Books to be written
Books to be written
A dyslexic author's guide to writing and publishing books with digital tools
About the Book
What I have learned about writing books, working with publishers and self-publishing, using LeanPub.com and getting sales through Amazon
About the Author
Table of Contents
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- Work in Progress - April 2022
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Preface
- Why write a book?
- So who is this book for?
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I A brave new world
- 1. What is a book?
- 2. Why write a book?
- 3. Giving my knowledge away?
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4. Its digital now
- The bookshop
- Amazon
- Electronic
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5. Publishers
- Change
- Services
- Credibility
- Royalties and advances
- Why?
- Remember this
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6. Digital publishing: selling before you have finished
- Traditional publishing
- Digital publishing
- When to stop?
- Batch processing
- Publisher cost cutting
- Print on demand
- Power to small publishers
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7. Copyright
- Give it away
- Sell it
- Keep it in print
- Bringing back copyright
- 8. Money from writing
- 9. The Little Book story
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II Writing
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10. When you know what you want to say
- Talk then write
- Introductory chapter
- Editing
- Less is more, hit delete
- Authors learn most
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11. Learning to write
- Writing for journals
- Blogging
- Presentations
- 12. Writers conferences
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13. Some writing techniques
- Plan and organizing
- A question
- Fieldstone
- Free writing
- Dairy/journal
- Carving out of stone
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14. Incremental and iterative writing and publishing
- Upside
- Downside
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15. The process
- Start writing
- Book skeleton & structure
- Create a book
- Write, edit
- Publish and start telling people
- Continue
- When will you be done?
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16. Feedback
- Co-authors
- Academics and blind review
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17. Knowing you are done
- How many words?
- My formula
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18. Using quotes
- Sourcing quotes
- Balance
- Editors
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19. Beginning: introductions & forwards
- Many beginnings
- Introductions
- Prefaces and prologues
- Forwards
- The end, eplogue
- Acknowledgements
- 20. The #NoProjects story
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10. When you know what you want to say
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III Production
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21. After the writing
- Batch activities
- Copyright
- Blurb
- Index
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22. Copy edit
- Copyedit pictures
- Copy editing for dyslexics
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23. Third party copyright
- Fair use
- Ask
- Copyright on images
- Licenses and sites
- Images in books
- Keeping track of licenses
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24. Illustrations
- Image layout
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25. Layout and page size
- The guts of the problem
- Page sizes
- Navigating page sizes
- Changing LeanPub layout
- Publishers problems
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26. Book cover
- First cover
- Graphic artist
- Many covers
- The spine
- Sequence
- Other uses
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27. File sizes and download costs
- Do the math(s)
- Image sizes
- Cover
- Don’t forget print
- Image formats
- Black-and-white
- Other formats
- Finally
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28. ISBN
- How to get an ISBN
- ISBN bar code
- Registering ISBN
- Finally
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29. Audio book
- Why do an audio book?
- How to create an audio book
- Making an audio book
- Audible ACX
- Recording
- Pricing
- Royalties
- Timing
- Caveat
- Other audio services
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21. After the writing
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IV Publication
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30. Amazon
- Amazon account
- Uploading
- KDP Pre-release
- Royalty rates
- Amazon v. LeanPub
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31. Printing
- Samples
- Amazon CreateSpace
- Lulu
- IngramSpark
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32. Pricing
- Back to objectives
- Price elasticity
- Ten, $10, €10, £10
- Price and credibility
- Revenue v. costs
- International pricing
- Fairness
- More pricing
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33. Print pricing
- Hard back books
- Print costs
- Distribution services
- Distribution costs
- Price comparisons
- Amazon is changing
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34. Playing with price
- Price discovery
- Publisher pricing
- Pricing over time
- Looking more generous
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35. KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited
- Select downside
- Leaving KDP
- 36. Digital right management
- 37. Legal deposit
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38. Academic publishing
- Mass market
- Students
- Peers
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30. Amazon
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V Marketing
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39. Amazon
- It’s a search engine
- The Amazon feedback loop
- Paid twice
- How do I know?
- Do I like it?
- Summary
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40. Reviews
- Print books
- Wait for reviews
- Your first reviewers
- Asking nicely
- Asking loudly
- Follow up
- Incentivising reviewers
- Other authors
- Amazon only
- International Amazons
- Product groups
- Five star first
- Publishers and reviews
- More
- Putting it all together
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41. Promotions, sales, discounts and free books
- Sales
- Discount coupons
- Free book give aways
- Why give away your book?
- Publishers again
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42. More Amazon, money and tax
- Amazon Associates
- Author Central
- Amazon adverts
- Taxes
- US withholding Tax
- VAT
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39. Amazon
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VI Appendix: Tools
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43. Word processors
- Word processes and style
- Word and friends
- Plain text, Markdown and Markua
- Other text editors
- More
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44. Formatting Tools: Pandoc and LaTeX
- Pandoc
- LaTeX
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45. Citations, references and bibliography
- Software to the rescue
- Endnote
- Zotero
- Pandoc
- My solution
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46. Quick guide to Markdown
- Heading 2
- Bold, italics and indent
- Bullets and numbers
- Enough
- Thank you
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43. Word processors
- Notes
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