That’s a great question and one with an answer that could be an entire book in and of itself! There are a few things to consider. First, if you are in doubt, then keep things relatively simple. Readability is the most important thing! If it’s painful to read your book, very few people will bother…
There are two ways you can go about handling links and new content. If you want to make a change to your book, you never have to take a link down, you just upload a new version and it will go live as soon as it is approved by Amazon. The old copy will continue…
Using an “avoiding pain” style of title can be an effective strategy for selling more copies of the book, but remember that your UBC won’t necessarily be something that you care about selling…that’s a bonus. Your book is going to be one of the ways that you brand yourself, so you need to decide what…
What you want to do is scan the book in using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). You could scan each page and run it through software yourself, but that is a lot of work! I recommend hiring an OCR scanning service that will do it for you. The google search phrase to find a service is…
You have a few options depending upon the type of children’s book you are making. The easiest way is to follow Jay’s model…he has quite a few books in the “Fart Books” (and now the family avengers) series which is basically a chapter heading followed by an image followed by the text for that chapter…
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…
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…
Resolution is basically the number of dots (for print) or pixels (for screen) per inch; if you want to increase the resolution from 72 to 240 or 300 dpi, then you can do that in some image editing software. However, if you don’t at the same time make the image smaller then you will lose…
Color is much more expensive, and from Jay’s experience is much less consistent than black & white. Basically, if your market can bear a price where you can make a profit with the higher production costs, or if a profit is less of a concern and you’re still able to price competitively, then it doesn’t hurt to test things…
You want to appear professional, and there are some standards that apply to the reading experience that may be little things in and of themselves, but readers will notice them (even if they can’t tell what it is they are noticing) and will be able to tell if a book wasn’t professionally produced. So, here’s…
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