You can save a lot of money
on editing costs by doing a thorough revision and edit yourself first.
Quality
editing costs money, so definitely I would urge writers to investigate and ask for personal recommendations from authors who have successful indie books in the market.
Because
editing costs so much, I'm thinking that the more I can do for myself before handing my work to a professional might help with this cost.
However, editing is more expensive than you thought it would be (see Why
Does Editing Cost So Much?).
I'm sure developmental
editing cost more, but I don't know many authors who pay for that.
The cover may end up as one of your biggest expenditures, often second
behind editing costs, but it also pays the most dividends.
The main reason I still want a traditional publishing deal is because I know the help of a great editor would make my stories much better — and
editing costs thousands of dollars.
Aside
from editing costs, formatting and professional cover design (I would do all these things with or without a print edition), my costs are very small.
Use these proven techniques to save yourself time and money
on editing costs and end up with a cleaner manuscript in the process.
Third - party apps include Amazon Kindle for eBooks and the OfficeSuite viewer edition for reading office documents (upgrading to the pro version for document creation and
editing costs $ 9.99).
When BiblioCrunch's Miral Sattar's The Real Costs of Self - Publishing a Book ran at PBS MediaShift (preceded in fact, by her piece, Costs of Self - Publishing for the IndieRecon online «conference» event), a lot of hair - tearing and teeth - gnashing ensued over her high - end extreme - case examples of potential deep
developmental editing costs.
Without them, authors can not obtain objective feedback on their stories and could potentially end up paying more in
editing costs due to the level of content editing required to take the manuscript to where it needs to be before being published.
Copy edit costs are based on the word count and a sample of the manuscript.
You can save a lot of money on
editing costs by doing a thorough revision and edit yourself first (See my step - by - step tips for revision, Revise for Success, James Scott Bell's excellent guide, Revision & Self - Editing, and my Fire up Your Fiction).
Out of pocket expenses would include approximately $ 10 for an isbn, although you don't have to have one for either platform, cover art (which can be found for free if you have the ability to do the editing and graphics yourself) and
editing costs if you hire a professional editor.
Why would anyone spend months writing a book, researching a story, paying hundreds —
editing costs around US$ 1,000 for a standard sized book, cover design — a couple hundred, reviewing it, proofing it, sending out free copies — at your expense — to key reviewers — in the hopes that they -LSB-...]
It's impossible to
ballpark editing costs, because every book is different (style, length, level of completion).
But here's a blogger who understands and explains
why editing costs so much: Why Are Book Editors So Expensive??
That is especially true regarding e-books when there is no shipping cost, no storage cost, no printing cost and, if you are really honest about it,
no editing cost because the book has already been edited.
I say you can't afford not to, but below you'll find lots of advice for significantly reducing
your editing costs, with additional links at the end to concrete tips for approaching the revision process and for reducing your word count without losing any of the good stuff.
The cost of doing an audiobook will be based on factors including the length of your story and production and
editing costs.
Editing costs should be similar.
Here's a recent article of mine with concrete steps authors can take to prepare their manuscript better before submitting to an editor, to cut way down on
editing costs:
I just put a book out myself on Monday and I've already recouped my cover, formatting, and
editing costs... but I do have an established readership.
It seems that the efficiency gains of the electronic distribution would far outweigh the additional infrastructure and
editing costs.
And I hear publishers are doing a lot less promoting than they used to... Not to mention skimping on
editing costs, so on quality editing...
I applaud your statement that 100kers consider editing very important, but as a copyeditor I must chime in about
the editing costs mentioned in this article.
But because the article didn't mention the average manuscript length, I think that a lot of indie authors will be misled into thinking that
those editing costs are valid for full - length novels.
«Before Scout,» Jada says, «I was lucky to break even on cover and
editing costs, let alone paid promotions.