ebook headache
So I thought I would use something like Lulu or blurb to to a monitised version of the The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry rather than having to set up my own webpage and once again face the termoil of trying to get a paypal button and what have you, working on my site. However this is proving a bit trixy.
Lulu was out as they are going only for the ereaders like the Nook which are not brilliant for picture book styles and I would basically have to make the book from skratch again within their upload stuff which would not be pleasant. I had already realised from looking at my husbands kindle that I would have to do another version at some point – one that is basically just the poems with maybe a small line drawing motif. Designed to be easy to read and enjoy in monochrome.
Blurb on the other hand has a great option for picture book ebooks which is great and though I have the PDF in the right format I need to make two new ones with the cover and body of the book separate – fair enough that wouldn’t take very long but then the upload instructions do not cover the software we are using.
So I’ve had to email them and now await a reply, earliest I should think would be Monday :/
I can’t sell it in my etsy shop as it would count as mass produced and is not a tutorial so can’t go in as a resource. ebay isn’t really right for it though maybe next year some sort term auctions might work. I may look it that a bit more. I have a half built e-shop which I may have to finish off which is a pain :/
One of the reasons I wanted to go with Lulu or Blurb was that they already have market places for books out there. I will investigate some others but am starting to want to get back to that writing and illustrating business to be honest :/
Also what ever I do for Spoogy I’ve got to do for Festive this month so it is a double whammy.
Posted: Sunday, November 4th, 2012 @ 10:30 pm
Categories: Publishing, Uncategorized.
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