If you are someone who wants to offer paperback and hardback books along with your ebooks (and audio which is another animal), then there are programs out there that do cost a one time investment, but will do all that for you. They are pretty easy to use and are getting better each year.
I used to use InDesign for it, and that is a nightmare.
Now I use Atticus and it works great.
Vellum is for the Mac and is more expensive than Atticus.
There are a few others but don't have experience with them and so can't speak for them. (Kotobee, and some others)
It's all in how complex you want to get, and how much you want to spend and how much time you want to spend on doing the formatting in something besides Word. Like all Indie publishing, it's all up to you to decide and no one is going to make you!
Yep! That's the one! I have that one too, but haven't had a chance to use it, since purchase. I do formatting for a few authors who don't want to do it themselves, as an add-on to the covers I do.
The high cost of ISBNs are the main reason I used CreateSpace (now Amazon) for my earlier trade paperbacks and why if I go to paper in the future I'll use D2D or Amazon, then check the proofs carefully. For me, format doesn't matter so much. I'm big on Story. How it's presented, not so much..
If she was talking about when she uploads a PAPERBACK manuscript, the answer is, it depends.
If she's uploading a a fully formatted (as it will appear in paperback) copy of the book's interior, then no. Neither D2D nor KDP will make any changes to the interior then. (They won't make any changes to the interior of an ebook we upload either.)
However, D2D offers "print book publishing services". If you utilize that service and have them create your paperback, they will take care of page numbering while doing the formatting. In that case, the page numbers WILL change from the manuscript that is sent to them simply because it has to. I haven't utilized that particular service since I do all my own formatting. Because of the latter, I know how dramatically the page numbers vary from a manuscript and the interior of a formatted paperback.
If you are someone who wants to offer paperback and hardback books along with your ebooks (and audio which is another animal), then there are programs out there that do cost a one time investment, but will do all that for you. They are pretty easy to use and are getting better each year.
I used to use InDesign for it, and that is a nightmare.
Now I use Atticus and it works great.
Vellum is for the Mac and is more expensive than Atticus.
There are a few others but don't have experience with them and so can't speak for them. (Kotobee, and some others)
It's all in how complex you want to get, and how much you want to spend and how much time you want to spend on doing the formatting in something besides Word. Like all Indie publishing, it's all up to you to decide and no one is going to make you!
And Affinity Publisher, another great formatting program that costs next to nothing and is an outright purchase rather than a subscription.
But you still have to go through Amazon or D2D or buy ISBNs yourself.
Yep! That's the one! I have that one too, but haven't had a chance to use it, since purchase. I do formatting for a few authors who don't want to do it themselves, as an add-on to the covers I do.
And, yep, still gotta do those ISBNs!
The high cost of ISBNs are the main reason I used CreateSpace (now Amazon) for my earlier trade paperbacks and why if I go to paper in the future I'll use D2D or Amazon, then check the proofs carefully. For me, format doesn't matter so much. I'm big on Story. How it's presented, not so much..
If she was talking about when she uploads a PAPERBACK manuscript, the answer is, it depends.
If she's uploading a a fully formatted (as it will appear in paperback) copy of the book's interior, then no. Neither D2D nor KDP will make any changes to the interior then. (They won't make any changes to the interior of an ebook we upload either.)
However, D2D offers "print book publishing services". If you utilize that service and have them create your paperback, they will take care of page numbering while doing the formatting. In that case, the page numbers WILL change from the manuscript that is sent to them simply because it has to. I haven't utilized that particular service since I do all my own formatting. Because of the latter, I know how dramatically the page numbers vary from a manuscript and the interior of a formatted paperback.
I hope that helps.
Thanks, Dawn. Just in case she doesn't read the comments, I'll forward your response to her.