Some authors could be picked up, Ogorek believes, from the ranks of writers who'd paid the publishers to produce their books under in - house self - publishing imprints: so called «farm teams» of authors willing to underwrite the costs
of getting their books into print.
I think too that people considering going POD or other non-traditional pub offerings forget that it's not just a question
of getting your book into print but actually selling it!
Most of my time these days is spent writing, teaching and consulting with authors about the somewhat confusing process
of getting their books into print.
Not exact matches
He is author
of two
books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing:
Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh
printing, has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated
into nine languages, and peaked at # 17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list.
After reading several
of the posts on the «interpretation
of mythical texts
into a
book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to
get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a
book that he / she / it wanted to have in
print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a
book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum
Yes, my little 8 - page guide turned
into 184 pages
of detailed instructions, screen shots, publishing tips, and suggestions for helping you
get published,
get your
book into print, and ultimately,
get it
into people's hands.
I played around with Nutella so much, trying to
get the right consistency that wouldn't break my blender: / I can't wait to give this one a go, along with that fluffy loaf you have going on up there:) I would wait a bit and have pictures
of us with friends and family from the wedding
printed into a
book!
P.O.D (
Print on Demand) has also revolutionised how indie authors can
get their
books into the hands
of potential readers.
As Village
Book's Publishing Director, Brendan Clark has noted, «our publishing program brings together flexible project management, high - quality on - demand book production, and the expertise of local professionals, all with the unified goal of helping authors get their books into print.&ra
Book's Publishing Director, Brendan Clark has noted, «our publishing program brings together flexible project management, high - quality on - demand
book production, and the expertise of local professionals, all with the unified goal of helping authors get their books into print.&ra
book production, and the expertise
of local professionals, all with the unified goal
of helping authors
get their
books into print.»
Praise for the First Edition
of The Essential Guide to
Getting Your
Book Published (Previously published as Putting Your Passion
Into Print)
It's
getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move
into print and even bookstores without the help
of a publisher, and the spread
of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent
of Americans age 18 to 29 read
books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who
get the format and pricing right.
This new updated 2nd edition now has more options for those on a tighter budget, teaches you how to
get your
book into print (and why that helps selling e-books), tells you why you should start a mailing list immediately, and shares the pros and cons
of going exclusive with Amazon.
Instead, I'm putting my effort
into getting my back - list
of books back in
print as e-
books.
Pam Dover [00:15:05] Another thing a lot
of authors are using
print on demand for is to
get their
book out
into the marketplace, and they're being picked up by some
of the larger trade publishing houses.
Many authors talk about the challenges
of just
getting their
books into print.
Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series
of initiatives designed to help indie authors
get their
print books into bookstores, one
of the hurdles self - published authors face in terms
of developing a large audience and one
of the main advantages traditionally published authors enjoy.
Australian self - publishing guru Emily Craven,
of E-
Book Revolution, has made a wonderful video that explains how she used Pressbooks to produce the PDFs she needed to
get her
book into a
Print - on - Demand service, meaning that her
books are not just available as ebooks, but as paper
books too.
One
of the on - going problems with indie publishing is that it's been all but impossible to
get print copies
of your
book into bricks - and - mortar bookstores.
If you're looking for a concise guide to
getting your
book out of a Word file and into print, 10 Steps to Publish & Succeed: How to Put Your Best Book Forward by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth read
book out
of a Word file and
into print, 10 Steps to Publish & Succeed: How to Put Your Best
Book Forward by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth read
Book Forward by Jill Ronsley is definitely worth reading.
Publishers Weekly How to Create a Successful Self - Published Children's
Book Self - publishing a children's book isn't all fun and games Digital Book World Blurb Does Deal With Ingram to Help Indie Authors Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-
Book Self - publishing a children's
book isn't all fun and games Digital Book World Blurb Does Deal With Ingram to Help Indie Authors Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-
book isn't all fun and games Digital
Book World Blurb Does Deal With Ingram to Help Indie Authors Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-
Book World Blurb Does Deal With Ingram to Help Indie Authors
Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-.
Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-
Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series
of initiatives designed to help indie authors
get their print books into bookstores, -LSB-.
get their
print books into bookstores, -LSB-
into bookstores, -LSB-...]
That may change as more so - called digital natives progress
into higher education and as ebook reader technology
gets better, but for now, 60 %
of students would rather pay for a low - cost
printed book than use a free digital version.
As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't
get my
books into such stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «
printed in» on the last verso page
of my
books proves they were
printed by Amazon's CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.
She talked about her arrangement with IngramSpark which
gets print editions
of her
books into bookstores — still not an easy feat for indies — and revealed that she works now without a literary agent, basically hiring only a foreign - rights agent.
We're actually
getting ready to announce some exciting new news about some
of our digital
books going
into real trade paper
print runs.
If you check out ANN's thread about the Ipad App, Ed Chavez from Vertical steps in and explains the difficulties involved with
getting digital releases on multiple devices - every device has it's own coding / programming / delivery system [so you can't just plunk in your high - res PDF for your
print edition], which can sometimes be time consuming or restrictive depending on their policites [the Playstation Network one was rather icky by the sounds
of it - they only want chapters, not full
books, and they want the comics cut up
into a panel by panel slideshow].
By downloading,
printing, and studying the following mind map examples, you'll
get a better understanding
of leading authors tend to be mind mappers; mind mapping is the easiest way to organize your ideas
into a logical table
of contents for writing your
book.
Having your own ISBN number
gets your
book into Books in Print, which is the world's largest catalogue of b
Books in
Print, which is the world's largest catalogue
of booksbooks.
I agree that the Espresso machine is truly amazing and allowing more
of us to
get our
books into print.
The process
of changing your manuscript
into a
print - ready
book can be daunting, but we guide you to
get the job completed professionally.
After writing dozens
of query letters,
getting rejections from agents, and only being offered a deal with a publisher if I put a few thousand dollars upfront, I was frustrated and thought I'd never
get these
books into print.
After I'd read and re-read that
book and taken copious notes on it, I set out to research a dozen or so companies that are in the business
of helping authors
get their work
into print.
Which you should be doing
of course, and if you have some brilliant strategies for turning your
book into a STORY by connecting it with some current events or burning media issue, and if you have some events planned around the launch, then you should probably have both the ebook and
print version ready (
getting the files right takes a LOT longer than you think, always give yourself a few months
of extra space before you launch).
Lulu's
print on demand (POD) solutions make publishing your own
book quick and easy.Create a
book in minutes, publish with the click
of a mouse, distribute, sell and
print books to order.It's that simple.Trying to make a photo
book?Want to make your own calendar?Our easy - to - use online publishing tool allows you to publish and
print your own high - quality photo
book or calendar in minutes.Want to convert your
book into an eBook?We've
got you covered with our easy to use eBook publishing tools.With Lulu you can self publish and distribute your eBook in EPUB format making it compatible with the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and more.Not looking to make a
book or
print a
book?Lulu has a great selection
of books, photo
books and eBooks for you to buy.With our great prices and large selection, shopping for
books at Lulu is an easy choice!
With the launch
of their third series to incorporate a
print or digital
book — an actual stand - alone title within a series, not an enhanced interactive format — that also happens to include an online gaming world that corresponds to the
book, readers are taking to the series from both sides
of the
book: those who love to read and are intrigued by the game aspect, as well as those reluctant readers who
get drawn
into the
books because
of their involvement in the online game.
In total, they
printed more than 4,000 advanced copies
of the debut novel, as they knew that
getting the
book into a lot
of readers» hands was a key way to help make it a breakout hit.
That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well,
get works
into the hands
of readers who might never have had access to those
books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional
print ways.
If
getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to
get your
books on the shelves
of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've
got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or
get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and
get paid 80 %
of your
print book's list price (minus the cost
of POD
printing) with your
print - on - demand
book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which
gets you right
into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.
The first is that it is currently very difficult for a writer to
get a self - published
print version
of a
book into the brick - and - mortar stores (such as Target, Barnes and Noble, and Costco) where readers
of print books typically buy them.
And in the fall
of 2012 Allyson Longuiera and I taught a
Print on Demand workshop to help writers get their books into print and learn how to sell
Print on Demand workshop to help writers
get their
books into print and learn how to sell
print and learn how to sell them.
In fact, I was recently rejected as an emerging writer before even
getting into the running because my publisher had a
print run
of less than 350 for my last
book.
Our technology allows you to quickly
get your
book into print and ultimately
into the hands
of potential readers.
The restriction
of being with them is that you're pretty much only on the Amazon platform, although they do
print books and they are making efforts to
get them
into the shops.
I don't know
of I will turn it also
into a
print book but this article has
gotten me to consider the possibility.
When indie publishing evangelist and best selling author J.A. Konrath
got the rights back to the first six
books of his Hyperion - published Jack Daniels series, he asked if we could give each
of the volumes a unified, premium ebook and
print interior design that could carry forward
into new
books featuring featuring the seasoned, brash Chicago detective at the heart
of his series.
After all, life is sometimes entirely too busy to do it all and be everything we need to be in order to
get that
book off
of our laptop and
into the world in the form
of actual, beautiful
printed books.
Sally is also running a CROWDFUNDING campaign to
get her ebooks
into print, improve the audio quality
of her talk show, fund the next
books covers and cover other expenses on Patreon.
Because ebook distribution doesn't involve the actual
printing of books,
getting your ebook out
into the world takes less time.
There is no shortage
of authors writing
books and thanks to the multitude
of platforms to create an ebook or a
print - on - demand physical
book, there is also no shortage
of ways an author can go about
getting his work
into the hands
of the reading public, even while bypassing the traditional publishing industry altogether.
It meant that any
of us could
get in the door simply by paying $ 25.00 to CreateSpace and
getting our
book into print.
It's a ubiquitous device and people are discovering comic
books on the iPad in a way that they probably haven't before. Maybe we're talking about lapsed readers, people who fell out
of the habit
of going to comic
book stores for whatever reason, and they've stumbled upon the comiXology app and
got back
into the habit
of reading comics. And some
of those people who were lapsed readers have migrated back to the
print versions as well.»