The key to these companies is that books are printed only when someone orders a copy neither author nor publisher is forced into buying a bunch of books and having to hawk them.
For those new to self-publishing, it's worth noting that CreateSpace is considered a subsidy press or author-services company. In 2009, after I published, Amazon merged BookSurge and CreateSpace under the CreateSpace brand name, so when I say Booksurge going forward, you should think CreateSpace. What I found was a veritable minefield with roads that forked in every direction and very few clear answers.Īfter much deliberation, I chose BookSurge, a print-on-demand (POD) outfit that Amazon owned along with the more no-frills POD operation CreateSpace. Then I started poking around blogs and message boards to get customer testimonials.
And you take home a bigger royalty than you'd normally get from a traditional publisher-if you sell any books.Īgainst the advice of my agent, I began perusing the big self-publishing companies' Web sites and evaluating what they had to offer. The basic premise is anyone can become a small publisher. I also learned that many small publishers were being wiped out by the "self-publishing revolution," a movement that's not so unlike the "citizen journalism" or bloggers' revolt of recent years that's had a major impact on mainstream media, including this publication. I could have tried to go for a small publisher, but I was told mine was "a bigger book" with more commercial aspirations and prestigious small publishers were interested in more literary tomes. Its short history is this: I worked on it for several years, acquired a high-powered agent, had some brushes with major publishers, then, crickets. " Knife Music." Contrary to what you might think based on my day job, it's not a cyber-thriller, though it is a mystery/thriller with a medical/legal slant. So, apologies to gadget-heads as I take a brief sojourn into the land of self-publishing, which has become a lot more high-tech than a lot of people realize.Ī few years ago I wrote a book. This is a column about cutting-edge electronics.
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For specific information about publishing an e-book, see my companion article, " How to self-publish an ebook." This article primarily addresses self-publishing a print book, though many of the tips apply to e-books as well.
Note to readers: I originally published the article back in 2008 and have updated it a few times, most recently on June 13, 2012.
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