I did publish anther photo series as an ebook:
"Cynthia's Photoshoot".
It is available at Lulu:
It is also available at Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cynthia-s-photoshoot
Monday, June 20, 2022
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Another eBook published: Cynthia's Wedding Night - Part 2
I just completed the publication of my second 1/6 graphic novel ebook:
It is available on Lulu:
It is also available on Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cynthia-s-wedding-night-part-2
Sunday, June 05, 2022
Publishing at Smashwords
From a list of rankings of ebook publishers for adult content (https://medium.com/) I found the publisher Smashwords.
The signing-up and publishing went very easy. They serve several retailers, also Kobo - so I have to see what I will do with my already existing book there.
The site works very professionally: it creates several versions of ebook formats: PDF, Kindle (.mobi), Plain txt, Palm Doc, epub, Sony reader LRF, and online html. All other previous publishers only created epub - which is probably the most useful format anyway.
Interesting that Smashwords needs the file in .doc, not in .docx. So I had to do one additional conversion step myself.
Interesting is also that they ask for some specific information about erotica content - they do not state that they will reject it, but they will apparently take care of this with several of their retailers.
One issue was flagged by the Autovetter: I do have an auto-generated table-of-content (TOC) in my manuscript: one of the generated epub from the previous publishers did not have an auto-generated TOC, so I used Google Docs to auto-create the TOC. Seemed to be OK for Lulu, for Kobo, and for Amazon Kindle. But Smashword tagged this as a "potential issue".
I decided not to fix this issue.
The standard Epubcheck by Smashwords was passed.
The book is now here on Smashword:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1150533
Before it can go into the premium catalog, I need to make changes: remove the TOC.
--- did remove the TOC, saved it.
New problem: the file is larger than 15 MB. Limit of a re-uploaded doc is 15MB. Annoying! This is of course because I do have many pictures in the file...
Did not have that problem when uploading it for the first time - there was no size limit!
- after uploading an older version of 1st edition (I am not sure what the difference is... looked the same, 139 pics) I got below the 15MB size limit.
Now this is all done also in the premium section of Smashwords.
I did leave my other Kobo instance. It has a different eISBN anyway. So there will just be two different publishers then on all the KOBO controlled retailers..
Friday, June 03, 2022
More publishing: Amazon Kindle and Kobo
I did submit "Cynthia's Wedding Night" also to Amazon Kindle and to Kobo. Went very straight forward for both publishers.
On Kobo there was no category "Erotica"... only "Romance".
Both publishers will do a review. Possibly my book will get rejected, because its "explicit" pictures. They will get back latest in 72 hours.
I also tried Barnes & Noble, but for signing up one needs a US mobile telephone number...
No more news from Lot's Cave. Their latest blog entry is from sometime in 2019. Maybe they are dead? I got automated confirmation emails, and the site has lots of books on offer. But some site aspects are still "under construction"...
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