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Project Gutenberg Self Publishing How-To Tutorials: Upload Your Own Publications

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Script Hello and welcome to Project Gutenberg’s Self-Publishing Press, a place where authors and readers can meet. Today we’re going to show you how to add your publications to the Project Gutenberg’s Self Publishing Portal; Project Gutenberg’s Self-Publishing Press is a public service. There is never a cost for using these services. Now lets discover how to become a published author at Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press. When you publish your book at the Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press, it is distributed throughout our Cloud Library network, where your book becomes instantly accessible to the World. With over 2 trillion web-enabled, mobile devices in the World today, distribution doesn’t get any better than that. Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press also simultaneously distributes your book to our consortium of Internet library branches. To begin you can access the website by typing www.self.gutenberg.org into your browser window. Or search for the Project Gutenberg website using Google by typing “Self Gutenberg” and clicking Google Search. After arriving at the website’s homepage you must first sign-in by selecting the “MyAccount” button at the top right corner of the page. Then enter your username and password and click “Sign In”. Before uploading your book you may want to familiarize yourself with the 3 helpful options in the “Get Published” drop down menu near the top of the page. The first option, the “Submissions Guidelines” details the specific guideline requirements for uploading eBooks to Project Gutenberg’s Self-Publishing Press. In addition this page provides several links to helpful style guide tutorials and even complimentary cover page templates if you have not designed your own book cover. Select the “need a cover template” link. Then be sure “Save File” is selected. Now you can click “OK”. Remember to save your template in a folder you can find easily. We’ve decided to save our template in a folder called “Book Covers”. Then click Sa

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