Writing a book about a bike tour
05-18-18, 09:01 PM
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I don't know, but most likely not both paper and !Amazon together.
First experiment has been to publish it as a Kindle book. Amazon makes it not too tough to turn a MS word document into a Kindle book so that is what I tried first. There are also similar tools to help format a print-on-demand book that gets printed on paper when someone orders. Depending on how the Kindle experiment goes, I might try that later if only to create some paperback copies. My sense is print on demand is overall a higher cost per copy but otherwise works better for books that have a low and uncertain number of copies. There are free tools like Sigil and Calibre that can do a lot of the same formatting work and other distributors of print on demand books or electronic books.
It has been an interesting exercise to try writing a book about my bike tours and interesting to learn some of the publishing tools. However, I also don't see myself taking this experiment too much farther.
First experiment has been to publish it as a Kindle book. Amazon makes it not too tough to turn a MS word document into a Kindle book so that is what I tried first. There are also similar tools to help format a print-on-demand book that gets printed on paper when someone orders. Depending on how the Kindle experiment goes, I might try that later if only to create some paperback copies. My sense is print on demand is overall a higher cost per copy but otherwise works better for books that have a low and uncertain number of copies. There are free tools like Sigil and Calibre that can do a lot of the same formatting work and other distributors of print on demand books or electronic books.
It has been an interesting exercise to try writing a book about my bike tours and interesting to learn some of the publishing tools. However, I also don't see myself taking this experiment too much farther.
Hopefully one day it will be papered!
05-26-18, 11:34 AM
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he may have one too... Cycling through Africa: Turkish Hasan Söylemez's adventure of a lifetime - BBC News
05-27-18, 05:04 AM
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Bought the book. Enjoying it. Raises interesting questions wrt life choices.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
05-31-18, 09:29 AM
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Each of your trips could be a book in themselves. I'm up to your African journey as of last night. What incredible opportunities (and some additions to my own bucket list)!
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