Just register the copyright. My husband just published his first short story for free on smashwords, they distribute it to all other stores like apple, barnes and nobles, etc.
He did a lot of research, but in the end it was not that hard, just wait for the copyright to be ready and you can do whatever.
Publish a few short stories for free, if people enjoy it, then you can go further. He got about 100 downloads on the first week.
His advice: "you can write, you can self publish, if you are lucky you can get away with making your own cover. But get it professionally edited". He says he sees a lot of self published work that have interesting concepts, but they could really use a professional eye. Nobody is perfect and after reading your own work a couple of times you will miss some errors no matter how careful you are.
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Just register the copyright. My husband just published his first short story for free on smashwords, they distribute it to all other stores like apple, barnes and nobles, etc. He did a lot of research, but in the end it was not that hard, just wait for the copyright to be ready and you can do whatever. Publish a few short stories for free, if people enjoy it, then you can go further. He got about 100 downloads on the first week.
His advice: "you can write, you can self publish, if you are lucky you can get away with making your own cover. But get it professionally edited". He says he sees a lot of self published work that have interesting concepts, but they could really use a professional eye. Nobody is perfect and after reading your own work a couple of times you will miss some errors no matter how careful you are.
If you do, there is a subreddit for book downloads: http://www.reddit.com/r/bookdownloads
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