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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Hugh Howey - and Self Publishing


 Little more than a year ago, Howey was just another sci-fi author trying to maneuver his way through the world of self-publishing after a not-so-successful experience with a small publishing house. Today, his book Wool is a smashing success with more than 300,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone and a film optioned by 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott. He's the face of a new era in publishing, and he's just as surprised as anyone.

 "The funny thing was, Howey didn't need a publisher. He was doing just fine on his own. "You do so well self-published, it's hard for publishers to compete with what you can do on your own," he says. "I make 70 percent royalty rates on sales here in the U.S., and if I went with a publisher, that would be cut to almost one-sixth. And so, you know, we sat down with them, and they had some nice offers, but I'm handing them a bestseller with a film contract attached and all of these other things attached and what they're offering is just not as good as what I'm doing currently. I showed them what I'm earning now, and they kind of said, I don't know if we can compete with that."

Read the full article here 

Monday, 12 November 2012

KD Publishing Pro Review


KD Publishing Pro - revolutionary
Kindle ebook publishing software!


Amazon Self Publishing was Never this Easy



Introducing the tool that slashes your workload in half, allowing you to format and publish multiple titles perfectly, with push button simplicity!

Click Here to Grab Your Copy of KD Publishing Pro Today!
 
 

 What an Amazing Gift from AMAZON.COM to All Self-Publishing Authors!

Anyone who has written a Self-Improvement Book, a How-to-Report, a Fiction or Non-Fiction Novel, in fact all authors and writers, knows they stand to generate an enormous amount of recurring income by self-publishing to the Kindle Bookstore.

Realizing the demand for digital products, Amazon.com expanded their client base, by developing a Reader App for Every Available Platform, this by default increased the client base for all their authors!  

This is No Small Gift At All, as Amazon.com is currently the biggest and one of the most trusted online stores in the world, they hold the credit card information of 300 million online shoppers.

If you plan do self publishing, selling Kindle ebooks via Amazon.com is a total no-brainer!

The more books, the more of an expert you appear, the more chance your target buyers will find you, and the more leads you can drive back to your real offers.  

BUT the Manual PROCESS is NOT without Hassles. 

The Formatting 
Getting the formatting of your eBook to look good on all the different Kindle devices is downright difficult, time consuming and tedious to say the least. Unless you're a programmer or is prepared to hire expensive freelancers, you will spend hours if not days on getting the formatting correct, just to find once your book is submitted to the Kindle Network, it still sucks!


The Kindle Preview Tool Misbehaves
You may know your technical stuff and the book looks perfect on your MS Word screen, but the Kindle Preview tool does not show all your errors - .so you're back to square one!


Why is this Such an Issue?
  • Horribly formatted text will impact negatively on your sales!
  • Amazon will reject your eBook if the formatting sucks - which mean more time delays!
  • The Amazon shopper is trained to give an honest review on the purchases they've made - You Want Excellent Reviews!
  • Time is Money if You want to Publish multiple eBooks you want software that allows you to work fast & won't let you down.

The Solution

Formatting and publishing to Kindle is not without hassles, and that's why most people give up way too early.

But for those that have the right tools, mass publishing on Kindle is a walk in the park.




KD Publishing Pro, is a revolutionary software program developed by Bobby Walker and Dave Guindon with the explicit goal to help authors with all of the above-mentioned issues.

Not only does it handle all the nasty formatting woes that Kindle is known for, but it allows you to mass submit dozens of lead generating books on Kindle every day.


 KD Publishing Pro enables you to:
    • Create brand new eBooks within the Chapter Editor.
    • Copy and Paste existing books, format for Kindle and Submit.
    • Automatically insert and format your Table of Contents.
    • Submit a single or multiple publications to Kindle
    • Get Sales Stats on all your publication.
 Additional unique features are:
    • Stores multiple Kindle accounts
    • 2 Clicks to Submit to Kindle
    • Manage all your Kindle books in one control panel
    • Get Sales Stats on All Your Submissions
    • The delay feature help prevent red flags at Amazon, when you submit dozens of books per session.
Efficiency at your Fingertips
  • You don't have to log into Kindle each time you want to publish, edit of check your stats.
  • Uncluttered Desktop  - One folder per project.
  • Comes with it's own build-in word processor.

Hurry You Don't want to Miss the Special!

Watch this short video and see for Yourself why everybody wants KD Publishing Pro.

This tool has been in the lab for a loooong time, but Bobby has finally released it at a special launch price, so grab it now, before it doubles in price, or gets taken off sale.









Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Self Publishing Amazon with KD Publishing Pro




What does the KD Publishing Pro program hold in store for You?
Being a revolutionary / first of a kind product – me ranting and raving about it’s value would help you as much as a hole in the head – thus the only way for me to provide you with any value is to walk you through it. The result is it borders on a training manual – Outrageous!  I know.





The KD Publishing Pro program opens with four tabs, My Book, Book Info, Submit and Sales Stats.



The MY BOOK Tab
This is where you create your books.  Click the CREATE button in the lower right hand corner to open the Book Content Screen.

Enter the Title, Author for your eBook, (you may use a Pen Name) and choose the Folder you want to Save your eBook into, then Tick the Add Copyright page and enter the Name of your Publishing Company, if you’ve registered one.


Click the Add Chapter button in the lower left hand corner to open the Chapter Editor screen.  You will find the screens are beautifully Uncluttered and User friendly.






The CHAPTER EDITOR screen brings you all the editing functionality you’re familiar with as an MS Word or Open Office Writer user.  Just paste your text into the body space beneath the header and go wild.

The Chapter Editor opens by default on the Home Tab, where you can:
Copy, Paste, change Font Types, Size and Color, Bold, Italize Underline and Double Underline, Strikethrough, Super and Sub Script, Create Bullets, Numbered Lists, Increase and Decrease Indents, Left, Right, Center and Justify, Find and Replace text.

On the File Tab you can:
Use Quick Print to send your document to the default printer, Click the Print Icon to change printers and set the number of copies to be printed.  Use the Undo and Redo buttons reverse or re-instate actions.

On the Insert Tab you can:
Insert Pages, Tables, Pictures, Bookmarks, Hyperlinks, Headers, Footers, Symbols and Initial Caps to Paragraphs.

On the Page Layout Tab you can
Change the margins, orientation and page size, Split Text into two or more Columns, Add Page Section and Column Breaks and Add Line Numbers in the margin alongside your text.

On the View Tab you can:
Use the Simple View to do easy text editing, omit Headers and Footers in Draft View, or use Layout View Print to see what your book will look like once it’s printed.

On the References Tab you can:
Modify your Table of Content.  The PD Publishing Pro program will automatically create the Table of Content for you – no more hassles trying to link to the proper pages.

On the Design Tab 1 you can:
Once you’ve open either the Header or Footer options on the Insert Tab click the first Design Tab to toggle between the Header and Footer areas, specify a unique Header and Footer for the First Page of your document, or specify odd-numbered pages to have a different Header and Footer than even numbered pages and finally close both the Header and Footer areas when your done.

On Design tab 2 you can:
Work with the Shading and Borders of Tables you have inserted via the Insert Tab.

Table Styles and Formatting
It is just much easier to show you than writing it all out. With your cursor in the cell or range of cells you want to work with, click the drop arrow and choose what you want.




 

On the Layout Tab you can:
As you can see from the image below, the Layout Tab is all about fast and easy working with Tables.   From the Selection Arrow icon through to the Alignment within Cells icons, this tab make working with Tables a pleasure.









Once you have completed formatting and adding all of the chapters to the program, click the OK Button at the bottom of the Chapter Editor screen, to return to the Book Content screen under the Create Book tab





The Marketing Tab





If you should publish your eBook, after toiling over it for hours if not days, without any additional marketing / affiliate links in it – you are leaving Dollars on the Table.

What is an Affiliate Link?
Being an affiliate is the online equivalent of being a representative / sales person for a brick and mortar company.  When you want to promote the product of an online merchant, you sign on as an affiliate for them and they provide you with a piece of script (known as your affiliate link) to identify and link the sales  generated by your marketing endeavors to you.  These online merchants may have hundreds of affiliates marketing / promoting any variety of their merchandise so it is imperative to be able to tie the sale (and therefore the receiver of the sales commission) to the appropriate affiliate.

Where can You Sign up!
Your best bet would be to sign up with Clickbank you can find then at http://www.clickbank,com, it is free to join and they do not require that you own a website, as most other merchants would, to promote their products.




 Other merchants to consider is Amazon.com and Commission Junction.