Editor’s note: I considered writing the title as F*gs – but that’s not the title.

Hi, thank you for the information on this site. I have made a book trailer and used shutterstock film footage and royaltyfreeTV.com music. A total price of £69. Then I downloaded a free trail version of Final Cut Pro X, and two weeks later after a lot of patience using You Tube tutorials on how [...]

It’s unfortunate that the book dissolved into punctuation, spelling, etc. errors three-fourths of the way through. I hope the author realizes he can fix them up and resubmit to Amazon. I would hate to see a quality book die because of these issues.

Well, an update here: The 99 cent experiment on “The Shenandoah Spy” is over and was not successful. My goal really was 100,000 copies, in the spirit of what Darcie Chan was able to do with her first novel “The Mill River Recluse” (which is a pretty good book, IMO). She’s sold over 400,000 copies [...]

I’m going to price my book at $0.99. Why wouldn’t I? My words are not worth anything, unless I have readers. I could care less than to think of ego from my writing.

I can’t add anything to this discussion, but I do want the contributors to it to know how much I appreciate their sharing their knowledge of these matters with someone who very much needs it.

Tarah: Thanks for your comment. I feel that a self-pub ebook author that does not have the expertise to tackle the formatting part of the ebook creation should seek help from a professional. Standards or not it can be daunting task. I have talked to authors that just want to write but they find out [...]

There’s nothing written in stone that requires a self-published author to format a book for seven–or any–publishing platforms. Of the fifty titles my publishing company currently offers, around thirty are my own books, the rest are by friends or friends of friends, all of whom feel better off writing books rather than doing all the [...]

I just went through the (arduous at times…) process of getting my self published book across the ebook platforms as well. I got the impression instantly that no regular Joe (or I should say no self published author that I know) would have an easy time getting their book even formatted correctly for the various [...]

Eric: I totally agree with your comment. You almost have to write and format to the Amazon standard because that is where the most action is and hope the other versions/platforms stick to the wall someway. When I converted and self-published my ebook, Call Off the Dogs, I ended with three different versions of the [...]

The biggest roadblock to James’s proposal is the huge gap between the capabilities of the various ebook readers. The utter lack of an industry standard–and the fact that no one appears to be working toward even the mere concept of an industry standard–leaves the ebook publisher with a choice between standardizing ebooks on a least-common-denominator [...]

As an indie writer, I’ll say that I have yet to use a professional editor’s services because I can’t afford it. However, I am well aware of the stigmata associated with self-published works and I do my damn best to make my books look fantastic. However, despite my opinion, you always need somebody else’s too, [...]

That was amusing. Nice scream.

I have to laugh at myself, you caught me in my many forms. Right now I’m screaming at the screen and blogging. How did you know? At least I’m in good company. We are not alone.