Publishing information for authors

Now that direct on-line sales, eBooks, and publishing on demand have opened up new distribution channels for self-publishing, many aspiring authors are wondering if it’s still worth the effort to pursue publishing in the traditional way or if they should go with self-publishing. There’s a lot to consider in making that decision. via Novel Rocket: [...]

The whole e-book market is rapidly evolving, and a lot of self-publishing companies are offering e-book deals bundled into their print book publishing packages, which makes them harder to break out and evaluate. It’s all quite complicated, and in an effort to sort through the confusion, I’ve decided to offer a few basic tips and [...]

I recently read a great list from LLReader by Shannon Yarborough, “My Own 10 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing.” Shannon brings up a lot of good points, and I have some things to add to some of what she says that go a bit beyond just leaving comments at the blog site, so I [...]

The dirty little secret of the Print On Demand (POD) industry is that most of us use the same service to do the printing, and we all distribute our books through Ingram. So the quality of our books and the places to which we sell them are identical. The only real differences are the prices [...]

EXCERPTS Well, here’s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010. Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with [...]

Book covers are hard to design and involve being both eye-catching and telling of the story’s narrative. For this reason, template designs are a sad joke to anybody with design experience. Much like using clip art to illustrate your story, using a template has the very opposite effect that an author is probably seeking. Rather [...]

A good illustrator isn’t necessarily expensive, there are plenty of extremely talented “starving artists” out there that keep the playing field leveled. Unless you’re looking for a big name in illustration, you’ll find prices to be within a standard range.

A Acknowledgments Recognition or honor given to people who have influenced the book being published or who have made a difference in the life of the author or a section of a book containing such recognition. A term for the section, typically in the front of a book, in which an author will recognize or [...]

To self publish or try and go the traditional route – that is the burning question these days. For the next few weeks, I’ll be interviewing KC Frantzen about her new children’s book coming out in July 2011 and we’ll be talking about the wonderful, magnificent, May, the K9 Spy and her adventures.

Without getting into the technical jargon of digital image reproduction, knowing the general difference between these two types of images is important. Basically, bitmap images are defined by pixels, dots within a certain amount of space. Depending on the pixel count per inch, the image quality can vary greatly. Bitmap images lose quality if they [...]

“POD is neither a publishing model nor a brand-new publishing paradigm (as advocates of fee-based POD services sometimes insist it is). It’s merely a technology, employed in different ways by different publishers to accomplish a variety of goals.”