Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors: Learn How to Write, Design, Format, Upload, and Sell Your Own Book for Low Cost or Free.

Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors

Learn How to Write, Design, Format, Upload, and Sell Your Own Book for Low Cost or Free.

by Robert C. Worstell

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Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors - Learn how to write, design, format, upload, and sell your own book for low cost or free. by Robert C. Worstell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

WARNING: Controversy ahead! This book contradicts the best experts.

How this book can help you

You probably have a story inside you that's just busting to get out. Most people do. The main reason I wrote this is because (and maybe you've had this experience) - it was talking too loud in my own head. Now it's talking to you.

What the traditional publishing houses and self-styled experts in this area promote is that it takes a lot of money to have a bestseller.

It wasn't true for Amanda Hocking. She became a million-seller by age 28 – all self-published, and started out doing everything by herself.

Practically, all these experts are proving that there is more money in telling people how to self-publish than there is in writing self-published books. (Just as more people got rich from selling picks, shovels, pans, jeans, and whiskey to gold miners than any of these miners.)

The story for you here is that you're about to learn how to start from where you are now and get your story published – beginning today, with what is within reach of your own hands. I've been where you are now, and already have done the research and bought the books at my own cost in order to give you a leg up.

This book was written for you.

This book is kept short, and has lots of links in it so you can make up your own mind about how you want to proceed. The reason I wrote it was to scratch my own itch. I've been self-publishing since 2006 and have more than 4 dozen books out there, most in multiple formats. They haven't been selling as well as I liked. Also, ebooks have finally matured enough that they've become a viable sales platform.

I'm getting this out to you even before I have all my other books converted to this new write-print-market blueprint.

The premise for what you are reading is that you don't have to buy or pay for anything in order to get your book written, published, and selling online. You can start right now, with just what you have within reach. And not spend another dime if you don't want to.

I'm not saying this is a perfect book. It's kept nagging at me long enough that I've finally sat down to give it a life of its own.

Sure, you can find all of this on your own. Be my guest. The point is that for a couple of bucks, you can learn from my successes as well as my errors – which should save you a lot more money that it costs.

We are going to cover:

Writing,

Publishing,

Marketing & Sales.

All in simple terms, with plenty of links so you can see for yourself.

Why do I link back to my website – isn't that self-serving?

Of course it is. The distributors want you do to this – you see, they are all jealous of each other. They won't carry your book if it has a lot of affiliate links or links to other bookstores. While you can include a book on Amazon which links to Amazon books, you can only sell that book on Amazon. While means to get the most out of every book you write with the least amount of re-work, you send people to your own (or someone else's) site which can offer books from there. (Or, you can decide to publish only on Amazon, which is what some people do.)

Social sites and communities are the same way. It's great to give