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Start Your Own Self-Publishing Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) | 
 enlarge | Author: Entrepreneur Press
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 325023
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1891984829
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.593
EAN: 9781891984822
ASIN: 1891984829
Publication Date: December 1, 2003
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Product Description
Learn the nitty-gritty, hands-on tasks, tips, and tricks of successful publishing. Their stories and hard-won experience smooth the road for those whose dream is to become a published author.
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 Nice step by step guide to sarting your own business as publisher March 19, 2009
Rick Johnson
Great step by step instruction manual about starting your own publishing business...nice and easy to read too.
One of the best how-to books I have read January 6, 2009
Vicki Claudio (Orlando, FL)
This is an excellent resource for anyone thinking of self-publishing a book, with good practical and technical advice. The chapter on choosing a printer is particularly good, as this is an area where it is easy to be overwhelmed by all the details and specifications. Even though we decided to go with a Print-on-Demand option, it is good to know these details, and it also gives a basis for comparing the various POD companies. The section on promotion and marketing is also very good.
The book also has several checklists and sample documents that have been very helpful to me in publishing my own forthcoming book, and I ordered a copy for a colleague, who has also benefited from it. I highly recommend this book.
 Start Your Own Self-Publishing Business July 17, 2007
Tami Brady (Calgary, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Start your Own Self-Publishing Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success is the self-publishers' complete guide to starting their own publishing company either to self publish their own books or with the intention of taking on other writers' works in addition to their own. This book discusses in detail print, electronic, and audio publications and is complete with lots of examples, helpful forms, and smart tips.
I liked Start your Own Self-Publishing Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success because it had all the information presented in a logical, well thought out, easy to understand manner without all the hype and author self promotion often found in other self-publication guides. I also found it extremely refreshing that this book's emphasis was on creating a quality publication rather than slapping some pages together, calling it a complete work, and then using clever advertising and blanket marketing techniques to get some poor reader to buy a copy.
Easy to Read April 14, 2007
Ivanka1925
I purchased several books on this topic. The information is helful but I find out that there is a lot more to learn the more I read. You may want to explore what other useful information you may find online. After reading on this topic I find same or similar info in the books. For instance: That POD is not going to be very profitable since, it prints only few copies at a time. (Also how will you know that the POD company is not cheating you and is accurately reporting purchases and your reinbursement?)
The dissapointment comes from the fact that many of these books tell you that if you want to start your own publishing company, you would need at least $5000 and then some more. POD then is the cheapest way to get your book out and yet as I read in these books, the least profitable since, you would have minimal control over the price etc. I guess you will have to find out what works for you.
 Adequate but Nothing Special August 3, 2006
Kenneth J. Dillon (Washington, D.C. USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a non-neophyte self-publisher, I have read several books like this. By a fair margin, Dan Poynter's offers the greatest value. This Entrepreneur Magazine book provides an adequate survey of the various steps you need to take to self-publish a book. But the authors lack the insight and humility that people who have actually gone through the travails of self-publishing would have. Instead, it relies on interviews with a scant four self-publishers, whose comments pop up in chapter after chapter. It reveals to you that getting a review in the New York Times Book Review could sell 10,000 of your books, then lets its favorite interviewee note a few pages further on that it's not likely that the Times will decide to review your self-published book, but send it anyway just in case.
Listen to me: trying to get reviews for a self-published book can be an exceedingly frustrating task. You can waste a lot of time, effort, and copies to no avail. Better advice: sift carefully through all the lists in this book but especially in Poynter's to find the few potential publications that have a real interest in your subject, then focus on them. No harm in sending a press release to everyone else, as is suggested in this book. And still your best shot at a solid review will come from personal connections or other unfair advantages you might have. Or sheer luck.
The underlying point: a self-publishing business makes little economic sense in the vast number of cases, partly because there are too many self-publishers, who just add to the amazing glut of books of all kinds that is driving the organized publishing industry crazy. For every success story, I will bet there are scores of disappointed self-publishers who sell a few dozen copies of their books every year. So what readers really need is not another book that tells you how to self-publish a book but rather one entitled: "Turn Your Crummy Self-Publishing Business into a Successful Independent Press".
Not easy.
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