Joanna is still self-publishing…
A few weeks back, I published a blog about my experiences of self-publishing ebooks on Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital (D2D). I promised I’d write another blog about how I got on with publishing my books in print. There, my direct experience is with Ingram Spark and D2D, but I’ve had a look at KDP’s print requirements so I’m including some notes about that route, too. And if I’ve got any of it wrong, please tell me in the comments below.
The image shown here is of the D2D paperback of one of my recent Regency historical publications. I think the result is handsome. But do you, the buying public, agree? (The image, by the way, is generated automatically by D2D. I didn’t have to stack up copies to create it, which was a bonus, though I did add the link to the page at Books2Read.com where all my books appear. Do go and buy. Pretty please?)
Pricing: Print Cost, Discounts, Author’s Share
When you’re pricing your book, you have to take into account how much it costs to print it—which depends mostly on how many pages it has—and how much wholesale discount you have to give to a retailer or bookshop. Continue reading
I remember watching the last Royal Wedding on television (well, bits of it) in April 2011. To be honest, I was surprised at how moved I was.
After all, in the past, many royal weddings took place between people who were not much more than pieces on someone else’s chess board.