and friends purchased several copies, and because the book is in a very narrow subject area.
In hindsight, I discovered the secret of a preliminary high rating, a few sales in a narrow subject area, where relatively few publish. My subject areas not being in the mass market, nor would the masses have interest in my topic.
My book is about the search for my lost sister. A newly found relative read the book and emailed me that I left my great-uncle out of the book. I quickly added him and sent the book to Amazon to update.
Updating is easy, but for one problem. The author can not purchase more than one copy of a book, even if it is an update. I understand that this is true for everyone, one can not buy the original copy of a book and the update, a week or two later! Amazon will send the author the updated version, update the version of the book in the Amazon Cloud, but this might take a few days. Thus, it takes some time to see if the live links to websites included in a book, actually work.
Amazon is aware of the problem with readers wanting to purchase updates of books and I hope this issue is resolved quickly as in the case of my ongoing search for my sister, as more information is found, I hope to include it in updates to the book.
Since I had uploaded a MOBI file, the "preview" module does not include the option of seeing the HTML of the uploaded book. When I click on a live link in the book in "preview" mode, it links to the cover of my book, rather than going out to the link.
To revise a MOBI file, one has to recreate the MOBI file and upload the book once again.
Per updates, I emailed Amazon to find out if I could load a book in MOBI and update in HTML, for example, and they replied "Yes," but I decided to continue with MOBI, which was Amazon Kindle's native file, once-upon-a-time.
The "Look Inside" was immediately updated and Amazon sent me an email saying that my book, meaning my revision, was published. New customers purchasing the book would receive the revised book.
Come back to read "Marketing Your Ebook: Part 2," and follow my journey into the secrets and adventures in ebook publishing as it happens!
My book, Walk Forward, was published on Amazon Kindle Select on September 25, 2012. I told family and friends about the book, which because of some early purchases, had a high rating in its very narrow subject area of non fiction, historical, holocaust, young adult, and adult categories.
The reason the numbers were high on first publication was because family and friends purchased several copies, and because the book is in a very narrow subject area.
In hindsight, I discovered the secret of a preliminary high rating, a few sales in a narrow subject area, where relatively few publish. My subject areas not being in the mass market, nor would the masses have interest in my topic.
My book is about the search for my lost sister. A newly found relative read the book and emailed me that I left my great-uncle out of the book. I quickly added him and sent the book to Amazon to update.
Updating is easy, but for one problem. The author can not purchase more than one copy of a book, even if it is an update. I understand that this is true for everyone, one can not buy the original copy of a book and the update, a week or two later! Amazon will send the author the updated version, update the version of the book in the Amazon Cloud, but this might take a few days. Thus, it takes some time to see if the live links to websites included in a book, actually work.
Amazon is aware of the problem with readers wanting to purchase updates of books and I hope this issue is resolved quickly as in the case of my ongoing search for my sister, as more information is found, I hope to include it in updates to the book.
Since I had uploaded a MOBI file, the "preview" module does not include the option of seeing the HTML of the uploaded book. When I click on a live link in the book in "preview" mode, it links to the cover of my book, rather than going out to the link.
To revise a MOBI file, one has to recreate the MOBI file and upload the book once again.
Per updates, I emailed Amazon to find out if I could load a book in MOBI and update in HTML, for example, and they replied "Yes," but I decided to continue with MOBI, which was Amazon Kindle's native file, once-upon-a-time.
The "Look Inside" was immediately updated and Amazon sent me an email saying that my book, meaning my revision, was published. New customers purchasing the book would receive the revised book.
Come back to read "Marketing Your Ebook: Part 2," and follow my journey into the secrets and adventures in ebook publishing as it happens!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Walk Forward - Updating Book
I love Amazon Kindle's Report module, but not too happy about the steps I need to take to revise a duplicate content word entry and an extra space in a hyphenated word in them text of my book, Walk Forward.
Problem is that to fix the errors in the free part of the book, I can not go up to Amazon.com and just fix, as I did with the "Book Description", I have to redo in Open Office, convert to .mobi again, and send it through the Amazon grinder again. The steps seem to be overkill as all I need to do is fix a hyphenated word that has an extra space and delete a duplicate word!
I continue to Walk Forward m to uncover the secrets of ebook publishing! I love the picture of my Mom on the book's cover, hope you do to?
Problem is that to fix the errors in the free part of the book, I can not go up to Amazon.com and just fix, as I did with the "Book Description", I have to redo in Open Office, convert to .mobi again, and send it through the Amazon grinder again. The steps seem to be overkill as all I need to do is fix a hyphenated word that has an extra space and delete a duplicate word!
I continue to Walk Forward m to uncover the secrets of ebook publishing! I love the picture of my Mom on the book's cover, hope you do to?
Walk Forward - Housekeeping
I felt courageous and clicked on the "look inside" my 3-day-old book, Walk Forward, and noticed two conversion errors in the first 10% of the book. One word was repeated, and a hyphenated word did not convert correctly. I had read about the second error type, but not the first. I wish I did not have any errors in my first few chapters and am perplexed as to how the errors happened. Fixing them is simple, if one likes to format and convert files, but I have no plans to format in the near future, am seeing code in my sleep, and continue to search for any secrets to the process of ebook publishing!
When some of my paragraphs failed to indent, I could verify that code was missing, I saw the missing symbols, but no matter what I tried, I could not add the needed code. I finally had to alter my content to fit the formatting -- luckily, I am the author of the book and can add or delete content!
Many of you are formatting, please share any and all secret fixes, so that we might all save time!
Seems like a list of common errors observed after formatting or sending a file to be ground up, would be well received, certainly by this author!
Starting with plain HTML is my secret and made the process easier than those I read about. I had little manual labor to do, did not have to go through pages correcting code. I had no extraneous code in my manuscript. Using Open Office has some advantages and Word has others, but since I am not comfortable with the new Word program on my computer, I used Open Office and recommend it.
Breathing on a manuscript seems to propagate extraneous code, and holding one's breath, as I did, apparently makes some needed code mysteriously disappear!
There is much housekeeping to do the first days after publication for a single platform. I have not found
a "to do" list anywhere, but am finding out by the helpful hints of those reading Walk Forward.
One reader emailed that she loved the book, would like to "like" my tags, but I have none!
Another told me she could not find me in "author central" -- maybe an issue per my maiden name?
Amazon prompted me for an RSS feed to my blogs, and I have no clue how to do, but will be reading about it in the wee hours of the morning!
I want to respond to the email and telephone calls I am receiving about the book. I am being asked "Rosa, where did you get all of those details?" -- the answer is that I was lucky that my mother kept a journal which I found after she died last year. Adding details to the stories I remembered was easy, as she wrote them down. This was long before I was serious about writing a book. It remains a very emotional process, because I miss her very much.
Summary, one can not do a half decent job if attacking all platforms at once. The housekeeping tasks are keeping me busy 24/7. I am glad that I am only on Amazon!
My book keeps moving from #6 to #4 and back again, in several of its categories, and I can not help scrolling back and forth between Amazon's incredible report module and my book's web page.
I highly recommend checking Amazon's incredible report module which includes statistics on my book in real time!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Walk Forward
The picture on the cover of my book is a picture of my mother, Louise V. Shine, taken in 1938.
I published my book, Walk Forward, yesterday, and am truly amazed at how quickly Amazon loaded the book on their platform! I am also impressed with their "Author Central" option and "Report" module to keep track of everything.
I decided to try the Kindle Select program, which has an exclusive on my book for 90 days, as I like having the book available in the Kindle Lending Library. I love libraries and hope to get hard copies of my book into libraries one day.
The book is targeted to young adults and adults, has one five star review, and sold two copies in its first few hours of life on the Amazon Kindle Select platform. A few hours later, 5 copies of the book were downloaded.
I will be pleased if the book helps uncover a single new secret about my lost sister.
If you have any interest in family relationships or history, please send the link for the book to your family and friends:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
Friday, August 3, 2012
Editing the Book
O.K. I made mistake #1 by sending out my first completed draft. The idea was to get comments from close family and friends and do one major edit! Guess I was more than a little naive?
After my Israeli cousin's edit, I did my first major rewrite of the entire book and wondered if my work was worthy to go forward?
Mistake #2, I revised the entire book quickly and immediately sent the next version to family members who kindly replied, they would keep editing the first draft! Not only was I adding to their reading load, I was filling up their email program with my short book, yet too long a file for daily correspondence.
The same cousin that reviewed the heck out of the book, was the most encouraging as she had gone through the same process. She had written a book about our family, her inspiration being a long letter that my father and his brother wrote to her mother, their first cousin.
Yes, her book is in a foreign language with a few captions in English. My book includes both my parents, not just my father. My book is in English with the hope for translations.
My advice is to keep encouraging persons and other writers around you, as you continue to write, rewrite and edit your book.
If you wish, include a hook at the end of your book for the sequel!
I am getting advice from my college adviser of 40+ years to publish a few hard copies in addition to the ebook.
-- Yes, one of the best kept secrets is to never lose connection with your college adviser.
He just emailed me to consider CreateSpace and Blurb for hard copies. I had read about both but no time yet to compare!
If your adviser is as incredible as mine, he or she will continue to be at least one step ahead of you, like in days gone by when you were the student.
I love mine, hope you at least keep in contact with yours!
Keep on writing.
After my Israeli cousin's edit, I did my first major rewrite of the entire book and wondered if my work was worthy to go forward?
Mistake #2, I revised the entire book quickly and immediately sent the next version to family members who kindly replied, they would keep editing the first draft! Not only was I adding to their reading load, I was filling up their email program with my short book, yet too long a file for daily correspondence.
The same cousin that reviewed the heck out of the book, was the most encouraging as she had gone through the same process. She had written a book about our family, her inspiration being a long letter that my father and his brother wrote to her mother, their first cousin.
Yes, her book is in a foreign language with a few captions in English. My book includes both my parents, not just my father. My book is in English with the hope for translations.
My advice is to keep encouraging persons and other writers around you, as you continue to write, rewrite and edit your book.
If you wish, include a hook at the end of your book for the sequel!
I am getting advice from my college adviser of 40+ years to publish a few hard copies in addition to the ebook.
-- Yes, one of the best kept secrets is to never lose connection with your college adviser.
He just emailed me to consider CreateSpace and Blurb for hard copies. I had read about both but no time yet to compare!
If your adviser is as incredible as mine, he or she will continue to be at least one step ahead of you, like in days gone by when you were the student.
I love mine, hope you at least keep in contact with yours!
Keep on writing.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Clarification of ISBNs and Ebook continued
I called Bowker, the company from whom I will buy my ISBNs. Bowker told me today that my ten ISBNs will wait for me. I do not have to pay an annual fee. For publishers who buy a multitude of ISBNs there is an option of accessing a spreadsheet including all their ISBNs. There is an annual fee for this spreadsheet. For ten ISBNs no spreadsheet is needed. Since I know I will need two ISBNs, I decided to buy ten as two are the same price as ten.
My book is in final review. I hope to format my book in some generic file so that I can prepare a version for each of the ebook platforms. I wrote my book in HTML, inserted it into Open Office and saved it in the format preferred by each of my reviewers.
Because I wanted to write at the most generic level and hate to do any kind of formatting, I rather insert style via codes in my word processor than have to delete extraneous code from my document.
Fixing extraneous code is labor intensive!
I wrote my book in the most simple, generic HTML. I limited myself to the opening and closing tags, no font tags included. Formatting codes will be added to my simple document in Open Office.
My book is in final review. I hope to format my book in some generic file so that I can prepare a version for each of the ebook platforms. I wrote my book in HTML, inserted it into Open Office and saved it in the format preferred by each of my reviewers.
Because I wanted to write at the most generic level and hate to do any kind of formatting, I rather insert style via codes in my word processor than have to delete extraneous code from my document.
Fixing extraneous code is labor intensive!
I wrote my book in the most simple, generic HTML. I limited myself to the opening and closing tags, no font tags included. Formatting codes will be added to my simple document in Open Office.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
ISBN's, How Many Does One Ebook Need?
My book is going into final editing, I have a possible ebook cover for Walk Forward, what do I need next?
Time to think about ISBN's for each version of my book. Since I want my book to be available in various formats, I will most probably buy the set of 10 ISBN's. I know that I will have a .pdf, ePub and maybe a few hard copies of the book down the road. I want to be able to track the book myself. I know that many books have similar titles but each has a unique ISBN.
I plan on uploading the book to Amazon, Smashwords and any vendor that will take my ebook. Down the road, I might want a hard copy too. I know that the ebook cover I made will have to be revised for a hard copy book where the cover wraps around the book. I have no idea now as to how many pages a hard copy of my book might have. In hard copy, my text might appear in larger font for my target of young adults, but then again, the book is also for adult readers.
I want to submit my book to any online publisher willing to let me upload it, thus, expect more than two book formats. Perhaps, I will publish a version with photographs and one without, this would require another ISBN! Maybe my book will have a new cover or need revisions sooner than I might expect.
Guess it is better to buy the batch of 10 than run out!
The ISBN is the unique identifier for a particular format of the book. I don't think I really need 10 ISBN's but since 10 cost the same as 2, and I am sure I need at least 3, I might as well buy the set of 10.
Are there any negatives to buying 10 ISBN's and not using them all immediately? I don't know but plan to call Bowker, the only company allowed to sell ISBN's. I wonder if there is a penalty in not assigning all 10 ISBN's in a reasonable time period? I can not imagine that it will take me 10 years to write a second book although I have been writing content for my first book for more than 20 years!
Is there a fee or penalty for holding my 10 ISBN's, which I assume will be numbers in a series? I don't know for sure, heard there was some sort of annual fee? I must find out as hate to commit to annual fees.
What about translations? I assume if someone creates a translation of the book, the new translated version will need another ISBN. If I change the cover design and a few photographs, this would require ISBN's!
Maybe my first ebook will need more revisions than I can now possibly imagine?
Ten ISBN's seems much for my first attempt at an ebook and my second book is but a vision. I have read Bowker's section on why one should buy an ISBN.
No matter the price or how many, as a librarian, I know that an ISBN is priceless!
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