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If you make training materials and want to release your work as books then here are a few tips from my experience of publishing learning books for travel writers:

The Google Books Partner Center, lets you open an account if you have a gmail email address and a UK bank account. You request a book store account, pay in £1 and then you can upload your ebooks in .EPUB format. 

https://play.google.com/books/publish/


Convert from WORD to EPUB

To convert your WORD.DOCX file into .EPUB format, I suggest the free software that I've used since August 2019, Calibre eBook Maker, free download below:

https://calibre-ebook.com/download


What Next?

When I had built expeience on Google's eBook selling platform, I began to explore Amazon's platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Again, it is worth having a normal buyer's account with Amazon UK so that you know what it's like to buy books online. I then opened a KDP account using this website from Amazon, link below. Amazon's KDP site also gives you a free App to download for laptops to make and check eBook formats, called Kindle Create. It took me nearly 2 weeks to learn how to use it but in the long run it was worth it because it solved lots of my formating problems, The App, Kindle Create, is very good at making you work in chapters. I resisted this structure at first but would recommend working in chapters now. 

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/

Finally, with your KDP account you can upload and publish live any books that you have written and created in Kindle Create. Within the logged-in platform you can choose book covers. I have tried to upload my own cover images but I am still learning how to format these. The example below is one of Amazon’s free cover templates. 

When my Kindle eBook was ready, I realised that Amazon's KDP platform lets you use the same book file to make a paperback. Here is one of my learning books for authors of non-fiction in A6-paperback and Kindle eBook formats:




If you found my advice helpful, please buy my book to support my writing and teaching. When you have published your book, then please leave a message in the Comments below, or reach me on Twitter or Threads and I will post a link to your book here, too. Break a nib! 













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