I have been promising a bit more info on using Ingram Sparks for book printing and distribution. I cannot give everything however I can show you what it looks like to have an account and what you can expect. The good news is, whatever you put in there when you upload your book for proofing, isn't written in stone and can be edited! Oh yes, before I forget, a little hint about the little help icons in blue at each place you put in: I had a hard time figuring out how to get rid of these little icons which are there to help you. It may seem silly, but for me, sometimes it is little things like this that make my life harder! So, if you are like me, clicking everywhere trying to make the help section GO AWAY once I clicked on it...CLICK ON IT AGAIN! I know it may seem easy and logical, but it took me a minute to figure this out! Opening page looks a lot like this depending on how many books of course you have there. Before I write any more I need to make a quick reminder about plagiarism. Sadly like the hackers and scam artists, malware and spyware, there are now people trolling around looking for books to copy! Plagiarism is a very SERIOUS offence even to this day however those doing the nasty things they are doing on line to make a buck do not care. So, make sure you have a STRONG password you do not use anywhere else and also be sure that you put water marks on your images and never share before printing more than 25% of your book as I stated before. ![]() By law in Canada, once something goes into print, it is automatically your own intellectual property. however sadly, it doesn't take much, even copywrited for someone to change a few things and steal your work...and before that, you have to be sure they have stolen your work. Call it "collective consciousness" or whatever however more than one person can have pretty much the same idea once it is out there! So, you can get your work for a fee copywrited, however if a thief wants it bad enough, they will find a way! Just so you know. Now back to Ingram Sparks. As you can see, it is very easily laid out and is very straight forward, be fore-warned again however the interface is older and IT WILL TIME OUT between beginning and end and leave you having to do it all again, so get something in there and carry on, as I stated, you can always come back! in this screenshot, I put in the drop down menu in the upper right corner: this is where you will find all the things you need to fill in as shown here from paperwork onward. The nice thing about Ingram Sparks is unlike many other sites for Canadians, you get a monthly statement of sales, not simply when you reach a $100.00 limit!
So you can see, there is a long description, short description, Bisac codes (as talked about in other blogs), and price you want to pay and so on. You can control the publishing date also and make changes there as well as pre-publishing dates. It is all there and very straight forward however it is a process! You can always do a dry run with a make believe book to see how it works and all the things you need to fill in. Ingram Sparks has plenty of information to help you, and there is also plenty of other websites out there to give you more instructions which I will go over in a later blog in more detail for each area such as Key word searchers, writing your long and short description, and so on. All of these areas including metadata are important so I will do a blog of just some of the words I have been learning on this journey into the self publishing world.
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4/6/2020 12:03:25 am
if you believe that using Ingram Sparks might be helpful to your job, then you must do it. Nowadays, we need to find ways on how we can make our jobs easier! We are just getting the same pay no matter how much we work hard, so might as well work smart instead. At the same time, these stuff were introduced to the public so it could aid people with their jobs. That its something that we need to think now!
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