[Travis McGee]

Jeff, do you have an info dump on the ins and outs of self pubilishing actual (real paper) books? Did you use XLibris? How does it work hooking them into Amazon and B&N?

[Jeff Head]

I went to the U.S. ISBN site and purchased my own ISBN numbers using a "DBA" (Alpha Connections) as the publisher. I assigned numbers to the Ebook versions and the Printed version of the book.

I then did some reseach and got with Lightning Source (www.lightningsource.com) and set up with them to do Print on Demand. That's how the printed books are going out now, to Amazon, to Barnes and Nobles and to my own efforts from my web site and at local book stores, etc.

I did all of the art and press/camera ready work myself using Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to make the electronic files they are being using for the book ... including all of the formatting for print for the two-sided facing page margins, etc. All of that is going to lightning source as PDF files created through Acrobat (Note, not Acrobat Reader, but the full version from Aldus)

I also did the same for the Adobe Ebook Reader and MSReader formats, purchasing all of this software to make that possible. I then provided the necessary files to LightningSource for the Adobe Ebook version. (Lightning Source also does the Adobe Ebook Reader) Amazon has picked up on that and the Printed Book from Lightning Source.

Well over half my sales are now printed books, and I am hoping with the new Amazon links that those sales will pick up dramtically, but I will have to get the word out regarding the same.

Barnes and Nobles also picked up on it from that distribution point (Lightning Source) I believe.

Hope all that helps.