Announce the release of your book, reach your audience, and build positive word of mouth by sending out Advance Reading Copies (ARC) to reviewers and columnists before it is available to the public. Put your book directly into the hands of the media to create pre-release buzz in anticipation of your book being available for sale. Publishing a book [...]
by Karen Jayne Everything always takes longer to complete than you think it will. This has been especially true for me in regards to finishing my first book. I was done with the final draft edits. It was time to sign off on the product and move full steam ahead to printing copious copies and [...]
by Kajette Solomon With thousands of self-published titles in the marketplace, not to mention competing with titles from traditional publishing, how do you make your book stand out? Bridgeman Art Library, a fine art and cultural image resource with over 40 years of experience licensing images to the publishing industry, has a few tips to get [...]
by Nancy L. Preston Well, it’s done and I’m such a proud parent. I’ve birthed my book; not in nine months, but nine long years from conception to publication. Oh yes, nine long years of arduous labor, but the outcome was worth the pain. My baby has arrived and I’m euphoric as I strut around the house basking [...]
By Marcia Yudkin A decade ago, during a seminar on getting a book published, I cited the average advance from a major publisher and the average time it took to write a book. A guy in the back row did the math. "What - that's not much better than minimum wage!" he objected. A [...]
Author-originated self-publishing has produced some nasty con-artists. These clever crooks are ready to prey upon aspiring authors with all kinds of glorious promises about what they can do to make your book the next best seller. The warning “buyer-beware” certainly applies-they will tell you whatever you want to hear about your wonderful book just [...]
Here’s a bit of book publishing history. Once upon a time during the colonial days in America, stationary stores and book venders would pay for the printing of an author’s manuscript under the house name of the bookseller with the books being sold in their stores. Back then, books traveled along with the official [...]
by John F. Harnish I just finished reading The Franklin Affair, a novel by Jim Lehrer published as a Random House trade paperback with a cover price of $13.95 – the hardcover version was priced at $23.95, available at the discounted price of $16.76 on Amazon.com or as a trade paperback for only $10.74. But in the here-and-now of [...]
