In general, I think that it is a good idea to keep separate areas of your business under different pen names, but there are a few ways to go about it. If all of your books are going to be the children’s books except for the one book that you use as an ultimate business…
Basically, if you live in Canada or plan on printing anywhere other than KDP Print, you should get them, otherwise it’s basically for vanity. Which is a very valid reason for purchasing your own, but John & Jay don’t see the need and I haven’t gotten around to it yet for my own publishing company…
There are a few considerations when deciding whether you want to purchase your own ISBNs or not. First, if you want to save money and only plan on selling your books through KDP Print and Kindle, then there is no reason not to just use the KDP Print ISBNs other than for vanity reasons. Having…
The answer to this question has two parts, because it was something I needed to think about a bit before I could answer. I’m including both answers I provided to this question because I think both are valid. My initial response: Personally, when I’ve underquoted, I’ve just treated it as a learning experience and make…
If you are going to set up a book for a client in your own KDP account and will be paying them royalties for what they sell, make sure you charge some sort of premium on it. You have the additional book keeping, potential tax liability, and the extra task to complete each month. I…
For my clients, I usually do my work for a flat fee, so if I’m setting up their account then I will either enter their banking information for them or have them enter it once the account is created. For the client that I am paying royalties, then I have his Kindle books under my…
When I get a new client, I talk to them to find out whether they already have accounts set up, whether they want me to set up the accounts for them, or whether they want to set them up themselves. With the folks that I’ve worked with, most have just had me set everything up…
As for my payment process, I do one of two things. I get a check from the person (pretty much how all my local transactions take place) or I create a payment link in Paypal and email the payment link. If it’s a recurring payment, I’m just using Paypal’s recurring payments. I used to have a merchant…
I haven’t personally used Overdrive yet; it’s on my list of things to do that just haven’t gotten done yet. I’ve looked into the process for putting books up; you can make them available in many different formats, be that PDF, mobi (kindle) or epub. Personally, I don’t think there’s a problem selling to libraries….
There are two issues here. First, if it doesn’t make sense to split up your books, there is no reason to and you should submit it as a single work. The beauty of a digital format is that you don’t have to worry about “bulk” when trying to read a long work, and you can…
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