I’m Just Sharing

I’ve written one book, and ended up self publishing it. Personally, I think most ways are easy to do it, but many people seem to freak when thinking about giving it a shot.

A friend of mine sent this link from the Online Education Database’s blog iLibrarian titled How To Publish Your Own Book that was pretty good, and gives one way of doing it, along with some writing tips. It’s only abou5 five minutes long, so it’s well worth watching.

Another article you can look at that might give a little bit of insight on book publishing was written by a guy named Shawn Fawcett, titled Book Publishing: Problems With The Traditional Model, as he talks about problems people sometimes have with publishers if they’re hoping to make money from their books.

What I did with my book was, after multiple edits, take it to a professional printing company and told them I wanted it to look like a paperback. I gave them a pdf copy, selected a white cover with dark blue printing, which kept the cover simple, and for around $1,200 I got 300 copies of my book. Now, let’s think about this for a quick moment. True, I didn’t get a fancy cover with colors and images, but because of that I got 300 books that are mine, that I can sell for whatever I want (ever give a couple away for free every once in awhile as promotional material), and I even have an ISBN number which means I can list it on Amazon or wherever and call myself a publisher.

Options are always nice, and information on how to do it is pretty nice also, isn’t it? I’m not going to hawk my book now, but I am going to hawk the one below:

Why We Want You To Be Rich by Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki