Publishing on Amazon Kindle

• How to upload your E-BOOK to Amazon

• Video tutorial on how to PUBLISH on Amazon

• How to upload or change your ebook COVER on Amazon

• How to convert your MANUSCRIPT into a FORMATTED ebook

• Professional Formatting services to create your ebook files
  (links to a list -- not affiliated with SelfPubBookCovers)

Publishing a Paperback with Amazon Createspace (for trade paperback POD/Print On Demand)

You’ll need a full paperback cover that includes the front cover + spine + back cover (on our site, we usually shorten this to say “Back-cover/spine”).
You have two options to do this:

1- Use the hi-res 300dpi cover image from SPBC and upload it to Createspace to make a GENERIC back-cover/spine yourself using CoverCreator, for free.

2- Have your SelfPubBookCovers’ artist do a customized back-cover/spine for you that merges your cover through the spine onto your back cover for a professional looking design, for $149 (keep reading for step-by-step guide).

Either way, you need to format your manuscript for print!

A print cover uses the hi-res 300dpi cover image that you purchased on our site, plus a spine and a back cover. This is important to any cover designer, because the trim-size of the book you choose and the amount of total formatted pages you have -- even the color of paper you choose (cream or white) will affect how thick the spine of your book is. This information determines the dimensions of the spine and gives us the full dimensions of your book. No cover-designer can make you a paperback cover without knowing these dimensions.

Here's how to format your book for print:

• Createspace has free book interior formatting templates where you can copy/paste
  your manuscript into it, chapter by chapter, to easily format it for print.

More help:

• Step-by-Step Guide to Format Book Interior (using MS Word or Open Office)

After your interior book is formatted, get the Cover Template on Createspace (it’s easy!).

Just enter 4 pieces of information to this calculator.

1- The trim-size of your book (standard Trade Paperback is 6”X9”),

2- Number of formatted pages

3- Matte or Glossy cover (SPBC co-founder Shoshanna (Evers) Gabriel prefers matte, but some prefer the way colors come out with glossy)

4- White or Cream paper (standard is cream)

After you have your paperback cover template created (see above):
1. Go to your Dashboard

2. Under your cover, click on "Request a Back Cover and Spine".

3. Fill out the form with:

- The text you want on the back cover,

- Your front cover art (hi-res 300dpi),

- Your Author photo (optional)

- Your Book Cover Template PDF (from the KDP calculator).

DIY Paperback cover

• If you want to use your SelfPubBookCovers cover image (use hi-res 300dpi) and design your own GENERIC back-cover and spine, you can do it for free using KDP CoverCreator.

Ebook distribution outside of Amazon

• • How to publish your ebook on Smashwords (they can distribute to other retailers such as iBooks, Kobo, Nook, etc).
    You would send Smashwords the 300 dpi file.

• Smashwords Style Guide Free Ebook (formatting for Smashwords)

• Publishing via Draft2Digital (also does ebook distribution).

Barnes and Noble Nook

• How to publish your ebook on Barnes & Noble Nook Press (for Nook)

• Nook Press - Marketing Tips for Authors

Marketing and Promoting your Book

• Smashwords Marketing Guide Free Ebook (how to promote your book)

• Twitter 101: How should I get started using Twitter?

• Twitter Basics (lots of helpful links from Twitter.com)

• Create a Facebook Page for your Author Name and/or Book

• A list of review sites that will review self-published books, from TheIndieView.com.

• Here is an article from Kindlepreneur,

• featuring SelfPubBookCovers as a great place to get a premade cover,
  along with other services that may help you with your book cover graphics:
  

  https://kindlepreneur.com/book-cover-software-designers-services