My experience with self-publishing a book, with Lambert and Notion Press.
- Interestingly, both experiences were quite quick and easy.
- Lambert charges nearly 10 times more, but do worldwide distribution. Notion Press does India-only distribution, but will do worldwide if you buy 50 author copies. Which comes to nearly the same amount of money as buying 3 copies from Lambert!
- Both publishers accepted the print-ready PDF from overleaf. Lambert sized the page down to fit, from US letter to 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Notion Press wanted US letter size. Notion Press cover designer was quite nice.
- Notion Press online sales page at notionpress.com/store/ was much more polished than Lambert's morebooks.shop
- Ebook publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing, or with Draft2Digital and so on - did not work, since the equations in my pdf did not convert correctly from pdf to epub / mobi with their online tools. But text only content in doc/rtf format works fine with their tools.
- The recommended way to create epub / mobi was via tools to convert to html or rtf first, but the tools stuttered and I did not pursue it further. Details in another post.
- Finally just created a pdf file with A5 size, which is reasonably well formatted to read on a Kindle or other ebook reader, as detailed in another post.
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