My Book Has Been Accepted, What Happens NOW?

First we build an e-book.

1. The first thing to do is to download a copy of our contract for E-books, sign and mail two copies to the publisher at the address given on the contract. Both copies will be signed and one will be returned to you for your records.

2. Send a completed copy of your book in Rich Text Format  .rtf to the publisher@ebooksonthe.net. If you have never used Rich Text, under the "file" menu, drop down to "save as" and choose "rich text" from the options window. Remember, rich text will almost always preserve your Italics fonts and special characters.

3. A cover front will be prepared and sent to you for your approval.

4. You will be asked for input on the catalog listing that will be used to sell your book.

5. Your book will be typeset in PageMaker and converted to PDF or Portable Document Format, the most universally readable format at this time. A PDF galley will be sent to you. Please Print and Read it and either send the printed pages marked with corrections, OR a complete list of corrections with page number, paragraph number, the copy as it APPEARS, and then the copy as it should appear.  Both you and the publishers want your book to be as error free as possible. Please take part in this process and return the galley promptly.

6. Corrections will be entered when the  galley is returned. The corrected  book will be formatted in HTML and RTF and then  listed for sale at ebooksonthe.net web site.

Then we look for more ways to sell it.

The e-book industry is still in its infancy. Most sales, at this time,  take place not from publisher sites, but from large reseller sites like Fictionwise where every format is available and the selection of titles is wider.  The publishers are currently doing all that is possible to get our books listed as widely as we may. The publishers may then choose to distribute your book to Fictionwise and other e-bookseller sites. 

1.First, the files will be re-edited to meet specifications of the seller sites and will be uploaded to them.   Each seller-site has guidelines for uploading and they may differ from site to site. This is a time 
consuming process and not all books will be entered to every bookseller immediately as soon as they are listed at  ebooksonthe.net. 

2. Once the book has been uploaded, the book will eventually be listed for sale on the bookseller site and may be picked up by affiliates of that bookseller site for resale as well. It's a slow process and one that emulates the print books situation where very little is sold directly by the publisher, but most sales happen from stores.

Then the author gets paid.

1. Sales from the ebooksonthe.net site are reported monthly by email. If your book has not sold any copies you will not receive a statement. So in this case, no news is bad news.

2. If we do not have your current and UP TO DATE e-mail address, you will not receive your statement.  So please do keep in touch with us and make sure we have your right address.

3. Sales from affiliate sites and other venues will appear on your monthly statement and again on the quarterly statement that is mailed with your check BUT they will only appear after they are reported to us. Affiliates may take 3 months to report to a bookseller, and they may take another three months to report to us. Please, be patient.

4. Checks for royalty statements are mailed  to US authors quarterly, to the address you provide to us. We prefer to pay authors abroad through PayPal or some other electronic transfer service. If your check is returned by the post office, the funds will be held for you and will be paid when you contact us with your new and current address.

What about Print?

Some, but not all, of our titles will be published as trade paperbacks and sold on our sister site, www.cambridgebooks.us.  If your book is chosen for paper, you will be sent a contract for print,  and the whole typesetting and galley process begins yet again.