I’ve just added a professional services
page at the Amapola
Press website including rates for e-book formatting services to insure
inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog. As an Smashwords author
with a dozen fiction titles (some with images) and three non-fiction titles
with linked tables of content, all in the Premium Catalog, I think I’ve proven
myself quite adept at e-book formatting for Smashwords Editions.
Apparently, some authors find e-book
formatting nightmarish. Personally, I think most writers complicate matters because
they insist on formatting documents in ways they can read on their computers
and some are still thinking about the way print books look and try to emulate
that. This doesn’t work…
I have seen the endless threads on
Kindleboards with new authors who after numerous attempts still have autovetter
errors and simply cannot get into the Premium Catalog. I understand their
frustration and I can alleviate it.
Of course, inclusion in the Smashwords Premium
Catalog allows distribution to Apple (distribution to
iBookstores in 32
countries), Barnes
& Noble, Sony, Kobo, WH Smith in the UK and FNAC (both powered by Kobo), the Diesel
eBook Store, eBooks
Eros (operated by Diesel), Baker &
Taylor (Blio and the
Axis360 library service), Page Foundry (operates retail sites Inktera.com and Versent.com; and Android e-book store apps for Cricket Wireless and Asus).
Rates start at $35, with additional charges for linked TOCs/footnotes/endnotes and
images.
A deposit, payable by PayPal, can be made
at the Amapola Press website after project acceptance and delivery generally
takes less than four days.
Indie authors may contact us through the Amapola Press website with details (contact
form in Home Page). E-book manuscripts can be accepted in PDF, Word and Open
Office documents – which may be uploaded to Google documents or instruction
will be sent to e-mail. Final formatted e-books will then be returned by e-mail
so indie authors can upload their files.
If the project requires more than one
attempted submission, no additional charges will be incurred. Charges are for
formatting only, and the goal is inclusion to the Premium Catalog. I guarantee
it.
Be warned: If your book is filled with gross typographic errors, Smashwords will not accept into
the Premium Catalog, even if the formatting is perfect. E-book formatting service does not include editing,
copy editing or proofreading.
I had not intended on doing this
long-term, but it looks like it’s beyond a hobby now and I have immersed myself
deeply into this “experiment”. So this is me embracing it fully.
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