A long time ago, on a desktop far, far away…
Who hasn’t dreamed of not only writing their own book, but seeing it in print on Amazon.com, having a copy for their bookshelf, buying ‘five copies for my mother?’
Well, now you can do it for a $99 fee and some cybernetic elbow grease. This page will show you how I did it, and chances are you can do it too. I’ve been reading for several years about Print On Demand, the nifty new techology where you put in PDF files on one end (One for the cover, one for the insides) and a beautiful, perfect-bound, bookstore-quality book comes out the other. I’ve even seen the technology in action at an document imaging tradeshow (that’s my profession, by the way.)
I’ve known other people who have used Print On Demand (POD) as a way to self-publish, including my own father. My problem with that is I have no room in my garage for books, I don’t want to get involved in the process of selling and shipping books, handling returns, etc.
Suddenly, while Googling something a week ago, I stumbled on some fantastic Goo. Amazon, the online bookstore, has absorbed a POD publisher...