Since you are responsible for publishing, the proofreading and copyediting work is yours. The book sent for publishing will be published exactly the way you sent without any corrections. That’s why self published books are not treated as professional by lots of people since these works are published with grammatical and spelling mistakes. Don’t let [...]
Exporting PDF from InDesign There are two ways of exporting into PDF from InDesign. The first one and the one I recommend uses the built in export features that InDesign has; the second one uses Abobe Distiller. Taking in to consideration that InDesign was made to export to PDF we will use the built in [...]
Book publishing has not changed since 1947. The business model is long overdue for alteration. The state of the Economy is not the problem; it is just the catalyst or final straw. Change would have come eventually. The large publishers will consolidate, downsize and disappear. Agents will have few publishers to sell to. Brick-and-mortar bookstores [...]
The large (NY) publishers have been around much longer than the smaller publishers. When we started in the business, the rules were already made. We saw the huge advances, were saddled with slow-paying stores and we suffered from returns. The worst quirk in the industry was the concept of selling seasons; three per year. They [...]
Brick-and-mortar bookstores are on the ropes. The independents are doing 8% of the business and sales are decreasing. Remember when they had 100% of the market? Borders is thought by many to be terminal. Traffic at walk-in stores is down and impulse buying decreases proportionately with the lessening traffic flow. If the bookstores go out [...]
You might be discouraged to have your book published because of the time and money that editing entails. You might fear that after your book is subjected to the hands of editors and lay out artists- it will not look or read the way you want it to. In response these sentiments, Adobe Systems developed [...]
If you don’t know about copyright concept as an author, you can then be very sure that you still have quite a lot to learn in this regard. The copyright law is one law that every singular author or freelancer should learn well about. The success of your online author activities is actually dependent on [...]
PubIt! Digital Publishing Platform was finally released and is now open to publishers and self-published authors.
This recent announced from Amazon can only make self-publishing authors and publishers happy because they have a new distribution channel for promoting their books. Taking in consideration that Kindle are sales accelerating rapidly and Amazon customers are now buying more e-books than hardcover books. There is no excuse for not having your printed version of the book in Kindle format.
In present world when people once decide, they do not have patient to wait for long. Previously selling your book was not that difficult you simply had to make an announcement about your written book on the given subject and interested people bought their copies. But now in this competitive world as the writers has [...]
