How to Print Your Book with Barnes & Noble Press

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Exterior and Interior preview
03:17 Creating a project on B&N Press
04:43 Material options
07:17 Formatting overview
12:38 Upload interior file
12:54 Saving as a PDF
14:27 Book cover options
15:05 Designing a book cover on Canva
17:17 Saving your Canva image as a PDF
17:44 Uploading your cover
19:20 Submit for review
20:55 Order a copy of your book
21:33 Conclusion

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[Tofu]

Thanks so much as a 12 year old I was overwhelmed on what to do and now I can start making my own chapter book!

[WeeKid]

You make this process feel very approachable! I’m impressed with your teaching skills. This makes me want to hurry up and finish writing SOMETHING so I can print my own personal copy! 😂

[WellsMcDonnell]

Hello! Yes, I want a full tutorial for Open Office or even Google Docs. Thanks!

[merariantunez]

I came up with the idea of making personalized children's books for my 4 nephews and nieces about the same age( 5-7). I wanted the book to tell a story about the (real-life) adventures we have done together such as zip-lining, hiking, pools, and ice skating, etc. Long story short, with the help of ChatGPT, I was able to prompt it to help me create a narrative for a kid's book based on the adventures I was providing. I used Canva Magic Media (their AI) to create images (cartoon-like and playful) based on the story I was telling. It came out so cute! Now you have helped me tremendously with the details, such as the blank pages and margins. I was afraid the pictures were going to print on the other side of the page and not side by side with the narrative. I have never in my life made a book. My nephews and nieces have inspired me and you guided me through this fun creative journey! Thank youuuu! Now ready to upload to Barnes & Noble Press!

[thekarmafarmer]

That`s a real nice preview into self-printing, thanks. Well done, btw! That book looks professional and very readable. Great job!

[SdudyoyO]

I'm currently in the process of getting the first third of my stories first draft printed as a personal keepsake reviewed -- This video answered the few questions I had left about the whole process! I obviously don't want to sell it, because it's far from a completed story--But, I'd like to have my entire draft printed out for reference later when I decide to rewrite the story in the future! Plus, it'll be fun to look at on my shelf.

[gray]

Thank you for this! I write a lot of stuff that’s not long enough to be anything to sell, short stories of my characters, and fanfictions. I want to get one of my projects printed when it’s done and this made it way easier to understand than any other video I’ve seen.

[FC-oisj]

I just watched your video on how to print your personal keepsake book from Barnes and Nobles!

[katiewildwitch]

Thank you so much for this! I am trying to create an illustrated poetry book with limited resources. I've been playing with Canva and you are the first person to say you made your cover with Canva and it looks really good. Most youtubers say "How to make an Ebook with Canva" so it's really good to see the cover design of a print book made with Canva also.

[jeannetimpson]

I received my first copy of my personal book the other day & am overall quite pleased, but I do want to make a few text changes & reformat a couple of pages. How does one go about this? Thank you! :)

[ethangarofolo]

Fantastic video, thank you so much! I'm looking to make some keepsakes as Christmas presents for this year, and I couldn't make sense of B&N's margin information. I was going to buy Scrivener as well, but I found settings that will work in Apple Pages, so savings there too.

[JosephsNostalgicRevolution]

My book comes out tomorrow, The Lutheran Chase. I haven't seen it in real person before, so I hope they have it at my local B&N stores tomorrow, after a few pre-orders from my family and friends. An amazing accomplishment for me in the last few years. Whenever I didn't do film photography, or hockey. I finally pushed myself for me to write my debut novel, in which I've learned from Brian Russell. I released my book through B&N as a pre-order, I learned from how to do it and finally come out as an rookie author. Thank you so much!

[MFBEY_]

Thank you for the thoroughly explained tutorial.

[authorEE_ESE]

I am new to your channel. ♥ I rarely see people using OpenOffice to format their paperbacks and I know its a learning curve, but my laptop doesn't like MS Word, just didn't work. So I found OpenOffice and now I am seeking all the tutorials I can. If you have videos on formatting in OpenOffice, I'm here for it!

[mochizada]

It's SOOO Beautiful! I absolutely love it and can't wait for the story to keep going :D

[LoveandLiveShow]

This is a great tutorial. New here, and I learned a lot.

[dannymacphee]

Hey, thanks for this video! I'm definitely looking to do this someday soon but have a question. Once you create your book does it mean that Barnes and Noble would then have the rights to the content in your book? Or would a person still be able to one day use their content to give to a different publisher to see is they will actually publish it? Also, could you possibly use the book you created as a manuscript to give to other publishers? I would appreciate any information you could provide. Again, thank you for this video. It gets me excited to try to get some of my writing in print.
Best wishes and a happy new years to you 😊

[grocerygoat]

Hi Dawn. Thank you for posting this video. It's been helpful to me while I'm playing around with B&N Press. I might delve into a self-published book at some point.

By the way, is a copy of your book The Elf & Goblin for sale? I'd be interested in reading it.
Thank you for your continued videos.

[TheGoldDogWhistle]

I would like to know what to use for the edition description, the long description, and the default book description.

[Miyabi-bkvi]

Great video! How much is the shipping?