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Business Media CreateSpace

Get Your Book Into Print - Professional Formatting Course

The Kindle goldrush is over. Get ahead of the pack by making your book available on Amazon in print.
Highest Rated
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (59 ratings)
1,000 students
Created by Michelle Campbell-Scott
Last updated 10/2016
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • To increase your royalties by earning through print sales and increasing your Kindle sales due to the cost comparison with your print book
  • In this course you will learn how to format your manuscript to CreateSpace's standards
  • You will learn additional formatting tips that will make your finished book look very professional
  • You will learn how to format your book's cover to CreateSpace's standards
  • If you have your books formatted by other people, this course will enable you to check them and make alterations without messing up the formatting, line spacing, table of contents, etc.
  • At the end of the course you will be able to produce a beautifully formatted, professional-looking book that can be live on Amazon (and linked to your Kindle version if you have one) within a week.
  • Having your book in paperback can mean increased royalties - both from the paperback itself, and from increased Kindle sales as the Kindle version will be cheaper than the paperback and seem like a bargain!

Requirements

  • A computer running Microsoft Word or equivalent
  • Internet access
  • A Windows computer

Description

LATEST: Guarantee - if you struggle to format your book, I will do it for you and show you how I did it. For less than the price of paying a professional formatter to do one book for you, you can join this course and learn how to format all your books.


Join over 600 authors on this course. Learn quickly, get your books in print, and your royalties could be double NEXT MONTH.

I am available for advice and support every step of the way. If you get stuck, holler!


Double your royalties - really?

I did. Well, actually, I more than doubled them. My print sales have overtaken my digital sales on some books. I was shocked - until I published this course and students reported that they were making more money - either by the presence of their print book stimulating sales of their Kindle book (because the print book looks inexpensive in comparison), or by great print sales.

You too can make more money from your Kindle books by getting them into print via CreateSpace. A print book can increase your royalties both by making sales itself and by increasing your Kindle sales due to the cost comparison.

Sales of eBooks have overtaken sales of paperback and hardback books combined. However, that doesn't mean that physical books don't sell anymore - they do. Amazon sell 118 eBooks for every 100 physical books. That's still a lot of physical books being sold! It depends on your genre, but many authors report that their print sales actually overtake their digital sales in December and August - holiday periods. We all seem to prefer real books on the beach and for use as gifts!

There's a lot less competition in the physical book arena as most of the Internet Marketers stick to Kindle books. Kindle eBooks are quick and easy to publish - formatting for paperback takes a bit more time. It's well worth it, though.

Having a paperback version of your eBook can help increase your royalties for a number of reasons.

  • More Kindle sales - Your eBook sales can increase because the cost of the paperback is generally more, making the eBook look much better value
  • A new source of royalties - You may find that you make a good number of paperback sales. People still like physical books. They are much better for reading in the bath! I recently had an illness that prevented me from looking at a screen (it hurt). It made me put away my Kindle for the first time in months and dig out a load of paperbacks. There are lots of people who prefer physical books, for various reasons.
  • Increased credibility - Fewer Indie authors take the plunge into print so you will be part of a more select group. That raises your credibility and could lead to more opportunities, such as guest blogging, interviews on podcasts, etc.
  • You need a physical book to schedule a Goodreads Giveaway. If you haven't heard of Goodreads, you might want to check it out, it's where passionate readers hang out. Giveaways are mini competitions that members enter to try to win free books. Even if you can only afford to buy one paperback version of your book, you can schedule a Giveaway and offer that. The beauty of them is that they attract an average of 825 entries each. That's 825 people seeing your book who may not otherwise have come across it - and all their Goodreads friends (and possibly their Facebook) will see it in their update feeds. That's how viral popularity starts. It worked for E.L. James with '50 Shades of Grey'; it worked for Ally Condie with 'Matched'; it could work for you too.

However, many authors confess to finding the formatting of their manuscript to CreateSpace's standards to be difficult. Who has the time to spend hours learning, fiddling, tweaking, proofing, and submitting?

This course can save you days and days of fumbling around trying to discover the best ways of formatting your manuscript yourself. It will enable you – once you have completed the course – to get a book into CreateSpace-ready format in around an hour. If you struggle at any point, I will do it for you and show you exactly what I did to get it right.

The course is packed with information, practical steps and activities, as well as tons of bonuses, such as PDF downloads and checklists to guide you along the way. It won't take you more than an hour or two to complete and the benefits will be with you forever. You can pick and mix to just study the bits you need, if you already know how to do the formatting but want to learn how to produce books that are professional enough to stand side-by-side with traditionally-published books.

The course has a full guarantee and will be accessible whenever you need to check back, in case you forget something. I will also keep it up-to-date and add new resources as time goes on.

You are welcome to ask questions, I'll support you all I can. You can find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter if I don't respond quickly enough on Udemy! (They don't always send out announcements about new questions.)

NOTE: This course is currently mostly suitable for Windows users (due to the demise of my Mac!).

Who this course is for:

  • Authors
  • Udemy instructors who want to turn their course into a book
  • Writers
  • Anyone who wants to publish a book
  • Kindle authors
  • Kobo authors

Course content

13 sections • 57 lectures • 5h 21m total length

  • Preview09:52
  • Preview07:12
  • Preview06:39

  • Signing up with CreateSpace and navigating the site
    04:01
  • Preview07:29

  • Introduction to formatting - Anatomy of a CreateSpace template
    02:01
  • Preview00:38
  • Preview02:08
  • Setting The Margins
    01:32
  • Setting The Page Size
    00:43
  • Altering The Section & Header/Footer Setup
    02:23
  • More on page numbers, headers & footers
    12:40
  • ACTION STEP: Make your own template
    02:01
  • Preview01:25
  • A Neat Trick To Make Your Book Look Professionally-Published
    03:00
  • Serif or Sans Serif?
    16:27
  • About Hyphenation
    01:07
  • Font Sizes
    04:05
  • Where To Find Fonts
    02:15
  • Line Spacing
    08:36
  • Making It Beautiful - Drop Caps
    03:41
  • Making It Beautiful - Glyphs
    04:26
  • Sourcing Images
    14:00
  • About Image Quality - Those Dreaded 300dpis!
    05:10

  • Preview01:08
  • Uploading A Print-Ready PDF Cover
    12:04
  • Using The CreateSpace Cover Creator
    04:52
  • Using CreateSpace's Cover Design Team
    01:59
  • Finding A Designer
    06:49
  • Calculate Book Jacket Dimensions
    00:29

  • Uploading
    04:48
  • The Interior Reviewer
    06:49

  • Reviewing
    05:12

  • Preview02:17
  • How to create multiple TOCs in one document
    06:37

  • FAQ - Royalties and Taxes
    08:19
  • FAQ - Ordering Copies
    01:13
  • FAQ - More on headers, footers & page numbering
    01:16
  • Question about how to layout blank pages in a specialist book
    05:56

  • Interview with Phil Ebiner, creator of 'Design Your Own eBook Cover' course
    13:40

  • Getting Your Book Into Bookstores
    15:32
  • Preview12:53
  • Template - Historical Novel
    00:19
  • Template - In The Style Of A Popular Technical Manual
    00:19
  • *NEW* Template - In The Style Of A Non-Fiction Book 1
    00:30
  • *NEW* Template - In The Style Of A Non-Fiction Book 2 (A 4-Hour Book!)
    00:56
  • Formatting A Novel - Part I
    09:32
  • Formatting A Novel - Part II
    17:22

Instructor

Michelle Campbell-Scott
Bestselling author & premium instructor on Udemy
Michelle Campbell-Scott
  • 4.1 Instructor Rating
  • 263 Reviews
  • 10,986 Students
  • 3 Courses

Author of the bestselling books, 'Goodreads for Authors', 'Make Your Book Work Harder' (perma-free on Kindle), 'Inversion Therapy', & 'The 10-Day Skin Brushing Detox', among others. She is a former teacher & trainer, chicken keeper, and field archer who has recently returned to the UK from a 2-year roadtrip around North America.

She started her career in Public Relations then, while her children were growing, she did any work she could get that allowed her to be at home with them. That included: writing, course creation, editing, book indexing, book formatting, document and presentation production, and more. 

After becoming a teacher and then an IT trainer, she still freelanced, writing and creating courses for others - before eventually taking the plunge and creating her own books and courses. 

She writes as Michelle Campbell-Scott, specializing in publishing and marketing; Mia Campbell, specializing in health (including 'Inversion Therapy' & 'The 10-Day Skin Brushing Detox'), and M.C. Scott, specializing in hobbies and children's fiction. 

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