Omigod, I miss a few days and there's, like, a thousand messages to wade through (again).
Going back to this, though, I was asking about where -- in addition to the iBooks Store -- I could also try to sell my book since it seems I managed to get it working fairly okay in ADE, too...
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You can publish your ePub with Barnes & Noble and Kobo. You could also try a direct ePub upload to Smashwords, but Smashwords is a crap shoot if it will be accepted there.
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I have a couple of questions here, one related to selling, and another related to design issues...
I just took a look at the Smashwords site (I'd never heard of them before you mentioned them), and it would seem that if you can get in there then they distribute it to iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and countless other places, too. I already managed to get my account set up with Apple, so I could do that on my own/directly, of course, but how do others go about the business of "selling"?
Like, is the best way to try to go direct and set up separate individual accounts with all these different places, or is it better -- or, at least, easier -- to go through an aggregate like Smashwords and let them handle all the paperwork? I've never been much for accounting, and the last thing I need is to have to start keeping ledgers.
Also, on the design side, in creating this first epub of mine my initial thought was to basically just publish on the iBooks Store -- since at first I was only able to get my design to work correctly in that platform. That's all thankfully changed now, but the way I'd created it was pretty much that it looked best when viewed in two-page landscape mode. Not that one "had" to view it that way, of course, but doing so gave it some nice things -- for example, I have a frontispiece opposite my title page.
I don't know how other ereaders display books -- apart from iBooks, do others have the option for a two-page viewing mode? I guess I'm just wondering about that nicety of my frontispiece (and other "little niceties" that I incorporated), or if I should, say, scrap the frontispiece, etc. for certain platforms and be designing a whole slew of different versions of my book to sell in different places.
ANY thoughts on the above would be most welcome and appreciated!
