The Preservation Foundation E-Books

The Preservation Foundation was incorporated in 1976.  In 1997 we published our first story on our website.  Since then we've published more than 1,500.  Now, in 2011, we have published our first E-Book.  Actually, we published five - a series by 90-year-old Mary McIntosh entitled Mary's Diary, A Secret Journal of the 1930s.  The books cover the years 1935 - 1939, one volume for each year.  

Click here to see them at Amazon or click here to see them at Barnes and Noble.  You can also buy one (thank you very much) or sample one free.  You don't need a Kindle or a Nook to read one.  You can download a free app that will let you read it on your computer or other internet-connected device (I Pad/Phone/Touch, Blackberry, Android, etc.).

Why publish your manuscript as an E-Book?  Simple.  It will be sold by two of the world's largest booksellers - Amazon, whose hardware device is the Kindle, and Barnes and Noble, with the Nook. Once published on their websites your book can be seen, bought, and read by almost anyone on their computer, their mobile phone, or other internet connected device.  And you can be published soon, not years from now or never.

Do you need The Preservation Foundation as your publisher?  Couldn't you publish your own book?  The answer is yes and no. The programming for Kindle is not the same as the programming for the Nook.  I spend many weeks learning how to put Mary's books on Kindle before I was able to get a satisfactory layout completed.  And Nook, although similar, was different enough so that I had to learn a new system.  It all took time and hard work.

So, yes, you could do that for yourself and eliminate the need for a publisher.  If you are familiar with HTML programming and have good computer skills then I'd say give it a try.

But if you don't have those skills or the time to acquire them then you will need a publisher.

So why choose us?  What makes us different?  

If you check the web for E-Book publishers you will find hundreds out there.  Some are honest and charge you for their work up front. Most do a good job but be prepared to pay for the time and  expertise they give you.  Others are just a new variety of Vanity Press that will promise the moon but deliver very little other than requests for money.  

We charge no fees for publishing your work.  We simply agree to accept a split of any royalties that may be earned.  The only up-front costs an author might have would be for an ISBN number ($125.00, but unnecessary in most cases) or any charges by a third party for copy editing or rewriting that the author can't or won't do for herself.  

So we are willing to gamble that our time and expertise spent in making your book available to the worldwide E-Book market will eventually pay off in royalties for us both.

Our fundamental reason for existing is to "preserve the extraordinary works of 'ordinary' people."  Nonfiction books, and especially biography and autobiography, will be our primary focus.  Beyond that we will also publish a limited number of fiction books we judge to be outstanding.  We want to publish books that will help preserve for future readers the personal insights and wisdom of our fine family of writers. 

Now that I'm retired from my day job with Smith Barney I look forward to spending much of my time building a list of quality books for our E-publishing line.  Maybe yours will be one of them. 

So if you have a book that is ready for publication, write us.  Together we can decide if publication by The Preservation Foundation is a good fit for both of us.

Richard Loller
Nashville, Tennessee
March 15, 2011

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