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Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 3

E-Learning Provocateur

I highly recommend using one of the Word templates that CreateSpace provides for the interior (but check the sizes of the pages are actually what they should be). When converting to PDF – which CreateSpace requires – check the page size again in the printer settings.

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Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 3

E-Learning Provocateur

I highly recommend using one of the Word templates that CreateSpace provides for the interior (but check the sizes of the pages are actually what they should be). When converting to PDF – which CreateSpace requires – check the page size again in the printer settings.

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Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 2

E-Learning Provocateur

Basically, Amazon sells your e-book and provides you with a slice of the pie. Smashwords can publish your e-book in multiple formats: HTML, PDF, Kindle, ePub, LRF and PDB. . • My commission percentage is healthy, and. • I retain control over my work (to update it, set its pricing etc). Oh, and it’s effectively free.

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Viva la evolution

E-Learning Provocateur

To me it’s a total waste of time reposting the information that already exists somewhere on the intranet in a pdf. When running courses on how to create engaging eLearning (concentrating on the self-study module) we concentrate on designing, as Cathy Moore puts it, experiences.

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Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 2

E-Learning Provocateur

Basically, Amazon sells your e-book and provides you with a slice of the pie. Smashwords can publish your e-book in multiple formats: HTML, PDF, Kindle, ePub, LRF and PDB. . • My commission percentage is healthy, and. • I retain control over my work (to update it, set its pricing etc). Oh, and it’s effectively free.

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Online courses must die!

E-Learning Provocateur

Frankly, there’s nothing most online courses do that a PDF can’t. Think about it: PDFs display structured text and pretty pictures. Anyone (and I mean just about anyone ) can create and update a PDF. I claimed earlier that there’s nothing most online courses do that a PDF can’t.