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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
It is a HUGE amount of work to do a print copy in addition to an ebook so I can completely understand why authors don't bother. If you don't want to figure out the formatting (which is not a piece of cake)
There's a lot of other time consuming tasks to it--the cover is a lot of work. You have to do a front and back and spine and that is either going to take time or cost. And that cost can run anywhere from 100 on up if you don't know how to do it yourself.
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is work, but not really that hard once you get used to it. Everything about self-publishing is hard work and a steep learning curve. It's totally worth it though.
I currently have my 8 novels plus a couple of others in print. But I have to format differently for Smashwords and Amazon, so I just take care of all of them at once. It takes about 2 hours to format the novels for print now with custom chapter headers and other steps to make it pretty. It's kinda fun now and I get a heck of a sense of accomplishment.
As far as the covers go, I make my own. When I made my first book, the cover was 500x700 and not very good quality. Now, when I make the covers, I
start with the 6x9 print cover. When I'm done with that, I just cut the front off to make the ebook cover, which is 1850x2750. So it's a better quality in all aspects.
Back to the original topic, I just haven't decided whether or not to give away the ecopy with the print book. I'm probably going to do it. I've spent the last couple of days considering it. It makes sense to do so and will result in positive feelings from my fans.
I just don't want to promote the print books I suppose. I don't make much off of them and they're expensive. It doesn't make sense to buy print anymore in my opinion. But the more I consider, the more it makes sense to give away the ebook with the print book. It will act as a hook to get the readers to buy ebooks in the future.
So many decisions to make.
