I've gotten published at a small ebook company twice (extasybooks.com), and then self-published, starting at Amazon.
for the publication: I followed the submission guidelines religiously, which included subbing the first three chapters in a specified format. It was less than a month later when I heard back with a request for the full submission. I had to go through edits and then proof the galley. Once I was published with them, I was considered in-house and got a quicker response the next time I submitted. That story was also accepted. The artwork wasn't to my taste.
At Amazon, it was fun but a lot of work. After writing, I needed someone to read and offer any advice/corrections. Ideally you get an editor, of course. I had a friend who did the cover art, but we had to go shopping for royalty free images and go back and forth with it. I had to format the story properly and then convert it, which isn't a big deal - they make it pretty easy. The final output is a mobi format with DRM. I also subbed the story to smashwords which involves more formatting per their specs, more complicated than Amazon, but they distribute to Amazon as well if you'd rather go to one place and have smashwords take a cut. I then took it to another ebook distributor and formatted it for PDF, epub and mobi (I skipped the .lit format). It's all a learning process. After that, I had to do some promotion and get some places to review the story. I made more money initially with Amazon, but more work, but of course every person will have varying degrees of success.
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Date: 2011-04-27 09:15 pm (UTC)for the publication: I followed the submission guidelines religiously, which included subbing the first three chapters in a specified format. It was less than a month later when I heard back with a request for the full submission. I had to go through edits and then proof the galley. Once I was published with them, I was considered in-house and got a quicker response the next time I submitted. That story was also accepted. The artwork wasn't to my taste.
At Amazon, it was fun but a lot of work. After writing, I needed someone to read and offer any advice/corrections. Ideally you get an editor, of course. I had a friend who did the cover art, but we had to go shopping for royalty free images and go back and forth with it. I had to format the story properly and then convert it, which isn't a big deal - they make it pretty easy. The final output is a mobi format with DRM. I also subbed the story to smashwords which involves more formatting per their specs, more complicated than Amazon, but they distribute to Amazon as well if you'd rather go to one place and have smashwords take a cut. I then took it to another ebook distributor and formatted it for PDF, epub and mobi (I skipped the .lit format). It's all a learning process. After that, I had to do some promotion and get some places to review the story. I made more money initially with Amazon, but more work, but of course every person will have varying degrees of success.