Learn How To Get Your Book On CreateSpace

Kindle may be outselling paperbacks but paperbacks are still selling – and can help the sales of your Kindle books.

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

Sales of eBooks have recently overtaken sales of paperback and hardback books combined. However, that doesn’t mean that physical books don’t sell anymore – they do. Amazon sell 105 eBooks for every 100 physical books. That’s still a lot of physical books though!

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

Your eBook sales can increase because the cost of the paperback is generally more, making the eBook look much better value
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.
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 (www.goodreads.com ). 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 short course can save you days and days of fumbling around trying to discover the best ways of formatting your manuscript yourself.

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.

You are welcome to ask questions, I’ll support you all I can.