In about 30 minutes, I was able to load all three of my books to B&N’s PubIt! Most of that time was spent hunting down the Word files and making adjustments to the JPGs of the covers so they would load properly. But once I got the hang of it, I was able to quickly navigate through the information you have to fill out, copying and pasting descriptions and author bio from the listings at Amazon.
I encountered only one error, where the system timed out in the middle of an upload. I refreshed the screen and was able to continue, but after I was finished I noticed the book was listed twice on my list of titles. One listing was complete and the other was not. I was unable to find where to delete the unfinished title. But so far, this is the only bug I ran into.
Here’s a look of the preview window that pops up, which shows you how your book actually looks on the Nook. Like I said in part 1, it’s a nice touch but the font is awfully big and not adjustable. For some who are new to this, they may worry the actual font in their document (which should be no bigger than 12pt) needs to be adjusted. The only issues I really had were the odd breaks in the front matter. For example, the title appeared on one page and my name appeared all by itself on the next. This can be fixed though by eliminating spaces in your document to make it more e-friendly.
In part one, I also mentioned you can enter an ISBN. It actually cannot be the ISBN of your physical book, but rather must be an E-specific ISBN. However, I noticed that once my book, Stealing Wishes, went live on the Nook, B&N automatically linked it to the paperback version, along with previous reviews and everything. And speaking of going live, my third document went live before the first two. This could be due to file size, but I’m not sure.
As of the time I am posting this, my book cover images have not loaded to their product pages either. I’m not sure if this is because of a problem with the file itself or just due to the speed of the system. I do know that the image usually loads first for Amazon Kindle, and the product details follow a few days later. I’ll give it a week and see what happens. Hopefully, they will appear.
And in closing, hopefully sales will generate from this. Since the Kindle stormed the market, most of my attention has been focused there, and so have my sales. If you followed my POD Diary a few years ago, you might remember that the majority of my sales came from the Kindle. They still do today. Possibly a year from now, I’ll do an article looking back at sales over one year and compare the two. I actually have a coworker who invested in the Nook and allowed me to look at it. It’s a nice little gadget and let’s hope, for the sake of indie authors, it holds its own in the marketplace.
