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Ed Ditto (what a cool name!) has written a guide to publishing your book from Scrivener to Amazon’s Createspace – the service that makes actual real printed on paper books. As he points out, you can use the same process for any other service that requires PDFs.

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How to publish a manuscript from Scrivener to CreateSpace (or any other print-on-demand service that accepts PDFs)

Amazon’s CreateSpace can be an excellent way for independent authors to round out their offerings by reaching out to readers who prefer “real” books.

But to do so you need to generate a PDF rather than a .mobi or .epub file, which can turn into a tedious, time-consuming, and/or frustrating process. You risk winding up in a time-sink of finagling with Microsoft Word or another word processor, using InDesign ($$) or other specialized software, or having to hire the job out (potentially $$^2.)

Yeah, me too.
How Punk Rock Led Me Down The Garden Path To The Joys and Perils of Self Publishing – IndieReader

Punk was a generation-defining social movement which accidentally gave birth to the fanzine—a Xerox-nourished zygote that slowly grew and mutated—decades later—into independent publishers and POD. The startling realization that you could do things yourself—put out your own record or publish your own counterculture “magazine” (I use the term loosely as most fanzines at the time were hand folded and stapled stacks of photocopied pages)—was fueled by the true original indie labels like Stiff Records in London. Without Stiff we would not have the punk anthem “Neat, Neat, Neat” by The Damned or My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello, and that would be a loss to the arts too bitter to contemplate.

—Learning to Write

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How Punk Rock Led Me To The Joys and Perils of Self Publishing