Someone has asked me to write a book for them. It's a businessy type venture and I imagine it's something they will sell through their own website.
Sooooo...
Has anyone here written an e-book or self published on the web?
Please could you suggest good places for me to have a look at.
Also, how did you format the work? Did you have it proofread and typeset?
Many thanks for any replies
AA
Do I take it that neither has experience of self-publishing, you've just been employed because you know about writing?
Seems a one-sided partnership to me...
Exactly. Not sure why that should be a problem though. I'm being employed as a writer and am asking some other writers for help, or advice or maybe just the start of a paper trail.
Thanks for your useful input though Tim.
You're the writer - you do the writing.
Let them worry about the formatting.
There are various levels of proof-reading available, ranging from spellcheck to giving someone a few hundred quid to edit your book.
Typing the right words into Google should give you plenty to choose from.
Self e-publishing is a different ball game.
Again, countless peope offering services and tons of blogs, forums and boards dealing with it - and as many ways to go as there are books, it would seem.
Again these range from the DIY to bespoke services that prepare your books for Kindle etc etc.
A few people have self-published here - not sure about e-books, though.
Let Google be your guide.
e-publishing? What's the prob? You write something.. convert whatever text format into an HTML page, and bung it up on the web..
However, if it's a "real" book, it's a bit more complex. I did it myself in 2002, and most printers then required either a rolling Quark file or Postscript files for the text. Quark is excellent software for book writing and preparation for print btw.. but I may be now out of date. "How to publish yourself" by Peter Finch was also an invaluable aid. The more you can do yourself, the more money you'll save, and you won't have to pay those AppleMac types reams of money for a few minutes work converting files, resizing cover images etc.
They are probably selling an ebook which would mean a PDF file.
When I purchase ebooks on elance I would expect no need to use a proof reader.
In an ideal world I would also want it formated and typeset - but would supply what I wanted.
"Please could you good places for me to have a look at."
!!!
Cheers Bushbaby.
Hey rigid, do you want to proofread it?
I used to sell ebooks (on internet marketing, search engine optimisation, etc) via my own website. They were simply PDF files.
To sell somewhere like Kindle, I assume you'd need to convert it to whatever Kindle accepts as a file format.
I'll proofread it for the right fee!
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ July 6 2011, 12:20 PM BSTI used to sell ebooks (on internet marketing, search engine optimisation, etc) via my own website. They were simply PDF files.
To sell somewhere like Kindle, I assume you'd need to convert it to whatever Kindle accepts as a file format.
Yes Kindle have shorter page lengths.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
There's something called Smashwords as well that instructs you as to formatting etc
Quote: Austin Allegro @ July 6 2011, 11:23 AM BSTCheers Bushbaby.
Hey rigid, do you want to proofread it?
I'd be happy to - if only I had the time. Good luck anyway - hope all goes well. 
Try www.lulu.com
Never published myself but I know a couple of people who have used that and it seemed OK.
cheers finky! That's the site I was trying to remember.
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