What I learned from Publishing a Paperback with Amazon
Lesson 1: Always order a proof copy. This is Amazon KDP’s new feature. It does mean that you have to wait, but it is worth it. Now, I am a person pursued by typos. I thought that with a tiny picture book, they won’t find me, but they did. When the proof finally arrived, the typos were all there, giggling. Spelling Lessons in the Forest of Typos By the way, my initial impatience resulted in a single copy with pretty unique typos. One of my twitter friends has it, and I feel guilty about it. Lesson 2: Prepare to wait and suffer. After I’ve gone over the proof I made changes to the paperback and the ebook, but there was a catch. While the book went live, the changes took a while to update. As I didn’t realise that was the case, I might have slowed down the process by uploading the corrected file twice. The Spirit of Waiting with a Touchscreen Artefact If I were to
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