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Which sells best: major houses, ebook, or self-publishing?

“What kind of book do you want to sell?” has to be the first question. I’m interested here in nonfiction. That’s because self-publishers don’t publish fiction. It’s almost impossible for them to sell, and I want to compare all three since we can now dip into all three ponds, two directly and the third by [...]

Monday December 9th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, speaking, writer, writing | Comments Off

7 solutions for submission snarls for ebooks and CreateSpace

For the past couple of years I’ve been trying to eliminate all the expenses one encounters when compiling and publishing an “open” book. Those are the books that CreateSpace, Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and Scribd will accept from you, prepare, and market. Their part is free ($25 or so for CreateSpace). As I’ve found free-arounds I [...]

Monday October 28th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, Lulu, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, product developer, publishing, research, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off

Eight ways you can correct book errors in print!

We’ve just published a book (The Art of School Boarding) that probably reached the printer (McNaughton-Gunn) yesterday. I’ll double check tomorrow to be sure the text we sent and the artwork (from Pakistan) are there. It used to be that once a book reached the paper or hard back printer (here, to Saline, Michigan, from [...]

Monday September 23rd, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | Comments Off

What should the insides of your book look like?

Since you’ll start thinking about the inside layout and format as you are writing the book, take a quick look at my blog from a few weeks back, Don’t write dumb; read five more books very similar to yours first. You’ll see that what you want in your book is hiding inside the five or [...]

Friday August 2nd, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | Comments Off

Your book’s back cover must be created early and properly

Back covers used to be almost the first place book buyers would look to see what was inside the book they had in hand, in a bookstore, at a convention stall, in the library, or from a colleague’s bookshelf. Was it worth flipping through the book’s pages? What could you get out of it? Would [...]

Monday July 29th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, Google, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, product developer, publishing, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, writer, writing | Comments Off

Our “best practices” for general market book publishing in mid-2013

Isn’t the idea to get your book out right now so the words are available for immediate purchase by others? Your PDF ebook downloads first, the Kindle-Nook kind of reader ebooks can see light in minutes once their submission is completed. And your core printed paperback, plus CreateSpace’s version, are a week or two behind. [...]

Thursday July 25th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Apple, B&N, book, book writing, BookBaby, CreateSpace, Diesel, digital publishing, DOC, e-book, editing, Google, HTML, iPad, Kevin McLaughlin, Kindle, Kobo, Lightning Source, Lulu, Mac, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, PDF, poetry, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, short story, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, Sony, writer, writing | Comments Off

I flat out love the open publishing system…

I flat out love the open publishing system where you can send a book to six or seven publishers and it’ll be available in a day, or a few, to anybody who wants to know what you want to share. Not that I think, with exceptions, that the self-pub, do-it-yourselfers are going to be able [...]

Wednesday July 10th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | Comments Off

How to find the precise book subject that others want to buy

I particularly liked a posting by Rob Carver who suggested that writers simply talk to the ultimate buyers in their market to see what they want to read and buy. (This was part of a very interesting discussion in the Linkedin Group called Ebooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content Publishing.) Getting new book [...]

Friday June 14th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, article, article selling, article writing, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, Google, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, magazine article, newspaper article, niche publishing, novel, product developer, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, seminars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, speaking, writer, writing | Comments Off

Your book’s cover is its own best salesperson!

Your book only needs three kinds of covers, but they can all be designed from the same model. 1. Your bound books will require a full cover, meaning a front, a spine, and a back. (In the rare case you produce a cloth-covered book–a hardcover book–the needs are the same except that you might also [...]

Monday May 20th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, Blurb, book, book writing, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, iPad, Lightning Source, Lulu, niche publishing, non-fiction book, novel, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, seminars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | Comments Off

(#5) Your book needs a description, a price, and your bio

#5 in our “how to publish your own book” series focuses on a description of your book, its price, and your biography to list in your book “open” publishing listing. Since the submission form requires all three items to have your book published free, or almost free, at Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, iPad, CreateSpace, Scribd, and [...]

Monday April 29th, 2013 in , Amazon, ancillary publishing, article writing, book, book writing, cookbook, CreateSpace, digital publishing, e-book, editing, Google, Kindle, Lightning Source, Lulu, non-fiction book, novel, poetry, pubit, publisher, publishing, Scribd, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writer, writing | Comments Off

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