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The Ease of Publishing an Ebook

Posted by Soulskill on from the decreasing-the-tree-bodycount dept.

ISoldat53 writes "This article describes how easy it is to publish an ebook. The author details the costs to the writer for a major publishing house to publish a book and the savings to the writer by self-publishing. He looks to make the same profit selling the book at $2.99 on Amazon as he would going though a traditional publishing process. The book is formatted only for the Kindle right now, but the author explains how it can be converted for other readers, since there's no DRM."

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  1. Quality control by hey · · Score: 2, Funny

    is something that publishes add too.

    1. Re:Quality control by PatPending · · Score: 3, Funny
      is something that publishes add too.

      +1 for unintended irony.

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      What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
  2. Re:How long does copyright last? by ArundelCastle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I notice he talks about controlling the book forever, so he would also like a copyright term of infinity?

    Is his book about cryogenic freezing?
    It's logical that the first person to live well beyond a normal copyright term would also want to write a book about doing it.
    Just sayin'.