Learn How to Make a Journal Book in Easy Journal Book Step-by-Step Course

Join me today on the live broadcast and learn how to make a Blank Journal Book,

December 1, 5:00 EST live workshop clicks here

Learn How to Make a Journal Book in Easy Journal Book Step-by-Step Course
Launching, Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 5:00 Eastern Standard time, 2:00 Pacific time. 

On Tuesday I will be holding a live workshop for my new online course called Easy Journal Book. I will be demonstrating how you can easily make and sell journal books on Amazon. I will be showing how to do this using PowerPoint as our layout program. You can easily produce a book using Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign but sometimes we don't have access to or know how to use those programs. In this hands on workshop I will show how you can make a journal book using software you most likely have in hand on your own computer. So be sure to join us on Tuesday and learn how you to can make a journal book.

To learn more about the Easy Journal Books course please click

 
Sign up for the live Tuesday broadcast on how to make a Blank Journal Book,
December 1, 5:00 EST live workshop clicks here

The course covers:

• We Start With Your Concept: what is your journal about, types of journals, daily, meditation, gratitude, travel, nature, exercise, food, diabetes/medical
• Decide How We Are Going to Publishing Your Journal Book: Where are you selling it, Amazon? CreateSpace? Print-on-Demand, Book Stores
• Work on the Design and Layoudft: picking the size of your book, how you are going to make it, book structure, options
• Show How to Use Master Slides or Template: layout, page numbers, graphics on the page. Includes a pre made page and cover template for a 6x9 book with 160 pages.
• Interior Page Layout: Formatting each page, adding art
• Where Do We Get Images and How Do We Prepare Them: sources, file formats and sizes, conversion, Graphics Factory, Shutterstock, draw them, public domain, Freelance/Fiverr.com
  
• Then Set Up the Cover: Building the template, cover design, layout
  
• Saving the Files for Uploading: File prep for publishing, making your pdf files for the interior and the cover
• Publishing Your Journal: uploading your files to CreateSpace.com/Amazon.com

Special Course Launch price is $47.00, Click here to buy
Use the special price coupon: JournalBooksSpotlight

Learn How to Print, Sell, and Distribute Your Book with IngramSpark, Interview with J. Bruce Jones

This week I had a great interview with Robin Cutler of IngramSpark.com on Learning How to Print, Sell, and Distribute Your Print-on-Demand Book with IngramSpark, We learned all the ins and out of how to bring our books out to the retail and library markets. Ingram is the worlds largest book distributor and and has one of the biggest print on demand operations. Combining both lets you print as you need and distribute anywhere in the world using their 39,000 partners.

Topics covered in the interview:
1:44 General into, IngramSpark combines print on demand printer LightingSource and the distribution company Ingram, now the world largest global book distributor

3:20 How a new person starts working with IngramSpark

4:00 setting up your account, uploading files, metadata, formats. Paperback, hardcover, saddle, including books with jackets

6:50 Can't do spiral, perf or horizontal books yet but working on them

8:30 we talk about ISBN numbers, from IngramSpark $85, they can work with Amazon also

12:00 learning about the IngramSparks book catalog iPage, goes out to 39,000 retail and library partners, this is big also, stores can order your book
Standard trade discount is 55% but you can set the discount from 30-50%

15:00 Cost is $49 to set up a book, one time fee, for either print or ebook

17:45 Print & ebook, they also distribute to Kindle, Apple iBook, Nook and Kobe and an additional 60 other ereaders
help with uploading for both ebooks and print, will also convert print to ebook for $.60/page.

22:20 Ingram has a global reach with PDF printing and distribution, also have partners around the world
Print in UK for Europe and Melbourne for Australia

23:00 Global Connect program, now includes China
We talked about putting a store on your site, collect orders and IngramSparks ships. You can also set up bundles of your books, send in the order and they will ship, Publisher Direct Program

27:00 we talked about a question on a magazine distributor who want to distribute their books in Europe and Africa, if this is also you check with the International Sales Team

28:45 Meta Data, introduction to keyword, reviews and google search

31.50 Converting yourself from a writer to a publisher

32:00 Ingram moves books to Amazon, also the importance of fostering the relationship with our book seller, be a customer of the book store and the library

To learn more about IngramSpark visit http://www.ingramspark.com


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Building a Journal Book Using PowerPoint as Your Design Platform

Hi all, I spent this weekend doing a sample test blank journal book using PowerPoint. It all worked. What I am doing is getting ready for my December 1 live presentation with Becky Norwood of http://spotlightonyourbusiness.com, we are doing this course jointly, teaching her students and anyone else who is interested. The recording will then be set up as a course.

I wanted to make sure everything works and that I can teach the course. The Step by Step Course for Making Journal Books will cover layout of the interior, the cover, images, where to get them and how to get them to be 300dpi for CreateSpace. For printing we will upload the book files to Amazon/CreateSpace. Everything seems to work just fine. I have figured out how to get my PowerPoint file to print the correct size pdf file. Also I was able to produce the correct size cover spread and get it to be 300dpi for CreateSpace without using Photoshop. That is part of the challenge, producing all the parts correctly. I think I got it

If you are interest in joining us on December 1 be sure to sign up for my mailing list over on the right or at SpotlightOnYourBusiness.com/how-to-create-a-journal. Because we are using Zoom to broadcast the event have a limited number of seats available.

The event happens, December 1, 2015 at 5pm EST and 2pm PST. Be sure to sign up

Test Journal Cover for How to Make a Journal Book Course

Inside test blank journal pages using PowerPoint for design and layout

Beta, How to Make a Journal Book Course for Beginners

I am putting together a new course on how to make a journal book. This is a beginners level course and we will be using software that you probably already have on your computer.

I will be doing the first webinar/webcast Dec 1 and then out to the world after that. This post includes my rough notes and ideas as I put it together. I will be working with Becky Norwood and her site Journey to Authorship

Beta, Course Outline

Your Concept: what is your journal about,
types of journals, daily, meditation, gratitude, travel, nature, exercise, food, diabetes/medical, 

How Are You Publishing Your Book: Where are you selling it, Amazon? Createspace? Print-on-Demand

Design: picking the size of your book, how you are going to make it, book structure, options

Master Slide or Template: layout, page numbers, graphics on the page

Interior Page Layout: Formatting each page, adding art

Cover Layout: building the template, cover design, layout

Images: sources, file formats and sizes, conversion
Graphics Factory, Shutterstock, draw them, public domain, Freelance/Fiverr.com

Output: file prep for publishing, pdf, interior, cover

Publishing: uploading your files, CreateSpace.com/Amazon

Marketing: social media, book launch,

Laying out a journal page, from upcoming course on making journals

Resources
Journey to Authorship, https://www.facebook.com/groups/JourneytoAuthorship/
On this project I am working with SpotlightOnYourBusiness.com
Image Conversion, Online-converter.com http://www.online-convert.com/
GraphicsFactory.com, http://www.graphicsfactory.com/

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A Cool Site for Converting JPG to PNG Graphics and Changing Resolution

I am going to be teaching a new course on how to make journals and one of the issues I had is how to convert graphic jpg files from 72dpi to 300dpi if you don't have Photoshop or something equivalent. Many of the students I will be teaching don't have access to the higher end graphics programs. I will be using PowerPoint to build the journals in this course. I think I have found a solution with a site called Online-Convert.com. It looks like you can easily change the resolution of a graphic. They look Great

The site is called Online-Convert.com http://www.online-convert.com/

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