Spring Into Technical Publishing
The following books helped me immensely to get up to speed with self-publishing.
This book shows the power of write-page(s)-a-day process where writing incrementally adds up to a book.
The book recommends to register as a publisher and use Lightning Source as POD printer and distribution channel.
Use Microsoft Word to prepare your book. Very good chapters about indexing and cover design. The latter can be created in MS Word too!
POD People: Beating the Print-on-Demand Stigma
This is the book that I recently discovered and read. Although the author discusses POD in the context of fiction publishing it has some good points to remember even if you self-publish professional and technical books. It recommends to use Lulu as POD printer and distributor. I find it useful if you plan to publish one book only. However if you plan to be a full-blown publisher you should use POD services for publishers like Lightning Source.
Hope this helps. I’m also reading other self-publishing and marketing books at the moment and will post reviews of them soon.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -