Logical Expressions Blog

In previous Adventures with Smashwords, I wrote about Signing Up as a Small Publisher and Publishing an E-Book. But getting your book successfully uploaded to Smashwords is not the end of the story. To get maximum distribution for your title and thereby maximize your profit potential, you want to make sure to distribute your title through the Smashwords Premium Catalog. Once your title is accepted into the Premium Catalog, Smashwords begins distributing it to their retail partners. The partner list currently includes Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and Apple. Amazon is "coming soon." You do earn a lot less on titles...

In the last episode of Adventures with Smashwords, I created a publisher account at Smashwords.com for our publishing company Logical Expressions. Since then, I've been preparing the first e-book we are publishing through Smashwords: Susan Daffron's Funds to the Rescue. Don't worry, I won't give a blow-by-blow on what I went through to get good looking e-book output; suffice it to say that it took 10-12 hours of formatting work in Word and 5 revisions. However, I feel confident that the next book will go much faster, given what I learned this time, which is what I'll share with you...

My wife and I self-publish our books through our company Logical Expressions. We've published 10 books so far using our Publishize method to sell books print-on-demand through our own online store and other online retailers like Amazon.com. We recently decided it was time to get our books out into the market in digital form. Susie and I are both rather technical, so the idea of creating e-books was not particularly daunting. We selected one book (Susan's Funds to the Rescue), and started working on it with the ultimate goal of creating a Kindle version. Here was the original plan when we started: ...