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Never use your eBook file to create a paperback!
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Thanks for sharing this, and also the many helpful posts I’ve come across
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Welcome, Kalama 😃
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Bottom Line: Buy your own ISBN and publish at Ingram first. I’m in the middle of finishing my Beginner’s Cheat Sheet on how to use InDesign to create your own Print-on-Demand interior (it’s at justcan’thelpwriting.wordpress.com). It really isn’t that hard! If you go the Ingram route, everything I’ve read says you’ll own your own ISBN, be the publisher of record as opposed to Amazon, and have more control over your book. Yes, there’s an upfront cost, but this post from Diane Tibert suggests we can’t count on having CreateSpace as an option for long, and the alternative (KDP paperbacks) is not a good choice, however “free” it might seem.
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Thanks for the information Virginia 😃
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I just left an extensive comment over there on this – she really identified some of the problems I have with the paperback publishing option on Amazon. I felt like a real author getting to make real comments on publishing today!
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You ARE a REAL AUTHOR, and PUBLISHED, Sarah – SO don’t let anyone tell you otherwise 😃
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It just seems like it isn’t real some days – like hey, did I really do that? It’s not a bad thing!
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