FAQ Overview

• Your book may be a .pdf (preferably) or .doc file.
• Your book must be contained in only 1 file.
• The file must include the entire book (cover not included).

A .pdf file is the preferred file format, since the upload time is shorter and less bandwidth is used.

See also: How do I write a PDF?

See also: How do I have to format my book?

In general, to create a book in PDF you must install a printer driver. From a text editor you can print your book to a PDF file. The software for printing PDF files is free.

Some possibilities are:

Tip: search the internet with a search engine (e.g. http://www.google.com/) for "create free pdf".

Adobe sells PDF print software:

OpenOffice and StarOffice provide a very convenvient pdf conversion (without printer driver):

Format your book (.pdf or .doc) with the same page size as the page size of the book to be published.

How do I set the page size of my .doc?

See help Microsoft Office Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en -us/word/HP051894931033.aspx

The text must be formatted in one of the following fonts:

• Arial
• Courier new
• Georgia
• Times new roman
• Trebuchet
• Verdana
• MSMINCHO
• MSGOTHIC

How do I change the font of my .doc?

See help Microsoft Office Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en- us/assistance/HP051894601033.aspx

Your book ( .doc) may not be protected with a password.

How do I remove a password from my .doc?

See help Microsoft Office Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051860921033.aspx

The images in your book must be inserted as embedded images. This means that the source of the image is saved in the document.

The images may not be inserted as linked images.(Inserting linked images means that the destination file (.doc) only saves a link to the image. The source of the image, however, is saved outside the .doc. When the .doc file is opened, the images are shown through a link.)

Nevertheless, Microsoft Word inserts images by default as embedded images. Therefore, if you have inserted the image through the menu 'Insert image' in your .doc, this condition is fulfilled.

See help Microsoft Office Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en -us/word/HP051898661033.aspx

See help Microsoft Office Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052324261033.aspx

Your book (.pdf or .doc) contains your entire book except for the cover. You may create the cover while publishing your book through the website, or create separately.

See also: Which covers can I choose from?

Your book (.pdf or .doc) must have at least 30 and no more than 550 pages. If your book is larger than 550 pages you may consider publishing in two separate volumes.

Be aware of the fact that after printing, some pages will appear at the left side, others at the right side of your book.
Therefore, we recommend that writers align page numbers in the center of the page and not to show page numbers on the first page.

You can create your book cover while uploading your book through our website. The choices our website offer in order to create a book cover are:

• Hardcover or paperback.
• Background color of the cover (required).
• On the front: you may upload your image or select a image from the WWAOW site,or use no image
• On the back: a description is printed on the back cover (required). This description is entered by the author himself.
• On the back: a image of the author (optional). The author uploads this image. Often authors choose for a image in Black & White.
• On the back: a biography of the author (optional). This biography is entered by the author himself.

See also: The publication wizard

You can compound your book cover while uploading your book through our website. The choices our website offer in order to create a book cover are:

• Hardcover or paperback.
• Background color of the cover (obligatory).
• On the front: self uploaded picture or a selected picture from Wwaow or no picture
• On the back: default the description is printed on the back (obligatory). This description is entered by the author himself.
• On the back: a picture of the author (optional). The author uploads this picture. Often authors choose for a Black & White picture.
• On the back: a biography of the author (optional). This biography is entered by the author himself.

See also: The publication wizard

See Site in General: Why register for free on the WWAOW website?

While publishing your book, a PayPal account is required. We use the PayPal account to deposit the royalty fee earned from the sales of your book/s. If you choose not to earn royalties, then you do not need to provide a PayPal account. Opening a PayPal account is easy and free of charge. We will only use your PayPal account to deposit your royalties..

For PayPal see: http://www.paypal.com

See also: How much will I earn with the publication of my book?

See also: The publication wizard: Step 4/5.

First, you need to successfully complete the publication wizard. This means that you have to register yourself, upload your book, fill out the book data, create the cover, select the print options and confirm the publication. Second, as soon as you have bought five copies of your book, your book will be listed on our website and will be available for purchase.

See also: How much does it cost to self publish my book?

See also: The publication wizard.

By default your book is listed on our website and available for all internet users that want to buy it.

When you do not want your book to be visible for everyone and to be for sale on our WWAOW website, you can choose for private publication. In that case your book is shown in |MY BOOKS| and can be ordered there. Other visitors or registered users of our website cannot see or order this book.

See also: How do I administer my books?

See also: The publication wizard.

In order to publish a new book, you start the publication wizard in this way:

• Click on the side menu |PUBLISH MY BOOK| in order to start the wizard.

In the first step of the wizard, you enter the general data of the book. In this step you can also calculate the selling price of your book.

• Fill in the title of your book.
  
• Fill in the short description of your book.
  This description will be printed on the back cover and will be shown in your book advertisement on our website.
  
• Select the language in which your book is written.
  
• Select a category for your book.
  When users of our website search books within this category, your book is listed.
  
• Fill in key words for you book.
  You can enter up to eight (8) keywords, separated by comma and a space, e.g. cooking, recipe, pasta, pesto. When a user searches a book through the search engine of our website and uses one of these keywords, your book is listed in the search results. Entering keywords is optional.
  
• Select whether your book is available for worldwide or private sale.
  A worldwide available book is shown and for sale at the WWAOW website. A privately published book is only shown to the author in |MY BOOKS|.
  
• Fill in the author.
  This may also be a pseudonym. The name of the author is printed on the cover of your book and in the advertisement of your book on our website. Make sure that the book title and author is unique.
  
• Fill in the biography of the author.
  This is optional. The biography, if filled in, will be printed on the back of the cover of your book.
  
• Click [Next>].

If you want to see the selling price of your book in advance, do not click [Next>] but use the Price Calculator on the right top:

• Click [Calculate the price of my book].
• Select the page size of your book.
• Fill in the number of pages.
• Select your royalties percentage
• Click [Calculate].
  The selling prices (Tax included) of your book are shown.
  In case you change the above selections, do not forget to click [Calculate] again.
• Click [Back].
  The price calculator is closed
• Click [Next>].

See also: How do I search a book?

See also: Worldwide or private availability?

See also: How much does it cost to pubish my book?

In the second step of the wizard, you upload your text file and select the print options for the book that you are going to publish.

• Click [Browse...].
  
  • Select the file with the text of your book.
    Only one .pdf (preferred) or .doc file can be uploaded. This file must at least be 30 pages long. The text must be formatted with the same page size as the page size of your printed book (A4, US Letter, A5, 6" x 9", 21cm x 21cm). Note: the file may not include the cover of the book.You will create your cover later on in this wizard.
  • Click [Open].
• Click [Upload book].
  
• Click the format you choose.
  The page size that you select must be exactly the same as the page size with which the uploaded .pdf or .doc file is formatted (A4, US Letter, A5, 6" x 9", 21cm x 21cm).
  
• Click to print in color or for Black & White.
  Be aware of the fact that a book in color will be more expensive than a book in Black & White.

See also: How do I have to format my book?

In the third step of the wizard, you choose the layout for the cover of your book.

Upload a image of the author. This is optional:

• Select your image. This must be a .jpg or .jpeg file.
• [Upload author image].
  If you upload a image of the author, the image will be printed on the back cover of your book and will be shown in the book details on the WWAOW website. The image of the author will be printed in a small format. Therefore it is recommended to use a close-up. You may want to look at the back of cover of some of your favorite books for ideas.
  

With regard to the image on the front of the cover of your book, there are three options: or a image that you upload yourself, or a cover without a image on the front, or one of the images from our library.

• If you choose to upload your own image:
  • Click [Browse...].
    • Select the image. It has to be a .jpg or .jpeg file.
    • Click [Open].
  • Click [Upload cover image].
    When you upload a cover image, select "own image". Do not click on it: it has to stay selected.
• If you do not want a image on the cover:
  • Select no image.
    If you upload an image and would rather choose no image: make sure no image is selected. The system will always take into account your selections and will ignore the fact that there had already been an image uploaded.
• If you choose to use one of our images:
  • Click the image of your choice
    If you upload an image and would rather choose no image: make sure you have selected the cover image of your choice.The system will always take into account the selection and ignores the fact that there had already been a cover image uploaded.
• Select the background color of your cover.
  
• Click the radhard cover or paperback.
• Select the layout below the lay out you choose.
• Select the font of your title and author on the front of your cover.
• Select the font size for the title and author from the select box.
• Select the color of the font of your title and author.
• Click [Next >].
  
  

When you are not signed in, you will have to sign in before the fourth step of the wizard.

• Sign in with your e-mail address and password, if you are a registered WWAOW user
  or
• Select "I am a new visitor..." in order to register yourself for free.

See also: Why register for free on the website?

See also: What happens when I forget my password?

• The PayPal logo is a reminder that we ask writers to open a PayPal account for depositing the royalties.
• Select the royalty percentage by clicking the percentage in the select box.
• To get paid royalties, we need the correct address of the writer.

See also: Why open a PayPal Account?

The fifth and last step gives you an overview of pricing, information about the book and its author, and snapshots of both the cover and the content of your book.

• Check the sales price and the selected publication data of your book.
• If you want to edit this data : Click [<Back] until you are at the step where you entered the data. Here you can edit it.
  Edit the publication data.
• Next, click [Next>] until you are back at the last confirmation step.
• Click [Read the excerpt] for previewing the first 10 pages of your book (book cover not included).
• If you agree with the all publication data like the sale price, publication data in the excerpt of your book, click the select box "I agree with ..." .
• Click [Confirm].
  
  

Before we advertise your book on our website, we ask you for a commitment of buying 5 copies of your books.

See also: How much will it cost to self publish my book?

See also: How do I promote my book?

• Click [My Shopping Basket].

For help with regard to buying books: we refer to the general register:

• Click [Check Out].

See also: The check out.

As soon as you have ordered the books, an e-mail that announces the publication of your book is sent and you have successfully completed the publication wizard.

The book is owned by the person who holds it's rights and published the book. This will generally be the writer, but can also be the publisher or organization who holds the rights (or permission) from the writer.

See: Agreement for WWAOW content providers

The publication of a book costs the author as much as the purchase of five copies of his or her book. The sale price is calculated, based on the number of pages, page size, the cover etc. Beforehand, in step 1/5 of the publication wizard, you can use the price calculator to calculate the selling price of your book. The selling price is also clearly shown to you in the last step of the publication wizard, before we explicitly ask for your agreement with the publication process. Once you have purchased the first five copies of your book, your book is advertised on our website for no additional charge.

See also: The publication wizard: Step 1/5.

See also: How much will I earn with the publication of my book?

You will receive as author a fee based on the sales of your books by WWAOW. You can select a margin of 0%- 200% on the sales price (tax not included). In the book industry, an author is generally paid a fee of 10% at the sales price (TAX not included). The royalties are deposited into your PayPal account, which is required for publication. Please note that Pay Pal deducts a 2% administration fee (with a max. limit of $1)."

See also: Why open a PayPal account?

See also: The publishing wizard: Step 4/5.

Along with your five printed books, you will receive a set of postcards, picturing the front cover of your book.
You will also receive an e-mail promoting your book, which you can forward to your e-mail contacts.

See also: How do I administer my books?

In order to administer your books, you have to sign in first.

• Click on top of the WWAOW site [Sign in].
• Fill in your e-mail address.
• Fill in your password.
• Click [Continue]
• Click in the header menu |MY BOOKS|.

All published books and the books on hold (to be published) are listed. The published books are books which you have already purchased 5 copies. The books on hold are books waiting to be bought (5 copies) before publication. Five copies is the minimum number of books you have to buy before WWAOW present your book for sale on the website.

When will my book be offered for sale at the website?

See also: How much does it cost to self publish my book?

In |MY BOOKS| you can change the availability of your book from private to worldwide or the other way around.

• Click in the column Availability (Change).

Worldwide or private availability?

In |MY BOOKS| you can also delete a book.

• Click behind the book to be deleted Remove.

The deleted book will no longer be showed on the website. When you search for a deleted book, you will no longer find it within the search results.