Amazon, and their eBook publishing partner, Kindle, have turned the publishing industry on its head. What had been an agonizing slog all new authors had to undergo before getting their work into print has now become, dare I say, simple, inexpensive (as in having virtually no up-front costs) and sure. Newly published books, some taking years to write, don't wither and die within a few weeks of being printed. The first four books written and published through normal channels by the author of Self-Publishing Simplified taught him that, for mid-list authors, the major publishing houses offer no advantages. With CreateSpace and Kindle a newly published work will be available for potential readers to purchase for generations Self-Publishing Simplified will take the reader through a step by step guide into the world of print-on-demand and the very new world of eBooks.