Google Books Upload!

In hindsight, uploading The Burn Rose to Google Books was not as bad as it felt during the process.

If you're interested, start by setting up a Google Book Partner account at http://books.google.com/partner .

The benefit is that Google Books is a salespoint aggregator, so it will definitely get all your potential buyers to a place where they can get the file format they want... they also sell the book for you... and if you're putting info about your book "out there," Google will make sure people find it.

But Google helps people find info - and while they're excellent at that - they may not be quite as good at generating info. Instructions, for example... not so good... lacking in examples, contradictory explanations, circular definitions, links that intermittently stop working, lack of progress bars or indicators, a pre-populated Excel spreadsheet that was nearly empty, a completed spreadsheet that was rejected as being empty, an incomplete central navigation dashboard, and bits of instruction scattered... around...

Having said all that - I made it - and I think it's worthwhile; a little patience and it will work. I uploaded The Burn Rose content as a PDF and the front and back covers as JPG's. They ask you to use your ISBN's in the file names if possible... as in ISBN_content.pdf, or ISBN_frontcover.jpg. You have a lot of control over prices in various countries - I used an online currency converter and an international cost of living comparison website to place the price of my ebook close to the cost of a McDonald's combo in each country.

My goal for my first book was to sell 10 copies, and that has happened. Thank you! But please swing by and fan up on The Burn Rose Pirate page in Facebook.

-WDC