Get Your Book Into Print – Professional Formatting Course
Get Your Book Into Print – Professional Formatting Course, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 3.8, with 58 lectures, based on 66 reviews, and has 1051 subscribers.
You will learn about To increase your royalties by earning through print sales and increasing your Kindle sales due to the cost comparison with your print book In this course you will learn how to format your manuscript to CreateSpace's standards You will learn additional formatting tips that will make your finished book look very professional You will learn how to format your book's cover to CreateSpace's standards If you have your books formatted by other people, this course will enable you to check them and make alterations without messing up the formatting, line spacing, table of contents, etc. At the end of the course you will be able to produce a beautifully formatted, professional-looking book that can be live on Amazon (and linked to your Kindle version if you have one) within a week. Having your book in paperback can mean increased royalties – both from the paperback itself, and from increased Kindle sales as the Kindle version will be cheaper than the paperback and seem like a bargain! This course is ideal for individuals who are Authors or Udemy instructors who want to turn their course into a book or Writers or Anyone who wants to publish a book or Kindle authors or Kobo authors It is particularly useful for Authors or Udemy instructors who want to turn their course into a book or Writers or Anyone who wants to publish a book or Kindle authors or Kobo authors.
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Summary
Title: Get Your Book Into Print – Professional Formatting Course
Price: $44.99
Average Rating: 3.8
Number of Lectures: 58
Number of Published Lectures: 57
Number of Curriculum Items: 58
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 57
Original Price: $29.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- To increase your royalties by earning through print sales and increasing your Kindle sales due to the cost comparison with your print book
- In this course you will learn how to format your manuscript to CreateSpace's standards
- You will learn additional formatting tips that will make your finished book look very professional
- You will learn how to format your book's cover to CreateSpace's standards
- If you have your books formatted by other people, this course will enable you to check them and make alterations without messing up the formatting, line spacing, table of contents, etc.
- At the end of the course you will be able to produce a beautifully formatted, professional-looking book that can be live on Amazon (and linked to your Kindle version if you have one) within a week.
- Having your book in paperback can mean increased royalties – both from the paperback itself, and from increased Kindle sales as the Kindle version will be cheaper than the paperback and seem like a bargain!
Who Should Attend
- Authors
- Udemy instructors who want to turn their course into a book
- Writers
- Anyone who wants to publish a book
- Kindle authors
- Kobo authors
Target Audiences
- Authors
- Udemy instructors who want to turn their course into a book
- Writers
- Anyone who wants to publish a book
- Kindle authors
- Kobo authors
LATEST: Guarantee – if you struggle to format your book, I will do it for you and show you how I did it. For less than the price of paying a professional formatter to do one book for you, you can join this course and learn how to format all your books.
Join over 600 authors on this course. Learn quickly, get your books in print, and your royalties could be double NEXT MONTH.
I am available for advice and support every step of the way. If you get stuck, holler!
Double your royalties – really?
I did. Well, actually, I more than doubled them. My print sales have overtaken my digital sales on some books. I was shocked – until I published this course and students reported that they were making more money – either by the presence of their print book stimulating sales of their Kindle book (because the print book looks inexpensive in comparison), or by great print sales.
You too can make more money from your Kindle books by getting them into print via CreateSpace. A print book can increase your royalties both by making sales itself and by increasing your Kindle sales due to the cost comparison.
Sales of eBooks have overtaken sales of paperback and hardback books combined. However, that doesn’t mean that physical books don’t sell anymore – they do. Amazon sell 118 eBooks for every 100 physical books. That’s still a lot of physical books being sold! It depends on your genre, but many authors report that their print sales actually overtake their digital sales in December and August – holiday periods. We all seem to prefer real books on the beach and for use as gifts!
There’s a lot less competition in the physical book arena as most of the Internet Marketers stick to Kindle books. Kindle eBooks are quick and easy to publish – formatting for paperback takes a bit more time. It’s wellworth it, though.
Having a paperback version of your eBook can help increase your royalties for a number of reasons.
- More Kindle sales – Your eBook sales can increase because the cost of the paperback is generally more, making the eBook look much better value
- A new source of royalties – You may find that you make a good number of paperback sales. People still like physical books. They are much better for reading in the bath! I recently had an illness that prevented me from looking at a screen (it hurt). It made me put away my Kindle for the first time in months and dig out a load of paperbacks. There are lots of people who prefer physical books, for various reasons.
- Increased credibility – Fewer Indie authors take the plunge into print so you will be part of a more select group. That raises your credibility and could lead to more opportunities, such as guest blogging, interviews on podcasts, etc.
- You need a physical book to schedule a Goodreads Giveaway. If you haven’t heard of Goodreads, you might want to check it out, it’s where passionate readers hang out. Giveaways are mini competitions that members enter to try to win free books. Even if you can only afford to buy one paperback version of your book, you can schedule a Giveaway and offer that. The beauty of them is that they attract an average of 825 entries each. That’s 825 people seeing your book who may not otherwise have come across it – and all their Goodreads friends (and possibly their Facebook) will see it in their update feeds. That’s how viral popularity starts. It worked for E.L. James with ’50 Shades of Grey’; it worked for Ally Condie with ‘Matched’; it could work for you too.
However, many authors confess to finding the formatting of their manuscript to CreateSpace’s standards to be difficult. Who has the time to spend hours learning, fiddling, tweaking, proofing, and submitting?
This course can save you days and days of fumbling around trying to discover the best ways of formatting your manuscript yourself. It will enable you – once you have completed the course – to get a book into CreateSpace-ready format in around an hour. If you struggle at any point, I will do it for you and show you exactly what I did to get it right.
The course is packed with information, practical steps and activities, as well as tons of bonuses, such as PDF downloads and checklists to guide you along the way. It won’t take you more than an hour or two to complete and the benefits will be with you forever. You can pick and mix to just study the bits you need, if you already know how to do the formatting but want to learn how to produce books that are professional enough to stand side-by-side with traditionally-published books.
The course has a full guarantee and will be accessible whenever you need to check back, in case you forget something. I will also keep it up-to-date and add new resources as time goes on.
You are welcome to ask questions, I’ll support you all I can. You can find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter if I don’t respond quickly enough on Udemy! (They don’t always send out announcements about new questions.)
NOTE: This course is currently mostlysuitable for Windows users (due to the demise of my Mac!).
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction and First Steps
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
Lecture 2: Introduction to your host
Lecture 3: First Steps – What You Need To Publish On CreateSpace
Chapter 2: Signing Up And Finding Your Way Around CreateSpace
Lecture 1: Signing up with CreateSpace and navigating the site
Lecture 2: ISBNs
Chapter 3: Formatting Your Manuscript
Lecture 1: Introduction to formatting – Anatomy of a CreateSpace template
Lecture 2: Download A CreateSpace Template
Lecture 3: Looking At How The 6"x9" Template Is Set Up
Lecture 4: Setting The Margins
Lecture 5: Setting The Page Size
Lecture 6: Altering The Section & Header/Footer Setup
Lecture 7: More on page numbers, headers & footers
Lecture 8: ACTION STEP: Make your own template
Lecture 9: Introduction To Making It Beautiful
Lecture 10: A Neat Trick To Make Your Book Look Professionally-Published
Lecture 11: Serif or Sans Serif?
Lecture 12: About Hyphenation
Lecture 13: Font Sizes
Lecture 14: Where To Find Fonts
Lecture 15: Line Spacing
Lecture 16: Making It Beautiful – Drop Caps
Lecture 17: Making It Beautiful – Glyphs
Lecture 18: Sourcing Images
Lecture 19: About Image Quality – Those Dreaded 300dpis!
Chapter 4: Adding Your Cover
Lecture 1: Covers Intro
Lecture 2: Uploading A Print-Ready PDF Cover
Lecture 3: Using The CreateSpace Cover Creator
Lecture 4: Using CreateSpace's Cover Design Team
Lecture 5: Finding A Designer
Lecture 6: Calculate Book Jacket Dimensions
Chapter 5: Uploading To CreateSpace
Lecture 1: Uploading
Lecture 2: The Interior Reviewer
Chapter 6: Reviewing
Lecture 1: Reviewing
Chapter 7: Creating Boxed Sets Of Your Books
Lecture 1: Introduction to creating boxed sets
Lecture 2: How to create multiple TOCs in one document
Chapter 8: FAQ
Lecture 1: FAQ – Royalties and Taxes
Lecture 2: FAQ – Ordering Copies
Lecture 3: FAQ – More on headers, footers & page numbering
Lecture 4: Question about how to layout blank pages in a specialist book
Chapter 9: Industry Insight
Lecture 1: Interview with Phil Ebiner, creator of 'Design Your Own eBook Cover' course
Chapter 10: BONUSES – Templates, Book Anatomies, Getting Your Book Into Bookstores
Lecture 1: Getting Your Book Into Bookstores
Lecture 2: Anatomy of a book : Eric Ives's 'Anne Boleyn'
Lecture 3: Template – Historical Novel
Lecture 4: Template – In The Style Of A Popular Technical Manual
Lecture 5: *NEW* Template – In The Style Of A Non-Fiction Book 1
Lecture 6: *NEW* Template – In The Style Of A Non-Fiction Book 2 (A 4-Hour Book!)
Lecture 7: Formatting A Novel – Part I
Lecture 8: Formatting A Novel – Part II
Chapter 11: Wrap-Up
Lecture 1: Wrap-Up
Lecture 2: Recent FAQs
Chapter 12: New & Newsworthy
Lecture 1: Kindle MatchBook
Lecture 2: Expanded Distribution Is Now Free
Lecture 3: New Cover Finish Choices
Lecture 4: CreateSpace new initiative
Lecture 5: Bonus marketing tutorial – use Haiku Deck & SlideShare to get email signups
Chapter 13: Live Format Examples
Lecture 1: Live Format: Nonfiction – Take Off Your Pants by Libbie Hawker Pt 1
Lecture 2: Live Format: Nonfiction – Take Off Your Pants by Libbie Hawker Pt 2
Instructors
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Michelle Campbell-Scott
Bestselling author & premium instructor
Rating Distribution
- 1 stars: 2 votes
- 2 stars: 2 votes
- 3 stars: 7 votes
- 4 stars: 18 votes
- 5 stars: 37 votes
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