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   8/21/08

   calais50

   My material is not high quality enough for that. I recall BC member Kevin of Pointless Banter blog hard copy published his material. That would be exciting.

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   8/21/08

   timethief

   Have you checked into this? Blurb BookSmart™ www.blurb.com/
   Create your books with our free, easy to use bookmaking software for Mac and PC.
   
   You may also want to talk to crkian who has published an ebook and to Anok who is undergoing that prrocess now.
   www.blogcatalog.com/user/crkian
   www.blogcatalog.com/user/anok
   
   If you have a wordpress blog it can be ordered in such a manner as to produce a book format.
   
   How to write a book using wordpress
   Almost. This shows you one way to write something that is chapter based.
   A blog is a reverse chronological publishing tool. That’s what it is and to make it behave differently you will need to do some work yourself. You also need your readers to exercise some self-discipline.
   Following this will produce a ‘front cover’, an ‘index’ and the actual work.
   1. Create a page called “front”
   2. Create a page called “index”
   3. Create a page called “chapters”
   4. Go to Settings > Reading
   Make “front” the front of the blog
   Make “chapters” have the posts
   5. On “front” make 1 link to “index”
   6. Write a post - your Chapter 1. Publish it. Copy the URL of the post
   7. Edit “index” and place a link to Chapter 1
   8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each chapter
   Recent Posts / Recent Comments and Archives widgets could let people move around more freely and could break the flow. You may want to remove them. You still need a link to the “index” - use a text widget for that link.
   You could use Pages for the chapters instead of posts.
   The names of those pages is optional of course.

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      8/21/08

      slivatree

      I never knew these were around, this will help lots of people I feel, thank you.
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      8/21/08

      timethief

      You're welcome.
      This may be of interest. The Fine Print of Self Publishing www.bookpublisherscompared.com/
      And you may also want to look into www.lulu.com/
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      8/21/08

      acousticguitarist

      oooww that's intersting...
      
      Thankyou Sensai
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   8/21/08

   Anok

   I am currently doing just that - although in a more traditional way.

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   8/21/08

   lordiwanttobewhole

   I would love, love to have my writing on my journey to wellness in a book form...I have to really start writing more and stop putting myself down so much!

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      8/21/08

      timethief

      Go for it V. Get a free wordpress.com blog and structure it in a book format and then start writing
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   8/21/08

   timethief

   mtyler77 is also preparing to publish www.blogcatalog.com/user/mtyler77

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      8/21/08

      melindaville

      Thank you for the plug!
      
      Yes, I hope to publish by the end of 2009. I have 400 pages of my book completed. I have about 4 chapters left to write and the rough draft will be completed (and then the real work of editing begins).
      
      I have a couple of connections to literary agents in NYC, which I plan to take advantage of when the time comes. I know two people who have written several books between them and they have both offered to help me.
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   8/21/08

   tiggyblog

   I'm planning on it in the long term, but I'm not convinced self-publishing is the way to do it.

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   8/21/08

   slivatree

   The biggest cost is proofreading. You really need a professsional to do it if it is to be done properly.
   
   The other consideration is the cost of marketing and promotion. Don't forget only around 35% of people int he UK have access to the internet so the market is quite limited in this genre.

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   8/24/08

   jackpayne

   If you want to go with the Big Boys--the N.Y. publishing houses--there's only one way. Get an agent. Most of these Big Boy will no longer even look at a book mansuscript, unless it is submitted to them by a Literary Agent.

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   8/24/08

   Patricia12

   Great info timethief...thanks!!!

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      8/24/08

      timethief

      You're welcome.
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    8/24/08

    saiffarooqi

    i would definitely love to get my writings published ... in fact i want to establish myself as a non-fiction writer (these days i am also involved in writing a book, with a couple of people), but how to deal with plagiarism? one of my articles was plagiarized by a leading newspaper when i sent it to them to get published. this led me to take up blogging. it would be great if you could tell me something about how to go about publishing and all.

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    8/24/08

    SweetViolet

    Publishing isn't the problem...there have always been vanity presses and now there are ebooks, which are even easier.
    
    The problem is marketing the book effectively. It does no good to write and publish unless you can get people to buy. This is the reason that traditional publishing routes remain the best...they have the infrastructure to not only publish a book, but to promote it as well.
    
    You don't see any NY Times best selling authors using self-publishing or e-publishing, do you?

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    1. 

       8/24/08

       timethief

       So true. For example crkian wrote an excellent ebook on Blog Catalog and even though the price is very low the marketing end of it isn't easy.
       Ebook - Power of a Social Network - Blogcatalog - A complete guide to blogcatalog, including full colour images, information on gaining mass traffic through just 1 social network. Learn how to use blogcatalog to your advantage www.lulu.com/content/2394367
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    8/25/08

    n21arie

    Is there any available for blogspot too......?

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13. 

    8/25/08

    ModelElaine

    I am putting my new blog datingphotos101.com/blog in a PDF and will be giving it away to people who want to print it and read it on paper

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