Publishing Made Simpler

A few months ago, Imade some changes to one of John’s books, and then I tried to republish it.Unfortunately, I made some errors in the formatting as I got ready to republishit, and when I sent the new manuscript to smashwords’ publishing software,those formatting errors were obvious. So I listed that book as ‘unpublished’,thinking it wouldn’t take me long to fix the formatting errors.

I was wrong. Whatever Ihad done wrong, it was there to stay, so I had to remove ALL the formatting andthen put correct formatting back in. Usually, this takes me about a week, if Ican spend most of my time concentrating on it. But I couldn’t focus on it likethat. John’s health wasn’t good, and then I started having my own healthissues, and months went by where I couldn’t focus on that book at all.

But I kept picking atit, doing a chapter here and there, and I finally got the formatting done. Iwas ready to republish!

Meanwhile, smashwordsand Draft2Digital merged. I was notified that Draft2Digital would be doing thepublishing, and smashwords would only be a storefront. My first thought was asarcastic, “Great, now I have to learn how to format books for Draft2Digital’spublishing software.” I have to admit that I procrastinated looking atDraft2Digital’s formatting requirements for a few days. I didn’t want to gothrough and reformat that book again.

But I finally took afew minutes to look it up, and their requirements were vastly simpler thansmashwords’ had been! I was still ready to republish!

It’s always good when anew process is simpler than the old process.