Selfpublishing Manual: How To Write, Print, And Sell Your Own Book

The Selfpublishing Manual Is The Oldest (Ten Revised Editions Since 1979), Newest (Recently Updated), Largest (464 Pages), Best Reference (60 Pages Of Resources), Bestselling (122,000 Copies In Print) Book On Publishing. It Is Highly Recommended By Everyone In The Industry.Book Publishing Demystifiedpublish Yourselfask Any Struggling Writer For An Assessment Of The Book Publishing Industry And The Response Will Range From Overpowering To Impossiblecertainly Not Easy To Sell. And, That Is Partially True. With The Larger Publishers Concentrating On Potential Best Sellers By Wellknown Authors, It Is Virtually Impossible For The New Writer To Catch The Attention Of A Publisheror Even An Agent. But The Situation Is Not Hopeless; On The Contrary, There Is An Easy Solution. The Answers Are In The Selfpublishing Manual, How To Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book By Dan Poynter. His Crashcourse In Publishing Demystifies The Whole Process Of Book Production And Marketing. He Shows Authors How To Take Charge Of Their Work And Publish Themselves.When You Publish Your Own Book, You Not Only Get To Market Sooner, You Make Three To Four Times More Than Standard Royalties. Even If You Already Have A Publisher, The Selfpublishing Manual Will Show What You Can Do To Increase Sales. In Fact, This Book Will Be Your Constant Reference On Writing, Printing, Publishing, Marketing And Distributing Books.With Cookbooklike Instructions, Poynter Recommends And Shows How To Cut Out The Middlemen By Doing It Yourself. You Will Learn How To Select A Salable Subject, Gather Material And Break Down The Book Into Easytoattack Pieces. You Will Discover How To Find The Right Printer, Promote Your Book Inexpensively, Market Your Book Cleverly And Distribute Your Book Efficiently.(Chapter One) Your Publishing Options You Can Be A Published Authoreveryone Wants To Write A Book. Most People Have The Ability, Some Have The Drive, But Few Have The Organization. Therefore, The Greatest Need Is For A Simple System, A Road Map. The Basic Organizational Plan In This Book Will Not Only Provide You With Direction, It Will Promote Drive And Expose Ability No One Thought Existed.Magazines Devoted To Businesspeople, Sales Reps And Opportunity Seekers Are Littered With Full Page Advertisements Featuring People With Fabulous Offers. Usually These People Discovered A Successful System Of Business In Sales, Real Estate Or Mail Order, And, For A Price, They Are Willing To Let The Reader In On Their Secret. To Distribute This Information, They Have Written A Book. Upon Close Inspection, One Often Finds That The Author Is Making More Money From The Book Than From The Revealed Original Enterprise. The Irony Is That Purchasers Get The Wrong Information; What The Reader Needs Is A Book On How To Write A Book.Writing A Book Is Easy! If You Can Voice An Opinion And Think Logically, You Can Write A Book. If You Can Say It, You Can Write It. Most People Have To Work For A Living And, Therefore, Can Spend Only A Few Minutes Of Each Day On Their Book. Consequently, They Can'T Keep The Whole Manuscript In Their Head. When Overwhelmed And Confused, It Is Easy To Quit The Project. The Solution Is To Break Up The Manuscript Into Many Small Easytoattack Chunks (And Never Start At Page One Where The Hill Looks Steepest). Then Concentrate On One Section At A Time And Do A Thorough Job On Each One.People Want To Know Howto And Whereto, And They Will Pay Well To Find It. The Information Industry, The Production And Distribution Of Ideas And Information As Opposed To Goods And Services, Now Amounts To Over Onehalf Of The Gross National Product. There Is Money In Information. To See How This Market Is Being Tapped By Books, Check The Best Seller Lists In The Back Of Publishers Weekly, Usa Today, The Wall Street Journal Or The New York Times.Your Best Sources For This Salable Information Are From Your Own Experience, Plus Research. Write What You Know. Whether You Already Have A