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eBooks
Print on Demand
Self Publishing

Lulu, iTunes, Kindle, Nook, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Beyond

How I publish my Short Walk Books

Print on Demand: The new Publishing Paradigm.
Print on Demand Bookmaking Workshop

Preparing the Content

1. Research to create a narrative & identify associated images Author(s) need to be aware of Intellectual Property Rights.
   More at:Trove
   Survey of Online Heritage and History Resources
   Copyright is a legal right that gives copyright owners the right to control certain activities with their works...http://www.nla.gov.au/about-copyright
2. Seek Permission to use, perform, adapt or copy when using someone else's IP eg an image.
3. Privacy/Confidentiality when doing research (particularly on living people or those who have living relatives).
4. Who is your Market/Reader - what are you trying to communicate? Guided Walk, Give Draft to people to read/comment on
5. Acknowledgments - sponsors, contributers, images....
6. Legal Deposit is a requirement under the Copyright Act 1968 for publishers and self publishing authors...http://www.nla.gov.au/legal-deposit

Making the Book

1. E-Book Formatting: Encoding - compatibility with different readers
2. Printed Layout/Physical Form for Printed
3. Printed version: Limited/Collectors Edition (pre-purchase), Hardback, Color/Black&White, Paparback, Size
4. E-Book: Interactive/external links/accessibility for blind people (EPUB) or PDF

• Limited Edition: Special Binding and Paper (maybe 10 copies)
• Print on Demand: buy copies as required (few remainders)
• E-Book:(interactive (search, jump to) if set up properly. More about the technical side Formatting e-books and Paperbacks

Print on Demand (as you need them) Paperback

• Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/marghanita

Art Book: Hand Bound, Special Paper, hand caligraphy

• NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders (http://nswbookbinders.org.au/)

Distribution

• Sell Online - through online bookstores or lulu or other website
• Bookshops may not deal with self publishers - need to work with a publisher?
• Budget/Business Model/Cost Recovery/Price - give away, print on demand, e-book
• E-books (need appropriate reader Nook, Kindle, Apple, Google/Samsung):

Online Sale of E-books and Paperbacks

• http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/marghanita
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/marghanita-da-cruz/id453143388?mt=11
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/marghanita-da-cruz
• Google Books

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