How To Publish Free Book

Author advise (updated version of all in one page from my website how to publish free book)

A few places to sell books and downloads for free and how to make them.

Smashwords

http://smashwords.com/ need tax no. price free
Smashwords publishes here Apple IBook, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo
You can get a free author's interview here. Example here
https://www.smashwords.com/interview/LokiLaufeysen

Amazon

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US you can publish too for free. to for kindle and print
Kindle has apps to make ebooks, comics, and picture books also can add sound and video to kindle books.

Lulu

Lulu needs tax info price for publishing free
Lulu can get shop like this http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/TheMagicalFlowofWords
shows an example of a book mine, and after proof bought and revised to good book you can Sell on Lulu, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more
http://www.lulu.com/home books and ebooks. ( but my poems book didn't work in ebook)
you can sell on Lulu without tax info filed just you won't be paid.

Cdbaby : Audio downloads for sale posted everywhere

https://members.cdbaby.com/sell-music or spoken word poems on this site and paid you can post to nearly everywhere get cd and records of your work just copy your poem to here http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ have a voice read it or you read it and save output and convert to flac 16bit 44100 hz stereo with this https://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-flac and create an account here https://members.cdbaby.com/sign-up and create cheap albums and single solds on the cd baby and other sites! pay in bank account or with posted checks in us dollars. and within 4 days your bio will appear and your work appears 2 days after posting.

Making text to speech conversions for posting and so on

for posting on SoundCloud and other audio places or making audio for readings videos for Vimeo or youtube
you can make audio of poems with help of http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ has real-sounding voices.

Wattpad Ebook site

Another free publishing site is here not a regular book site It is an eBook library Wattpad
https://www.wattpad.com/home it is free too and has a google play and apple Itunes App
you sign up and add your poems as a book and you can share it with people over the web. with wattpad app and their is a cover app for wattpad you need to apply cover with wattpad beta on itunes or android devices. you can add cover on the computer too this is an example https://www.wattpad.com/story/120753041-vivienne-and-the-reaper-a-poetic-saga

Publishing tips for people who want to publish

Kobo
just need cover and payee details.
sign up here https://writinglife.kobo.com/

Draft to Digital
publish everywhere needs tax details to pay
sign up here to use findawayvoices for free

Findaway voices
make an audiobook of your books
they have readers or read yourself
read yourself is free to publish everywhere you can listen to your book on kobo app.
note they like audible where can publish need real voices not text to speech readers.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/ free audio editor good for editiing audio books componants.

Canva
https://www.canva.com/
free place to make book covers with royalty-free pictures

has free and premium accounts and pictures

Edit.Org-online editor

https://edit.org/
a site similar to canva it is a online editor with pictures to has free and premium accounts too

UnSplash
https://unsplash.com/
another free royalty-free picture place

https://howtopublishfreebook.yolasite.com/ another helpful note "write your way out of writer's block"
Won't work for uninspired, I just write when I get Writer's block so I don't get out of practice like well now my head is like a faceless puppet sock as I said in a piece about Writer's block I lost my talent for writing my interests are elsewhere a rhyming dictionary can help you find the first line then a line that runs with that with matching rhyme and so on and so forth I recommend writing your way through Writer's block and the use of a rhyming dictionary.

Audio books made easy

To make audiobook there are 4 ways 1 pay someone to read on Findaway voices
2 get a friend to read.
3 Read yourself.
4 or if you want to publish in places where a human voice is not a requirement like audible or findaway voices use http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ or ivona voices the best text to speech voices work with https://www.reverbnation.com/ and cdbaby sites where you can upload txt2speech reading of poems and stories to other sites. from text to speech good on youtube videos as audio and sound cloud they are directly uploaded.

Findaway voices site cost money to use unless you sign up with Draft to Digital first. But is free if you upload own voice files if you sign in with Draft to Digital first.
Then if you decide to get a pro reader it will cost money.
you need a cover for audiobook which can be made with canva, gimp, and or photoshop. gimp and canva are being free. Photoshop is a paid software.
It all matters what you have access to.
This being what menu for Findawayvoice audiobook making
https://i.gyazo.com/872decef98af8269806f1c759f5291c9.png

Needed to be paid are tax and bank details.
but the book goes everywhere. including nook and kobo.
good if you want to buy the book yourself.
The audiobook needs to be added on fav in parts with a promo ad which may be used by site uploaded to.

reverbnation and cbdbaby audio is made as one part without promo.

I am and have always been bad at reading aloud so I use find away voices a lot but they do go down sporadically but they come back. I am now in the process of reading a new book which I am putting on find away voices a short story.
As I said I have reading problems I am reading it in parts 1 (read)

A tall handsome man in a black shirt and pants with glasses sat in his dingy little office. He was scribbling on papers with some skill with a black quill and ink. He stopped when he heard his son Lance arguing with his assistant outside the office.

2
"Go away Necromancer he's working!" Blake Alexander heard his assistant shouting. "But I have to see him it is important!" Lance shouted back. Blake got up walked to the door and opened it standing in the door way he asked why they were arguing.

3
"He wanted to disturb you from your important work," Dante, Blake's assistant said. Lance glared at Dante.
"But this is important!" said Lance.

and so on
it's good for editing out mistakes and not hard for me to compile and read.

I read that off allpoetry page on a quiet divice and into another in this case a tablet with a good audio dictation
program.

I email myself the audio files to a computer and edit them with ocenaudio a good audio editor.

I created a file like this https://gyazo.com/165379a6a95f2136e5bbccd164ae0005
Copy and paste the parts together

another good thing about the reading in parts thing is you can find the parts for prom easier.

Testing online site with audio editing software online https://audiotoolset.com/
edits
3D Audio
Auto Panner
Bass Booster
BPM Detector
Converter
Equalizer
Key Detector
Noise Reducer
Pitch Shifter
adds Reverb (room noise echo)
removes Reverb (room noise echo)
Reverse Audio
Spectrogram Image
Stereo Panner
Tempo Changer
Trimmer / Cutter
Vocal Remover
Volume Changer
Waveform Image

more tips

free online remastering site
has many style of remastering need to sign up to use.

https://www.bandlab.com/mastering

Draft to Digital
publish everywhere needs tax details to pay
sign up here to use findawayvoices for free

Findaway voices
make an audiobook of your books
they have readers or read yourself
read yourself is free to publish everywhere you can listen to your book on kobo app.
note they like audible where can publish need real voices not text to speech readers.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/ free audio editor good for editing audiobooks components.

Canva
https://www.canva.com/
free place to make book covers with royalty-free pictures
bit like photoshop with pictures
need to sign up to keep old work but it's free to use

UnSplash
https://unsplash.com/
another free royalty-free picture place

Gimp
https://www.gimp.org/ this can help make covers and resize cover too and it's a free it is an alterinative to photoshop.

Photoshop
also good for making book covers just costs to use.

Covervault
Not actually publishing a book but it is a useful site with useful mockups you can turn his mockups into you book with a little skill and photoshop.
https://covervault.com/

I point of note this is Audible's publishing site https://www.acx.com/ only residents of us, uk, canada and Ierland can sell books on it but podcasts on some podcasting site allow podcasts to their site which has no country of origin so Australian run podcasts can be seen on Amazon and Audible such as this one from Podbean originally https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JJS4SR9/
and this which originates on soundcloud just redirected a bit. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K593K5N/ for podcasts recommeded by me are podbean and spreaker podcast site.
https://www.podbean.com/
https://www.spreaker.com/
what you also need to do is convert sounds for audio books with the next site
https://online-audio-converter.com/
to the highest quality sound to be able to publish on find away voices etc.

amazon authors can sign up for own free book page with all kindle, Audible and Audible linked podcasts and other versions of their book published there, on also has videos audios, blog or or podast feeds link to the page
https://author.amazon.com/

example of authors page she is classical writer curated
https://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Burney/e/B001I9U1QK/ref=sxts_entity_h_bsx_s_def_r00_t_aufl?pd_rd_w=TVdZa&pf_rd_p=7b65f550-ae72-40a7-86e4-c165711b4536&pf_rd_r=QZCVVNM82NE05TY2A9T6&pd_rd_r=9098a064-77b5-4011-b995-170f81870ff8&pd_rd_wg=E1b07&qid=1638515135&cv_ct_cx=fanny+burney

other mine just a modern author run one
https://www.amazon.com/Rachel-Lawson/e/B075M3TWJQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

more writers help
https://allpoetry.com/poem/15984610-Author-advise--updated-version-of-all-in-one-page-from-my-website-by-The-Poette

audiobook working notes example
https://allpoetry.com/poem/16009914-Rogue-of-Honor-or-The-Assasin-reading-cut-edition-by-The-Poette

Editing tools and Translator tool

Free editing tools

https://www.grammarcheck.net/editor/ http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ andhttps://www.grammarly.com/ grammar checkers and https://www.rhymezone.com/ online rhyming dictionary.
This is good for editing and audio http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ recommends English British readers.

Translators

To sites for translating into other languages and how they sound after translating back to English. Use as the name of translater of book anonymous when publishing or it may be published on amazon I tried to mention translater as google translate and was told it was not good mentioning it. So from what I was shown in an article, I called the translator anonymous and it was published.

this shows the quality of the translators' work.

The Shadow of the Wind - translated
The Shadow of the Wind
Under the moon's silver glow
I heard the wind blow
the autumn leaves flew past me,
like charms in night's debris,

the wind it cools,
the night was full of the airs of scented jewels,
the breeze blew on the lake causing ripples of light and shadow,
I hear the wind's cries and see its tears which fly and show,

as crystalline glowing rain, it is the coming of a storm,
the shadows of the wind do form,
where the shadow of the wind does go
the aura of night shows in its glow.

French translation with https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

L'ombre du vent
Sous la lueur argentée de la lune
j'ai entendu le vent souffler
les feuilles d'automne ont volé devant moi,
comme des charmes dans les débris de la nuit,

le vent rafraîchit,
la nuit était pleine d'airs de joyaux parfumés,
la brise soufflait sur le lac provoquant des ondulations d'ombre et de lumière,
J'entends les cris du vent et vois ses larmes qui volent et se montrent,

comme une pluie brillante et cristalline, c'est la venue d'un orage,
les ombres du vent se forment,
là où l'ombre du vent va
l'aura de la nuit apparaît dans sa lueur.

Translate back to English
The shadow of the wind
Under the silver glow of the moon
I heard the wind blowing
the autumn leaves flew before me,
like charms in the debris of the night,

The shadow of the wind
Under the silver glow of the moon
I heard the wind blowing
the autumn leaves flew before me,
like charms in the debris of the night,

the wind refreshes,
the night was full of fragrant jewel tunes,
the breeze blew on the lake causing ripples of light and shadow,
I hear the wind's cries and see its tears flying and showing,

like a bright and crystalline rain, it is the coming of a storm,
the shadows of the wind are formed,
where the wind's shadow goes
the aura of the night appears in its glow.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

French

L'ombre du vent
Sous la lueur argentée de la lune
j'ai entendu le vent souffler
les feuilles d'automne ont volé devant moi,
comme des charmes dans les débris de la nuit,

le vent rafraîchit,
la nuit était pleine d'airs de joyaux parfumés,
la brise soufflait sur le lac provoquant des ondulations d'ombre et de lumière,
J'entends les cris du vent et vois ses larmes qui volent et se montrent,

comme une pluie brillante et cristalline, c'est la venue d'un orage,
les ombres du vent se forment,
là où l'ombre du vent va
l'aura de la nuit apparaît dans sa lueur.

google translate french again from English

L'ombre du vent
Sous la lueur argentée de la lune
J'ai entendu le vent souffler
les feuilles d'automne m'ont dépassé,
comme des charmes dans les débris de la nuit,

le vent il refroidit,
la nuit était pleine des airs de joyaux parfumés,
la brise soufflait sur le lac provoquant des ondulations d'ombre et de lumière,
J'entends les cris du vent et vois ses larmes qui volent et se montrent,

comme une pluie cristalline rougeoyante, c'est la venue d'un orage,
les ombres du vent se forment,
où va l'ombre du vent
l'aura des spectacles nocturnes dans sa lueur.

Back to English with google translate

French

Shadow of the wind
Under the silvery glow of the moon
I heard the wind blow
the autumn leaves have passed me,
like charms in the debris of the night,

the wind is cooling,
the night was full of the air of perfumed jewels,
the breeze was blowing on the lake causing ripples of shadow and light,
I hear the cries of the wind and see her tears that fly and show themselves,

like a glowing crystalline rain, it is the coming of a storm,
the shadows of the wind form,
where does the shadow of the wind go
the aura of nighttime shows in its glow.
My favourite Poem I wrote comparing Translated with
https://translate.google.com/ and https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
to french and back to English