Hymnal Printing

Often churches and other religious organizations need to publish small quantities of books. Until recently, doing this was cost-prohibitive – especially for books that would only be used a few times within the church.

Now, with WWAOW, churches are finding that they have the ability to print seasonal publications and specialized Hymnals for church programs. The low-cost of small run publishing allows churches to not only create these specialized books, but also to turn them into a source of revenue as their members can purchase them online or in the church bookstore.

You can learn more about self publishing books at WWAOW.com

How Much Does It Cost To Self-Publish?

Answering this question is a lot like answering the question of how much does a diamond ring cost?

The answer? Between about $79 and “How high is your credit limit?”.

If you work through WWAOW, then you can upload your book at no cost. Making your book available for worldwide distribution requires you to purchase just five copies. So, the average cost is around $79.

Other services charge much more. Many self-publishing authors who use different services often pay as much as several thousand dollars just to get their book into the publishing company’s system. These fees generally do not include copies of the book. They cost extra.

Learn more about Self Publishing at WWAOW.com!

Book Publishing and Profits for the Church

If you work for a Church or are in charge of a Church’s publications, then you have an excellent way to increase revenues for your organization – by publishing books!

Right now, many churches sell DVDs and tapes of their services. This makes sense because it is very easy to make just a few DVDs or tapes at a time. As they sell, you can make more using a home computer or VCR.

Now with WWAOW, it is possible to make books on-demand – the same way you do now with your video offerings. In fact, offering the video as well as book formats in a package is one of the most popular ways of delivering your organization’s message!

Here are some great ideas of ways your Church organization can use books:

• Offer books as a way increase donations and to offer as gifts at fundraisers
• Create workbooks and daily devotions books for members to use during the week
• Create a “Welcome Book” for new members to welcome them into the church and provide them with some background information and history of the church
• Package videos of sermons with your books so your members have both
• Create custom Hymnals – even incorporating more modern music, and music that is written by your choir and members!
  

Book Formatting – Can I Do It Myself?

Formatting your own book for publishing on WWAOW is incredibly easy. Just follow these three steps:

1. Set the Document Dimensions and Margins
2. Set up your Styles and Apply Them
3. Add Sections and Breaks to your Book

Now, we’ll explain each of these points in detail:

Set the Document Dimensions and Margins

The first thing you do is go to File => Page Setup. This will bring up your Page Setup screen. Like this:

You set up your Paper size (6x9 is the most popular), then your Margins and Layout tabs. Make sure to apply your changes to the “whole document”, not “Selected Text”.

Set up Your Styles and Apply Them

Now, go to Format => Styles and Formatting. This will bring up your list of Styles. Like this:

By Clicking on the drop arrow next to each format, you can modify the Font face, size and other attributes. Keep in mind that it is usually best for your Normal text to be a Serif font like Times, whereas Headings and Sub Heads usually use a Sans Serif Font like Arial.

If you are publishing on WWAOW then the fonts supported are:

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

Once you have your styles set up, all you have to do is select the text you want to apply a style to and then click on the appropriate style (as shown above).

The biggest reason to do this is that if you decide later on you want to change the look of your book, all you have to do is change the setting in your Style’s, and your entire book will be instantly updated!

Add Sections and Breaks to Your Book

If you have been working with long texts in Word before, then you know it’s virtually impossible to use the “Enter” key to get all your Chapters to start on their own pages. That’s because if you make any changes at the front of the document, then all the other pages will shift, and then you have to go back through the entire book to fix them.

That’s why you should add Section Breaks for each Chapter of your book. This keeps everything flowing correctly. Here’s how to do it:

1. Place your curser at the end of each Chapter.
2. Go to Insert => Break (The Break Screen will display as above).
3. Select “Continuous”, then Click “Ok”
4. Now, Go to Insert => Break again
5. This time select “Page Break” and click “Ok”

This will insert a section break, and then a page break in your document; allowing you to edit content anywhere in your Word document without worrying about how the Chapters will flow.

By creating the Section Break using the “Continuous” option, you give yourself the ability to create custom headers and footers for each Chapter.

So, you see. With a little finesse, you can make great-looking books without paying an expensive designer to typeset your book for you.

Website for Your Book

Should you build a website for your book?

Of course you should! In fact, there are few things that can help you sell more books than to have a website dedicated to your book’s success.

If you’ve never built a website before, then this may seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, building a website for your book is extremely easy and FREE!

Here’s how to do it:

1. Create an account on Google’s Blogger system (https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=blogger). It is important to think about your blog’s name because it will appear like this: yourblog.blogspot.com. So, if the name of your book is “The Happy Chef”, then you might name your blog thehappychef.blogspot.com.
2. Once you have created your account, go to the Dashboard for your blog and click on the “Layout” link. You can customize the look of your blog here by clicking the “Pick a New Template” link.
3. Now, you can start putting content on your website. This is easy. Just click on the “+ New Post” link on your dashboard and start writing! You can format your text, add pictures, insert hyperlinks to make everything look like you want.
4. When you have finished your first post, just click on the Publish button, and it will show up on your site!

There are a number of other Blogging systems out there if you prefer to work with something else. A couple others you might investigate are Wordpress and Typepad.

Regardless of the system you choose, there is no reason to spend a lot of money (or a lot of time) building a website. The most important thing is to go ahead and do it!

Once you have a website, you have a platform you can use to promote your books with advertising and word-of-mouth marketing techniques.

Learn more about how to promote your book at http://www.wwaow.com/!