Self-Publish Your Book On a Shoestring!
It appears that Web 2.0 and book publishing have gotten married. There are now self-publishing internet based services that transform a user’s work into a professional, typeset book! There are many varieties and packages to suit any scale of author. Most allow you to download software to self-arrange your title pages and the print layout of your book.
You can get a few pressed and that’s it, a few at a time over time, or up to 15,000! OR, if you’re on a budget (ie; haven’t hit it big yet!) you can simply create the virtual book online and folks can order it directly through the site. They will press your book one order at a time!
What aspiring writer needs to risk publisher rejection anymore? If you’re an author with an idea you believe in, you can write, publish, and promote your book yourself!
I find this trend of self-publishing very exciting. It could greatly broaden the limitations of what’s available at your local bookstore. Below are 4 of the most well-known self-publishing sites, you should check them out if you’re a writer. Below those links I’ve added the URI to an informative article from Reuters.
lulu.com
i-universe
xlibris.comOther Recommended Reading on the subject:
Printing books online: an author you can’t refuse | Lifestyle | Reuters
Great info!! My daughter wants to publish a book of her poetry. She hasn’t quite finished it yet, but we’ve been looking at Lulu to do so…..no need to deal with rejection letters!! Just publish yourself!!!
Hope your day is a good one!
Jessica
I love the info, and I imagine that will be helpful to a lot of folks. But I would be reluctant about self-publishing. In my world of school performing, “authors” get paid four times what a “storyteller” gets paid, by virtue of that credibility being published gives them. HOWEVER, librarians I know scoff at self-published books (vanity press). They tell me they don’t buy self-published books for the school library unless they have the proper library binding. They don’t hire self-published authors very often either.
Depends on why you want books published, and where you want to go with it. And, honestly, some authors made it big after self-publishing their books. Hank the Cowdog is one series of kids books that was self-published first.
Becoming a published author is kind of a “Catch-22″ isn’t it? The publishers don’t seem to want you unless you have a “name” and you can’t get a “name” unless you get published.
Think I’ll buy a lottery ticket. My chances of winning that are about as great as my chance of getting published! Especially since I won’t submit anything for fear of rejection (ROFL).
I’ve always wanted to be publsihed, but if you’re self-publishing, isn’t it more of a vanity enterprise than anything else? If you’ can’t get a publisher to invest in you, what chance do you have of being commerically successful?