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ref.: Yesterday I created a book, in the Book announcement and promotion. Is it correct ?
Probably not...but it does give an author a chance to get their feet wet in promoting their book. The current book is a case in point. The author has been given several good suggestions on how to improve their promotion...suggestions that can be applied almost everywhere. This is also a very good reason why comments should be allowed in the book promotion page. Better an author have mistakes pointed out there than in the real world.wildwind said:
On the other hand, does any shameless promotion ever lead to a sale?
ref.: Yesterday I created a book, in the Book announcement and promotion. Is it correct ?
The cover in Promotions does lack text on the cover, and yet the cover on the Storefront page does. But it's also obvious which are links because when you 'mouseover' what is a link the pointer turns in to a hand, and normally shows the address too before you click it.
I do find the cover to be a bit strange though. The bright green (and very plain) bands seem to be a rushed afterthought, you can see where it overlaps the photos.
ref.: Yesterday I created a book, in the Book announcement and promotion. Is it correct ?
Hi Manimekalai,
I moved this post to our general discussion thread, as the promotion category is just for promos. If you go to the category, you'll see the details about how to post.
Your post looks like its got everything it needs. I did jump in and add a space between your hyperlink and the text, but that was the only hang up I saw.
Best of luck with your book!
ref.: Yesterday I created a book, in the Book announcement and promotion. Is it correct ?
The posting looks great! I would only suggest making a change to the book cover itself. It would probably stand you in good stead to include both the title of the book and your name on the cover.
Good luck!
Good luck!
ref.: If I click on Follow ...
Yeah, the Recent Discussions screen is essentially the place I work out of too.
Following is more for a larger Forum with dozens of category threads (we have 7) so for everyone here it's not terribly significant.
ref.: If I click on Follow ...
It's a new feature I haven't really touched yet. I didn't think it was one many folks here would be excited about, but it allows you to pick a category (or multiples) and from the home page filter to just those categories.
The "view" drop down shows "All" and "Followed" to let you filter the categories.
ref.: Is it possible to print content on the back of a cover?
Hi TrevorB,
Are you referring to the interior of the book cover? If so, we are not able to print on the inside of the covers currently.
ref.: How to Remove Back Cover Text Box?
What you see is what you get; you will have to choose another design without white boxes, if there is one. Alternatively use a photograph - of the right dimension - as your front and back covers; just add your text to the front cover. You can use a program such as paint.net to do this, and then deselect the Lulu cover wizard text generator, or use the Lulu cover wizard text generator if you prefer.
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ref.: One piece cover designer and wizzard
"Marketing Image" was someone's idea to help people learn the nuances of ebooks. Clearly not the best idea, as it is more accurate but not the terminology most authors are familiar with.
Anyway, the Marketing Image is your cover and it is embedded in the ebook when a reader buys a copy.
Now, there is one little annoying hang up that we've never gone back and fixed for authors - when you publish your ebook, as an author you cannot download that final, for sale version. You can download the epub and the cover, but not the final version that a reader gets when they make a purchase.
This is a well documented issue and something we would clearly fix when the ebook creator is updated, but (as I've learned from years of complaining about this) our ebook tool is complicated and challenging to make changes too.
There are a couple of options. You can finalize your ebook and set it to $0.00 in private access, then literally buy a copy to get the epub with cover embedded. You can also convert the Word file to epub, download it on the File Step, and use Calibre or another epub editor to add the cover, and use that final epub for your ebook.
I can confirm Kevin's statement as well - the epub tools haven't been changed for a very long time.
ref.: One piece cover designer and wizzard
First of all. The One Piece Cover Wizard is nothing to do with ebooks.
Without exaggerating, yesterday I have spent over 4 hours at Lulu and Google to find out a way, any way, to be able to find 2 'ghostly' places which are talked about everywhere but those are absolutely invisible at Lulu;
I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that.
I mean what is in my title's descripion! How hard I tried(!), searching, searching and searching,
Titles do not have a Description, but if you mean the Description of the book's contents then you do that towards the end of the Wizard.
I have never been able to find such place at Lulu enabling you to upload your book cover during the process of creating an eBook, and it is frustrating because my cover is ready for upload but until now useless. Yes, you can upload a marketing image but that is useless,
No, that is also the 'Cover.' But seeing as ebooks (ePubs in particular) do not have covers because they are not printed, Lulu call it a Marketing Image, because just like a cover for a printed book, it will be used as the thumbnail on websites. It is also what is shown on the 'Bookshelf' in e-readers.
since it will not be embedded in your final eBook!
Indeed it will, but for some reason not right away. Go back a little later, try a day, and you will see in the available ePub you can download to view, it will be there. At first that confused me also.
Where all this becomes so weird, is that last year as a test I uploaded an ebook AND cover to Lulu and the job was done in minutes only and I was fascinated of the quality of Lulu's outstanding online service and its ease of use! I can only conclude that somehow, Lulu must have changed his website and made this option unavailable.
As far as I know, Lulu have not changed the ePub Wizard for years.
But then, there is no place telling how you what to do instead,
Because there is no "Instead?"
there is no 'plan B', and the PDF manuals from Lulu don't tell you anything about any way to fix his. I have read them again and again, in both French and English.
Could I get some help, please? Could you solve my so irritating problem?
I am not sure what your problem is. Just go right through the ePub Wizard and you will see there is no problem.
Thank you beforehand and best regards,