Today we will talk about the main stages of placing on the network, the work of samizdat sites, the money and time spent on creating an electronic and printed book on our own without traditional publishing houses.
When you have a set of materials, thoughts and ideas that you would like to politely share with others and not bother yourself with the layout of the site, subscribers or promotion of links, perhaps the book is still a good example of their orderly and complete design.
For those who want to know what is happening in the book business now - I ask for the second in a series of articles about the book's release.
The first part is about the choice between traditional publishing and samizdat sites, pros / cons and personal experience in the post: How an IT specialist publish his book. Part 1: where to go .
Read more about the book, the release of which served as the source of this material, in the post .
And now to the point.
The basic set of actions for creating a book is approximately the same as in classical publishing houses, at samizdat sites or in other similar free floating.
A short flow of how to make a book in samizdat (using the example of Ridero, selected according to the pros / cons described in the previous article):
About each step in detail:
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The current version is the result of work with the publishing house (Eksmo / Bombora) and their design. ( electronic | audio )