Comments on: Free Publishing – Do You Know The Rules?

By: Rosalie Marsh

Rosalie Marsh — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:32:30 +0000

In reply to Grace Peterson. Try Ingram Spark - set up for Independent Publishers (1-30 books). Print is via Ingram Lightning Source and ePub from Spark to global partners including Amazon. (Amazon however, do require a 12 month gap between distributing to them and with another distributor. I would publish eBook with Smashwords in any case and get the ePub into the Premium catalogue.You would have to opt out of Apple and others which are distributed by Spark. Hope this helps.

By: Grace Peterson

Grace Peterson — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:38:03 +0000

I’m new here. I like your site and will be putting it on my Reader. I am still debating on how to publish my manuscript and need all the resources I can get. Great post.

By: Lorinda J. Taylor

Lorinda J. Taylor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:41:04 +0000

In reply to Kevin McCourt (@broke_writer). I can see you're going to be a useful contact! (I found you on Twitter, also, by the way. I'm @TermiteWriter). I think I will download GIMP and see what can be done with it. In the meantime, I just got an email from Kindle telling me two things: lst, that one CAN use the CreateSpace cover on Kindle (if they say that in their website I don't where it is); and 2nd, that they checked my image and it did meet their guidelines, and that it often appears distorted in the thumbmail version and would appear much better in the final form. So now I have to make up my mind as to what to do. Thanks again.

By: Clifton Hill

Clifton Hill — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:53:48 +0000

Great points. I hate legalese. I’d like to see it banned in most applications. No reason that fine print can’t be short, simple and to the point. Most contracts for similar items touch on the same things. Create some standard fine print, refer people back to a few publicly available forms that all say the same thing to cover their bases and there you go. I think that it should be a law that the longer the fine print is the more likely any action against a consumer will fail. Common sense should rule, and if not, anybody not acting with good common sense gets in trouble (as in: you can’t steal, reverse-write software and resell it, etc.). Simple enough.