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I can’t even begin to count the number of times that we’ve heard people say they didn’t want to self publish their book because they “weren’t interested in doing any marketing and promotion”. They expect their publisher to take care of all of that, and they want to spend all their time “being a writer”. [...]
Electronic publishing and eBooks are definitely the hot topic in the industry at the moment. Everyone seems to have heard about how Amanda Hocking, a previously unpublished author, is now selling thousands of self-published eBooks each month. That obviously isn’t the typical experience for e-publishers, but it does point out the profit potential in this [...]
The last few years have been very hard on the publishing world in general, and the collapse Borders is experiencing has made things even worse. As I looked around at the doom and gloom reports, it was nice to find a realistic, useful take on the state of the industry. I found that useful take [...]
When publishing, or self publishing a children’s book, there are numerous things to make decisions about along the way. Many of the decisions you make early on are going to have a serious impact on how successful (and expensive to produce) your book is down the line. We’ve gathered together 10 of the big decisions [...]
There is a great deal of confusion these days about what self publishing actually is. It doesn’t mean that you do every single part of the process yourself. It doesn’t mean your book wasn’t good enough to be made into a “proper” book. It doesn’t mean that your finished product will be a stapled copy [...]
