How to Format Your Book as a Paperback

     When writing a book before you publish you have to decide if you want your book to be an eBook, a Paperback, an Audiobook, or all three.  Usually, when downloading your book to the Internet at many of the book sites for publishing, it is generally as an eBook.  But, if you want your book to be a Paperback you have to understand that the format for this type of book is somewhat different from an eBook.  

    When I first started publishing all of my books were published as eBooks.  I then discovered that, although many people could download the eBook to their computer, tablet, or various phones, that there was still a market of people who still wanted a physical paperback book.  So I decided to start making my books into paperbacks.  Little did I know, that I would have to reformat my eBook to the paperback format.  This was extremely challenging for me in the beginning.  As of this date, I still don't have all of my eBooks made into paperbacks, although I have done at least eight of them.

     If you currently have an eBook but don't have a paperback, or if you haven't yet published your first book yet you might want to think about this.  (Here is a video of someone showing you how to format your book into a paperback).

     Although the video talked about lulu.com where you can get a paperback template, you can also get a blank or a formatted template at Createspace.com here:

  https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/InteriorPDF.jsp 

(Once you are in CreateSpace just scroll to the bottom of this page and you will see the various template sizes where you will see blank templates and formatted templates that you can use for free). Here is a video below showing you how to use a formatted template from createspace.com since the previous video above showed you how to use a blank template.

     There is no right or wrong on which template you choose.  Some writer's like a blank template, and other writer's like to see a formatted template of the printed matter that all they have to do is follow the puzzle by removing the sample text, and then just pasting their text into it as the video above showed you.

     This can be somewhat time-consuming when you first do this, but as you work with the template, take my word it does start to get easier.  Once again as I've stated in other blog articles, if you don't want to do any of this you can always find this service out on fiverr.com.  Just remember when purchasing a service from Fiverr that you make sure the person has a good rating before purchasing this or any other service from them.

    In my next blog entry, I am going to talk about Nanowrimo.  If you aren't familiar with this term it stands for "National November Writing Month".

    So stay tuned.