Self Publishing a Book Education
Discover the Business of Self Publishing
What is Self-Publishing?
Self-publishing
in its simplest forms is YOU dealing directly with the editor,
book designer, printer and then handling the marketing and
distribution of your book. Along with all the responsibility
and costs, you get to go to market sooner and have complete
control of your book.
Although,
self-publishers have responsibility for everything it does
not mean they have to perform every task themselves. They
do, however, need to make sure every task gets done. Whatever
work the self publisher can't do themselves, they have to
simply outsource the work. Therefore, SELF-PUBLISHING have
many aspects, according to the individual's abilities and
time constraints.
There's
a main difference between publishing and writing a book.
Writing is an ART, whereas publishing is a business.
Know
your SELF PUBLISHING options.
Discover
the difference between vanity publishers, subsidy publishers,
book packagers, pod publishers and self-publishing.
As with
any business venture you must educate yourself to have the
best possible chance of success. There's plenty misinformation
of self-publishing floating around. Education is a powerful
piece of the 'Success Factor.' You wouldn’t think of
becoming a book writer without first learning about book writing.
The
aspect of Publishing a Book is no different. This web site
about Self Publishing Made Easy is a great starting place
for your publishing education. Remember, Knowledge truly is
Power.
In general,
the word vanity publisher , refers to the publisher
(commonly called a book producer) who prints and binds a book
in medium to large quantities at the author's expense.
A subsidy
publisher is considered (a joint venture publisher, a
co-op publisher, or a partner publisher) who also receives
payment from the author to print and bind a book. Unlike the
vanity publisher, they may share a portion of the cost, as
well as other services such as editing, distribution, warehousing,
and some degree of marketing.
Book
packaging is different from both subsidy and
vanity publishing. Some companies as their business specialize
in book packaging. A book packager operates as an independent
contractor to produce a predetermined number of your books.
All the books belong to you. Book packagers work for a pre-set
fee, and all the profits are yours.
POD
is exactly what it says: Print on Demand. It means
the books are printed when someone orders them, and they aren't
printed unless someone orders them. After the books are printed
and sold usually quarterly the POD publisher pays the author
royalties from their book sales. They aren't stocked (except
in micro quantities) in distributor warehouses. Which is a
good thing except when bookstores look them up on their databases
they often find that they have to be "backordered?"
That is changing with Ingram's new virtual stocking policy
for POD books.
The term
"self-publishing" is usually referring
to publishing that is handled completely by the author.
Self-publishing requires the author to undertake the entire
cost of publication. The writer would handle all book preparation,
packaging, marketing, distribution, storage, etc.
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