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If you need to make your books non-page flip compliant in Jutoh, here’s a quick lesson. Transcription All right. This is going to be a really quick down and dirty lesson because honestly, I don’t think this technique’s going to last very long, but if you haven’t heard, there’s a major problem with Page Flip’s and Kindle not counting for anything but one page if a reader happens to read the entire book or even parts of the book with Page Flip.

This is a short video showing how you can use Adobe Acrobat Pro to send documents out for digital signatures. Note: You must use the Pro version, it doesn’t work in Acrobat Reader. I have Creative Cloud and it’s included. I’m not 100% sure it works if you only have the paid Adobe Acrobat Pro since it uses the Adobe Cloud for storage. Transcript Hello everybody. This is going to be a short little video on the benefits of having an Adobe Cloud membership every month.

Get Jutoh - Click Here Transcript One of the great things about Jutoh is it’s very easy to make compilations. I have a video about making acompilation in Jutoh. You know that I love it, but one of the problems that I found was I had an older book from a client that was re-edited, and now I need to put the new edited version in. I was thinking to myself, how can I do this without re-doing the whole thing?

I recently decided to repurpose a product and turn it into a book and Kindle version. The Kindle version had no real issues with images since they get down sampled anyway, but the printed book needed to have the images at at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). If not the images would almost certainly be grainy, and I don’t want that. Most screen capture software saves the images at 96 dpi or sometimes 72 dpi.

Transcription In this episode I’m going to show you how to take a document, either Word or Open document or some other format that’s readable by Jutoh and explain the easy way to use a template. Welcome back. Like I said, I’m going to take my Word document, which is from one of my clients, and use my base template which has all my styles and other things set up and basically just import everything so it works and you’ve got 90% of your work done.

Transcript Hello, everybody. Today I’m going to talk about how to make your long documents in Word very easily usable in InDesign. I know a lot of people are afraid of InDesign because it’s really a complicated program, but hopefully the next series of tutorials that I’m going to do here will help you out, and I’m going to give you a free template that I use that will make your life much easier.

Transcript I’m going to show you how as an author you can add your book to Goodreads ahead of the release date. Many authors depend on Goodreads as well as Amazon for reviews and if you send out advanced review copies, it’s a good idea to actually ask your reviewers to put a review either on Amazon, Goodreads or both preferably. One things that’s always hardest from an author point of view, Goodreads is really terrible from an interface point of view.

Get Jutoh - Click Here Okay. This is an update and an important addendum to my tutorial on Creating Fixed Layout Books with Jutoh and it has to do with the table of contents. I realized that there is an issue in the fact when I automatically created the table of the contents with Jutoh by going up here to book, build table of contents, you’ll notice I took that out and I want to show you why.

Get Jutoh - Click Here Please see note at the bottom for an update. By popular demand, this episode I’m going to show you how to create fixed layout eBooks in Jutoh. That’s not just for Kindle. It will also be EPUBs for Barnes & Noble, iTunes, et cetera. In this lesson I’m going to discuss how to create Kindle and EPUB fixed layout books using Jutoh. It’s been asked of me by several people so I decided to make a quick video for you.

Get Jutoh - Click Here Transcript In this lesson you’re going to learn how to make book compilations in Jutoh very easily. Hi, everybody. Jon Griffin here again and in this episode I’m going to show you an easy way to take already existing books that you have in Jutoh and make them into a compilation. Say you have a sci-fi series or a bunch of short stories that you’ve put out but you want to make into a longer book.

Update I realize I should have accounted for the spine bleed and the new version on google docs has it. I will update the excel version as well. Transcript Hello. Jon Griffin here, and today I’m going to show you how to use my CreateSpace cover dimension sheet to create a cover in Photoshop with all the right dimensions and guides. Hello, everybody. I’m going to show you a real quick and easy way to set up a template in Photoshop for your physical books on CreateSpace.

Probably Deprecated Transcript I’m going to redo this series. Sorry for the mix-up before but this is how you can use Insights in Facebook advertising as an author. Even if you don’t have any audience at all you can get some ideas to at least get you started before you get people to your website or whatever, if you don’t have a mailing list. It is possible. You don’t have to scrape users IDs or emails or any of that questionable stuff.

Transcript Today I’m going to talk about using Facebook’s Insights and one way to get a more targeted audience. An easy thing to do is go to an author page. What I notice, and when you go to the author page is customers also bought items by. It gives you a list of 16 people you can look at. What I do is I copy all those and pull them onto a notepad or something that I can just copy.