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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/images.midwestjournalpress.com\/SM-treasure-island.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.midwestjournalpress.com\/SM-treasure-island.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"216\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHere's a how-to on getting used to publishing public domain books (and your own work) easily and simply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis project was started to give writers a way to find the all-time bestsellers of classic fiction so they could study and improve their craft (as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_King\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Stephen King\"\u003EStephen King\u003C\/a\u003E advised in his \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/affiliate-program.amazon.com\/gp\/associates\/network\/build-links\/individual\/simple-get-html.html?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;asin=1439156816\u0026amp;assoc_ss_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F1439156816\u0026amp;parentASIN=1439156816\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"On Writing.\"\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe other thing public domain books are good for is to streamline your own publishing efforts so you can get a book you've written up and online for purchase simply, quickly, easily.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOnline distributors, as a whole, don't appreciate public domain books. They aren't big profit-makers. And get-rich-quick knuckleheads will try to get their own version up and try to \"make money\" with the least effort. Frankly, books that are in this category make very little money these days - \u003Ci\u003Eunless you add in additional value\u003C\/i\u003E. But know that their glory days are long gone. However, that makes your marketing that much easier, as at least they've had glory days - and so are fairly well known already.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYour efforts would then be in creating a new version which is more valuable than what's already out there. (You'll still have to market this new version, but it's not as hard as promoting some book\/author no one has ever heard of.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor our use, the epub\/ebook versions which are available for most classic fiction works can be gotten for free - but mostly these have been machine-converted, and so have errors or missing table-of-content, etc. Free is what you pay for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe advantage in editing these is that you can simply transform them into additional versions once you get the text sorted out and ready.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHow to Publish Public Domain Classic Bestselling Fiction - in \u003Cstrike\u003E11\u003C\/strike\u003E 12 Easy Steps.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1. Pick your text version carefully.\u003C\/b\u003E The fewer errors it has, the less time it will take to transmogrify it into your new, improved version. I suggest getting the .epub version, as it's already converted to html\/xml, so is straight text.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E2. Use \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Calibre (software)\"\u003ECalibre\u003C\/a\u003E to convert that epub to .\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rich_Text_Format\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rich Text Format\"\u003Ertf format\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/b\u003E (If it has images, convert it to html. The .doc and .rtf coming out of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECalibre\u003C\/a\u003E won't have images.) Involving Calibre at this early stage sets you up for publishing ease later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E3. Open it up in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/download\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELibre(Open)Office\u003C\/a\u003E and edit it into shape.\u003C\/b\u003E This is so you can use the Writer2Epub plug-in to make an epub out of it. Fastest is to strip the earlier formatting out of it and then go through it chapter by chapter, adding headings as you do. These headings will make your Table of Contents when you export it. Use search\/replace and style sheets to get it uniform and reading easily. (I set up the page as 6x9, as that approximates a tablet's view - and is trade paperback size, for later export.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E4. Create the cover with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGIMP\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/b\u003E Needs to be attractive, with big text and nice image. That image can be public domain as well... While there, I create a 8 1\/2 by 11 (2000 px by about 2900px) for the main cover, then a smaller one for web pages (325px wide), plus a thumbnail (180px wide). Only the print version wants a 300dpi version, the rest are all 72dpi for web. (Technical enough for you? Hire someone if that's over your head - or get ready for a learning curve.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E5. Compile your description and all other vital data into Calibre.\u003C\/b\u003E Your cover and description are what really sells the book - or gets the potential buyer to view the preview. Leave the Calibre metadata page open, as this is where all the data you'll need for posting your books will be readily available.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E6. Start up a project on \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lulu\"\u003ELulu\u003C\/a\u003E and get your \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"International Standard Book Number\"\u003EISBN\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp; Then plug that ISBN into Calibre to keep track of it, into Libre Office\/Writer2Epub for exporting - and this also gives you the search string for Kobo ( http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/search\/search.html?q=[ISBN-goes-here].) Leave that tab open.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E7. Export your \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"LibreOffice\"\u003ELibreOffice\u003C\/a\u003E version to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/sigil\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESigil\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E and check\/correct for any errors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E8. Publish it on Kobo completely.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E9. Come back and finish up Lulu.\u003C\/b\u003E They'll push it off to iBookstore\/iTunes and B\u0026amp;N, but you won't hear back on those last two for about a month or so.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E10. Take that Lulu link and post it to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/thrivelearning\/midwest-journal-writers-club\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPinterest\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/b\u003EThis gives you a nice promotion using that cover - and you should put your web page and Kobo link in the copy as well. Note: The demographics of Pinterest is mostly female shoppers...)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E11. Use all the various links and text to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edo a web-page on your site\u003C\/a\u003E to promote said book(s).\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E12. Then return to Lulu and publish the other versions \u003C\/b\u003E(trade paperback, pocket paperback, hardback, PDF, etc.)\u0026nbsp; Again, the point is to add real value, not just put out yet more cheap\/overpriced versions of the same book. For these Writers' Club editions, I'm publishing Study Guides, which have wide margins and a spiral binding so they can be marked up and studied - even on those small bistro table tops in coffee shops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere - you're published again. Grab your favorite beverage of choice (or a refill.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs you do this a few times, it gets much faster. After you've spent a few months on your latest masterpiece, you don't want to spend days getting it into shape to be published on top of everything else. 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s1600\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s1600\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n(Or - as Bill and Ted would say - \"A Most Excellent Journey.\")\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nRepublishing classics isn't as easy as it sounds. And the howls I get sometimes when modern authors criticize all this editing I do in order to bring quality work to them - can get annoying.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nHowever, much as the old bandage has to come off in order to treat the cut or scrape, so must one endure innocent barbed comments, lightly or brusquely thrown.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThe point of this is to create a study-series where an author would only need to download copies of these books and learn from the all-time great writers of history. Like sitting at the feet of the masters...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nI covered this earlier, when \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EI released the entire list of books\u003C\/a\u003E part of the Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selections.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nIf you want to find all the step-by-step instructions on converting a book into a published work, you may want to stop by my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/publish-ebook_fiction-publishers.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;page - there's a video there which will rush you through it (of course the book is more manageable, and has recently been updated with mostly-unknown new marketing data.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nFor our use today, I'm laying this out in the simple sequence just in case you ever get the idea to go and republish 26 classic fiction works on your own.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nAs much as possible, lay it out on an assembly line. Public domain works vary in quality. Some of the Google Books and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Internet Archive\"\u003EInternet Archives\u003C\/a\u003E stuff can get pretty raw with typos. So get the best content you can. Even then, you'll find they do some pretty odd things with their editing. (Again, see that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/publish-ebook_fiction-publishers.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Just Publish!\" ebook\u003C\/a\u003E above for what you need and don't need in a book these days.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1. Do all your text first.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\na. Clean up your text. Open it up in Libre(Open)Office and use the Writer2Epub plug-in for epub conversion.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nb. Add a Forward (which makes it into a newly copyrightable work) and Resource section at the end (which links to your site page for the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWriters' Club\u003C\/a\u003E.) This can be done by cut-paste and importing\/overwriting style sheets. The forward has blanks in it - you'll be finishing this up later, just before publishing. Save is in \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"LibreOffice\"\u003ELibreOffice\u003C\/a\u003E in native format.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E2. Do all your covers next.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nUsing \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GIMP\"\u003EGIMP\u003C\/a\u003E, you can then generate covers for each book - again, looking for \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Public domain\"\u003Epublic domain images\u003C\/a\u003E which are appropriate and eye-catching. Remember that these thumbnails are very small - so will need to also have large text. Again - get one cover the way you like it (in layers) and then you can adjust the elements to fit as you import the images.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n3. Make sure your own landing page is ready to accept data.\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nYou're going to be aggregating links as you publish all these books, so you need to have your site's landing page (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Elike the home page for the Writers' Club\u003C\/a\u003E) so it can have graphics and links added simply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n4. Now you publish every single work as you go.\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\na. Fire up \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Calibre (software)\"\u003ECalibre\u003C\/a\u003E and make sure you've imported all these books you're re-publishing.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nb. Open up a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/spotlight\/robertworstell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELulu browser tab\u003C\/a\u003E to start your project, then \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/search\/search.html?q=robert+worstell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eanother tab with Kobo\u003C\/a\u003E. (This will publish your works to iTunes and Nook as well, eventually. Amazon and Smashwords don't like public domain, but Lulu and Kobo have no problems with new editions floating in.) Those links simply show how I've been at this awhile...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nc. For each book, you'll need to finish up the forward, export it to epub format, check that book in Sigil, import into Calibre and check it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nd. Write a smashing description in the metadata on Calibre.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\ne. Then publish it to Lulu, who will assign it an ISBN for you. Record that in Calibre.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nf. Finally, publish it in Kobo, pulling the metadata you've saved.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThis last is the longest part, as it's the most time consuming. The rest can be done as you go, which is just a few days' work for as many as you want to create. The covers take less time than reformatting and editing the books. It all gains momentum as you go - which is vital, as you can get distracted from big projects like this pretty easily. But the rewards trickle in as they get accepted by the distributors (Lulu, Kobo, iTunes, B\u0026amp;N.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nOf course, you should probably build up to this by doing a few shorter series. I republished my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/dr-robert-c-worstell\/how-to-build-your-own-honest-online-business-online-millionaire-plan-book-two\/ebook\/product-21034764.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOnline Millionaire Plan series\u003C\/a\u003E as well as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/spotlight\/robertworstell?searchTerms=winning+your+infinite+future\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Winning Your Infinite Freedom\"\u003C\/a\u003E as a time-dated series.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThen you can start being a publisher for real, through finding great authors and publishing their stuff.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThat's the overview, with enough links to let you know how to pull it all off.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nBack to my grindstone...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; 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