Well, this is something I’ve had to work up to talking about. There is so much conflicting information out there about self-publishing that it’s not even funny.
My Own Self-Publishing Journey — Part Three
This is actually the closest thing I have to a holiday/end-of-the-year message for you all.
I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, unless you happen to want to change when a new year comes. So change, already. Right? 🙂
Hi. Well, I was going to read you more out of my journals, but I seem to have misplaced them in the mess in my office. So I’m just going to tell you what happened in 2011, I think it was end of 2011.
I started to notice things that Amazon was doing that really disturbed me in the sense that Bezos was buying up all these companies.
My Own Self-Publishing Journey – Part Two
This one is called “Exaggerated Success: Part One.” After I published my second book under my newly formed publishing imprint, I continued to be astonished at how well the book managed to sell throughout the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011. In fact, both books were selling like hotcakes.
The ‘No B.S. Guide’ to Self-Publishing — Part Six
This continues our series from the end of Part Five.
The distribution part
As a POD published author and a self-published author, the biggest hurdle you face to getting your product placed in bookstores is the infeasibility of allowing your books to be returned for a complete refund if they aren’t sold. Not to mention the penalty you as the publisher get socked with for shipping costs. The alternative is for the bookseller to destroy the books. Both a financial waste and hardly an eco-conscious approach. But it’s been standard practice for a long, long time. Unfortunately, booksellers continue to insist upon doing this and traditional publishers continue to follow this practice, cranking out large print runs instead of finding ways to use modern technology to create new solutions.