eBook Publishing: Do's & Don'ts for Beginners
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This book can save a beginning author many many hours by cutting through all the obstacles that first-timers face - and Gene Grossman knows them all.
He has over 30 eBooks in distribution and is the creator of the popular 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries.
Gene Grossman
GENE GROSSMAN was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the North side neighborhood of Albany Park, where he attended Hibbard Elementary and Von Steuben High School.He pursued majors in psychology, chemistry and mathematics at Wright Junior College, Roosevelt University and Illinois Institute of Technology - all the while working his way through high school and college by playing piano in clubs on Chicago's then-famous "Rush Street."After moving to Southern California, he worked his way through law school playing piano in night clubs and appeared as a musician in seven major motion pictures.While slowly building his law practice, Gene purchased a truckload of movie equipment he rented out to film production companies and then started his own production company which over the years produced more than 50 educational programs on subjects ranting from Boating and Celestial Navigation, to legal subjects (Depositions, Bankruptcy, etc.) Sign Language Instruction and many more.Always having been interested in boating, getting divorced prompted him to buy and move onto a 45-foot Chris Craft motor yacht in Marina del Rey California,.Years later, while serving as navigator on a yacht delivery from the U.S. to Tortola, Gene wrote his first book, "Celestial Navigation for Dummies" (before the popular series of 'Dummies' books was created). He used his own production equipment to shoot a video on the subject Celestial Navigation - "Sextant Use and the Sun Noon Shot" and unintentionally started the nautical video industry in this country.Over the next few years he followed that first title up with more than 50 other educational DVD titles, all displayed on his production company's website at www.MagicLampDVDs.com.Having moved on from doing scripts for his video productions, Gene turned to writing fiction, and now spends most of his time in the marina on his new boat, where he created the 15-book series of 'Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries,' all now available both in print and as eBooks at Smashwords via www.LegalMystery.comIn addition to the 15 Peter Sharp novels, Gene compiled a group of fiction and non-fiction titles that he has either written or edited for others, plus some classic stories: the publishing company he formed (www.MagicLampPress.com) now has more than 60 books in print.The Peter Sharp Legal Mystery Series#1: Single Jeopardy#2: ...By Reason of Sanity#3: A Class Action#4: Conspiracy of Innocence#5: ...Until Proven Innocent#6: The Common Law#7: The Magician's Legacy#8: The Reluctant Jurist#9: The Final Case#10: An Element of Peril#11: A Good Alibi#12: Legally Dead#13: How to Rob a Bank#14: Murder Under Way#15: The Sherlock Holmes CaperThe Suzi B. Mystery Series (a spin-off)#1: ...Sorry, Wrong Number#2: Movie Magic#3: Two Perfect Crimes#4: He's the Guy#5: The Magic BulletsAll 20 of Gene's mysteries are described in detail in a free eBook: The Mystery Books of Gene Grossman: Summaries with the Author's Comments.
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eBook Publishing - Gene Grossman
eBook Publishing:
Do’s & Don’ts for Beginners
By Gene Grossman,
author of the popular 15-book set of
Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries
Smashwords edition 1.0 – April, 2010
©MMX Gene Grossman
All rights reserved
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Original Formatting
To Tell the Truth
The Proof’s in the Pudding
Cover Art
Hold the Presses!
Show me the Money!
(Don’t aggregate yourself)
Conclusions
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INTRODUCTION
[Opens with the longest sentence in the book]
Here is some very important information that you should read, understand, and then completely forget about, because it is knowledge you will never have to use anywhere but in conversation with other authors and publishers who also have no need to use it, other than to try and impress people who are not in the publishing business.
There are seven popular formats used to publish ebooks; they are:
Epub
This is the most important format. An open industry format, supported by the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, most mobile apps [Stanza, Aldiko, Shortcovers], and many other reading systems including the new iPad from Apple.
Sony Reader (LRF)
LRF is the format used on Sony Reader ebook devices
Kindle (.mobi)
Mobipocket is an eBook format supported on Windows PCs and many handheld devices. Important if you want your book easily importable into Amazon's Kindle reading device.
Palm Doc (PDB)
PalmDoc is a format primarily used on Palm Pilot devices, but readers are available for PalmOS, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC/Smartphone, desktop Windows, and Macintosh.
Portable Document Format, or pdf, is a file format readable by most devices, including handheld e-readers, PDAs, and computers. A good format if your work contains fancy formatting, charts or images.
RTF
Rich Text Format, or RTF, is a cross-platform document format supported by many word processors and devices. RTF is pretty good at preserving original formatting from Word documents.
Plain Text
Plain text is the most widely supported file format, working on nearly all readers and devices. It lacks formatting, but will work anywhere. For best results with plain text, your source document should not contain fancy formatting or images.
I drive a car. You drive a car. Everyone drives a car – but how many drivers know the four stages of a combustion engine [intake, combustion, ignition, exhaust]?
Now that you know those four stages, you have some additional information to forget about.
The reason I bring up this useless information is because while it may be nice to know it if you ever run into Cliff Clavin at Cheers in