JohnnyChin95
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Q: How To publish ebook to all platform?

Hi everyone who love books,

 

I have few questions to ask before i can start create my first ebook, but before that i like to intro myself first:

I want to self publish an ebook to teach origami, I will publish only one book only but if it success maybe will publish 1~2 more(this is only one of my small dream ,so I will not do it as my life job, just want to make this book to fulfill my small dream and get the money to continue to complete my big dream!), this book will be more image than word, and I want to publish it at major ebook store(iBook, kindle,google play), I want to make the book same in every ebook store with same ISBN

 

Questions:

-I tried to create a sample book in Pages app by put some random pictures and word inside but after export it as ePub format, everything messed and not look like the same, so I searched google and a website mentioned you should finalize your ebook with sigil software, should I follow to correct my ebook or it was me doing something wrong?How do I fix the pages design, so when user try to zoom in, the image and words in the ebook will not mess around?

-And how about taxes? Should I worry? I live in Malaysia, how do i deal with U.S. tax as those book store(kindle, ibook, google play) required you to fill up information?

-do I need ISBN if I only publish one book and just want to make some money from it but not a business? Where can i get it cheap?

-Any website, or email I can ask about self publishing ebook?

 

Thanks for helping me!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jan 5, 2015 12:05 AM

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  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Jan 5, 2015 7:12 AM in response to JohnnyChin95
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    Jan 5, 2015 7:12 AM in response to JohnnyChin95

    For questions relating to the Amazon and Google stores, you need to go to the forums and help infomation which those stores provide.  These forums are only for the Apple store.  Every ebookstore has its own requiremens regarding accepted format, taxes, etc.

     

    The FAQ  tells you what you need to know about tax id and isbn for Apple's store:

     

    http://www.apple.com/itunes/working-itunes/sell-content/books/book-faq.html

     

    If Pages does not seem to work with your particular book layout, then some other app like Sigil may be better.  If you want the layout to be "fixed", google "Fixed Layout epub" to find info about that format.