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Today I shall be cussing and discussing my experience with IngramSpark.
To be fair, I went into this new foray with zero idea of what in the hell I was doing. Zero. Incredibly more labor-intensive than Kindle Publishing on Amazon. That's simply what it is.
I didn't have "embedded font". That took me two weeks and several sleepless nights, only to find out it's a simple print issue. Color me educated. I threw together an entire book cover (front, spine, back) and simply wanted to import it to use.
Um, no.
I learned I must use a "template book cover" from IS with their calculations to print correctly. Okay. That took a good couple of weeks while I was struggling not to punch a wall and cha cha on my laptop.
Formatting. Two books in, and I've finally understood what I need on calculations. I probably had seven revisions on formatting the interior for "Chimera." Nobody was happy in Whoville.
But the biggest issue was the back and forth with ISBNs, barcodes, and uploading files. What did I need first? And I needed a cover to get the ISBN. But I needed the ISBN to begin the file for the new book. And I had to have all the info for both to fill out because Bowker and IS want everything. Understandable.
"Chimera" was three weeks of throwing my hands up and cursing everything from font to format and back again.
"Canary" was three days of pulling my shit together and using all the new knowledge.
Was it worth it? We shall see. Right now, the eBook distributors have my eBook but aren't showing the cover. 😑
IS assures me they have 30 days to add all the meta data, including the cover. They resent all the info, to make sure the distributors have it.
Hard to sell a book with a black cover, no matter how good the story. 😶
meh
Always writing*
...Dark Descent...second story in my "Canary" trilogy...
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