[FM Discuss] epub covers & issue dates

[James Simmons]

Tuukka,

The nice thing about the CreateSpace walkthroughs is that they tell you
what they don't like about your submission as you make it.  For example, if
the interior PDF doesn't have enough gutter, or if an image isn't at least
300 DPI, or if it has layers that need flattening.  You can choose to
ignore the complaints if you wish to.  They let you preview the interior
pages so you can see *which* images it doesn't like or what the right
amount of gutter would look like.  They let you design your book cover
interactively and see a preview of what it will look like.  They tell you
the minimum price for your book and how much royalty you can expect if you
sell it on Amazon and how much if directly from CreateSpace.

There is no way whatever you come up with for OBJAVI will be as good as
what CS has.  It would make more sense to focus on creating a nice EPUB
with a Table of Contents page and an easy way to get the cover image in
there.  Let me put in some nice metadata too, so I don't have to load the
EPUB into Sigil and fix it.

As I mention in my blog post, CS gives you a free ISBN and distribution on
Amazon.com, as well as your own Store page which you can customize with
your own banner, etc.  It just seems like an all-around better deal than
Lulu.

James Simmons



>  The Lulu fields seem dubious to me too.  I've never published to Lulu,
>> but I have done to CreateSpace and I like that CS walks you through the
>> process of publishing your book, instead of asking for every possible
>> piece of info up front before you really know what you're doing.  I
>> assume that Lulu does much the same thing, and I cannot imagine why you
>> would not want to do it that way.  I have four books on CS and I'll do
>> the walk-you-through on the fifth if there is one.
>>
>
> Fortunately, Booktype seems to be developing similar walk-throughs as we
> speak. :-) This should make the combined power of these services more
> apparent and seamless.
>
>
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