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Planning, writing and using a book that wins coaching and consulting clients.
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Auditing your posts, finding the book inside them and making it worth buying.
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Formats, mapping chapters to lessons, pricing and selling to your readers.
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Categories, illustrators, bleed, color printing, fixed-layout ebooks and school visits.
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Shaping the collection, line breaks in print and ebook, spines and finding readers.
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Reader teams, review-copy platforms, bloggers and editorial reviews, within the rules.
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Payhip, Gumroad, Shopify, WordPress, Ko-fi and BooksOasis compared.
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Free professional layout against the industry standard for books.
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Free browser templates against a one-time formatter with custom themes.
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A drafting and research tool against a formatter, and how to use both.
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Ebook and full-wrap print covers, licensing, color and when to hire a designer.
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Twelve platforms for ebooks, print and audio, matched to what you want from your book.
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Wholesale terms, returns, consignment, pitching and events: what actually gets indie books shelved.
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Library platforms, the KDP Select library exception, pricing models and how librarians order.
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Leaving KDP Select cleanly, setting up every store, pricing, libraries and a first promotion.
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Narration choices, AI voices and every route to distribute an indie audiobook.
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The quiet errors that stall sales, from covers to back matter, and how to fix each.
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Royalties, discounting, devices and setup compared for wide authors.
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ACX's new 50% and 30% model, exclusivity and how Spotify pays authors.
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A delivery service for reader magnets and ARCs against a bookstore where readers buy.
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Building your own bookshop with apps against listing in a ready-made bookstore.
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Tips, memberships and commissions against selling finished books at full price.
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Monthly income from loyal fans against one-time sales to a wider audience.
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Printables and planners on a giant marketplace against a store built for readers.
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Free template formatting against design control, critique and planning.
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Fees at real ebook prices, storefronts, marketing tools and tax handling compared.
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Reader magnet delivery, newsletter swaps, group promos and review copies compared.
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Amazon's reach and royalty bands against a flat-plan store that pays the full ebook price.
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A distributor to many stores against a direct bookstore that keeps no cut of ebook sales.
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Bookstore and library access through wholesale against higher earnings per copy sold direct.
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Kobo's 70% tier, the 20% print rule and Kobo Plus against full-price ebooks and print.
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70% at any price on every Apple device against full-price ebooks plus paperbacks.
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Specialty formats and a profit split against a fixed print fee and full ebook payouts.
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A creator checkout with per-sale fees against a bookstore with a flat plan and print.
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Your own branded digital shop against a shared bookstore where readers browse.
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A friendly novel-writing app against a workspace that also critiques and formats.
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A calm writing space for novelists against one that carries the book to print.
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Distraction-free Apple writing against a browser workspace for any computer.
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Visual timelines and outlines against planning built into the manuscript.
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Deep fiction reports and genre comparison against a whole-book critique plus formatting.
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A style checker inside your writing apps against a book workspace with exports.
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Free professional page layout against a fast, text-first book formatter.
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The industry layout standard against an author-friendly workspace with no subscription.
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One-time desktop formatter or a browser workspace with critique, planning and passes.
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Polished Mac formatting against an all-in-one browser workspace for any computer.
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Amazon's free, KDP-only formatter against standard files you can use on every store.
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Organizing a long draft and research, then critiquing and formatting the finished book.
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Two browser book editors compared on cost, formatting depth and manuscript feedback.
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Editing with tracked changes in Word, and when a book formatter saves days of layout work.
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Which to use for the cover, which for the interior, and how the two fit together.
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Free shared drafting in Docs, then critique and publish-ready files in LiberScript.
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How each ad platform works, what it suits and how to spend your first $100 wisely.
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The official requirements, what editors weigh and how to strengthen your submission.
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Email, retail ads, deal newsletters, search, events and cross-promotion that work without posting.
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The pages you need, book pages that convert, newsletter signups and selling direct.
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Set up Author Central and add free A+ Content through KDP, with layouts that work on phones.
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Free and paid options from Canva and Affinity to Photoshop, Book Brush and KDP Cover Creator.
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Scrivener, Word, Google Docs, Atticus, Ulysses, Dabble and LiberScript compared.
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KDP Print, IngramSpark, Lulu, D2D Print, B&N Press, BookVault, Blurb and Lightning Source.
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Which tool makes the better interior for your kind of book, and how to use both together.
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Kindle and paperback cover sizes, bleed and spine setup for KDP, Canva license rules and when to hire.
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Recommendations for novels, poetry, workbooks, cookbooks, picture books, large print and box sets.
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What the free tool does well, what Vellum adds, and when the upgrade pays for itself.
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One-time formatter or layout subscription: cost, learning curve and the books each suits.
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Warning signs, contract clauses to question and where to check a company before you sign.
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How each pays, selling on Amazon vs your own website, and special formats like coil binding.
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Royalty rules, the Kobo print-price condition, Kobo Plus vs Kindle Unlimited and whether going wide pays.
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Free vs paid formatters compared, and why where you plan to sell decides which one fits.
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When a book needs full page layout software, with cost over time and the books each tool suits.
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Trim sizes, KDP margins and bleed, writing space and the print files these books need.
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What to ask before paying a deposit, how to judge a sample edit, and a quote request you can copy.
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Every publishing task ranked by reader impact and difficulty, with priorities for each budget.
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Each stage from finished draft to launch, what can overlap, and how to plan back from a release date.
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Royalties, reach and the KDP Select exclusivity rule that decides whether you can use both.
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Commission vs subscription pricing, stores and libraries, and a simple break-even formula.
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Rates for hiring a formatter, what each formatting tool costs, and what pushes the price up or down.
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A five-question decision guide and scorecard for choosing between DIY formatting and hiring a professional.
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Price, platforms, design control and print output compared, with a verdict for Mac, Windows and series authors.
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A line-by-line budget for editing, cover, formatting, ISBNs and launch, with lean, mid-range and premium totals.
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Median per-word rates by genre for every level of editing, with worked totals for common manuscript lengths.
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Developmental, line, copy and proofreading shown on one passage, and how to tell which your manuscript needs.
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Royalties, fees, bookstore reach, ISBNs and hardcovers compared, plus how to use both without conflicts.
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Fees, ebook and library reach, and print options compared, with the split most wide authors use.
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