John,<div><br></div><div>I may do a blog post on that subject if I can remember my login. It's pretty simple though. You use OBJAVI 2 to create your PDF in the size you want, using your style sheet. The size we call Crown Quarto is one of the choices, but they call it something else. The size they push is the 6" x 9" format, which OBJAVI calls USTRADE. So you submit this PDF. On books with 300 or more pages you might need to use a larger "gutter" than OBJAVI will give you by default, so you can put 10 in the "gutter" option to make the gutter 10mm wider. I only needed to do this for a USTRADE book I did. My Crown Quarto titles were fine with the default.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now if this PDF has illustrations CS will complain that they are under 300 DPI. If the pictures are diagrams, screen grabs, or photos of objects it might be safe to ignore these warnings. If there are photos of people you might have a problem. The only way to know is to get a proof copy and see. A proof copy might cost 4.50 US plus shipping, which might be another $5 or more if you're in a hurry.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it turns out you need 300 DPI pictures you'll need to use Open Office and one of CS's template files to make your book instead of Booki. I discovered when I used copy and paste to get my Booki pages into the template that all my italics disappeared and had to be put back by hand. This seems to be an Open Office issue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For your cover design you can submit a PDF (Inkscape has a wizard for creating a wraparound cover with the correct dimensions) but the way I did it was to use the cover wizard CS provides.</div><div><br>
</div><div>The cover wizard is an AJAX app that walks you through making a cover. There are many cover designs to choose from, all named after trees. The one I chose is called The Palms, and it prompts you for a front cover image and a back cover image and lets you specify what you want printed on the spine and what colors to use. It will tell you the dimension of the image, which MUST be 300 DPI or more. So I used The GIMP to make my front and back cover images. I used a free font from FontSquirrel called ChunkFive for the title. There are some good articles on designing covers, etc. on the CS website. They suggested using a Display font for the title, because these are designed to be rendered in large sizes and the fonts you already have are not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Designing your own book cover with The GIMP can be fun, but if you like you can pay to have it designed by a professional. You can pay to have the inside pages formatted too.</div><div><br></div><div>
By all means get some color on the cover, because it is much too expensive to have color on the inside pages. Books are priced by the page count. It is the same price no matter what page size you use. They push 6x9 because that is an easy size to distribute, but you can use larger pages and save money. Color pages cost four times as much as B/W pages because each page has to be printed four times with different colored inks. If you have one interior page that needs color the whole book needs to be printed that way. So color pages only make sense for children's books where every page has a color picture or some decoration. There is no extra charge for a color cover, though, so get a nice photo on there if you can.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can do B/W on cream colored pages instead of white pages. I don't know what that costs.</div><div><br></div><div>When you set up the book you can get a free ISBN number, use one you already have, or pay to get one using your own imprint. What I think this means is that if you think there is some kind of stigma to having your book published by Create Space you can pay for an ISBN and list the publisher as a different name.</div>
<div><br></div><div>CS will calculate what your book costs to print and give you a minimum price. You can charge whatever you like above that. Your royalties will depend on where you publish the book. CS will give you a "Store" page on their own site for selling the book, and you will get MUCH higher royalties selling it there than you do on Amazon. Of course actually getting people to see that page is your problem. CS will also submit your book to be listed on Amazon.com in the U.S. only. To get it listed elsewhere you can pay a one time charge of $25 to get the book listed in catalogs used by bookstores. Without this listing you have no hope of selling your book on other sites or bookstores. With it you have no guarantee. It takes awhile to get listed from what I've heard. I have not bothered to do this for my books. I might do it for *one* book as an experiment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, John Curwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marketing@lovinglearning.co.nz">marketing@lovinglearning.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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After reading your post yesterday, I just had to go onto Amazon and
check it out. It was very cool when my search listed it (and the
ebook) in the search results. What was the process like to the the
books into print form on Create Space?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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John<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 04/03/12 03:29, James Simmons wrote:
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">E-Book
Enlightenment: Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child
[Paperback] is now on Amazon.com, again only the U.S. site.
Outside the U.S. you should be able to order directly from
Create Space.<br>
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Eventually Amazon will have <i>Search Inside The Book</i>
working for this title and you'll be able to appreciate all the
great artwork done by Oceana Rain Fields. This art did not
survive translation to Kindle format. It looked terrible there,
so I had to remove it. Even in B/W it really adds something to
this printed edition.<br>
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If the idea of having a really attractive printed book that
explains everything about e-books, including how to make them,
seems odd to you then you really should read the book!</span>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">The URL
is:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/E-Book-Enlightenment-Reading-Leading-Laptop/dp/1470123223/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330784346&sr=1-14" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/E-Book-Enlightenment-Reading-Leading-Laptop/dp/1470123223/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330784346&sr=1-14</a></span></div>
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