I've seen a number of people post asking about how to publish a book. Having gone through it myself (Wylie Publishing) I've always told people it's not an easy thing to get a book published and there are all sorts of pitfalls that require a good agent to avoid. (Read the words "good agent" as another cost.)
Other issues abound in the publishing world like how publishers only want certain content (what's hot this week) and they want it done via a template they supply that pretty much dictates what the finished book will look like, it's length, image layouts, number of chapters and pages, etc. Someone said, "If Shakespeare were alive today he wouldn't be able to find a publisher for any of his work". Sadly that is probably true.
The long and short of it is that it?s a real bear of a task for a new writer to get published, regardless of how good he or she is at writing or even how popular the content may be. Until now that is. Amazon.com launched its new program for writers called ?Kindle Singles?. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1520181&highlight
In a nutshell it?s a repository for articles, books, even full length novels if you want that are sold in electronic format. Think Kindle Reader but an iPad, PC, even smart phones can access, buy and down load the works. Who can participate? Anyone with an Amazon account and $20 to set up a payment account (paperwork). What topics do they accept? Anything that is legal. (No, you can?t publish instructions to build nukes.) How do they set up pricing? They don?t, you set your price and they have different royalty scales based on the price you charge and the delivery cost. (A 100 Meg file costs more than a 10 meg file to deliver.) Basically you can price your content at 99 cents to 10 dollars and you decide where the price point is. You also provide a short description of what the content is and that is what the shopper will see. (It?s your advertizing, describe it well.)
How well does it work/sell? I don?t know, the program just started but after reading the details I am going to give it a shot with a short work just to test the water. I think that as electronic books become more popular this method of publishing has far too many advantages to ignore. We shall see and if anyone else in the forum decides to give it ago come on back and let us know what your results are.
Other issues abound in the publishing world like how publishers only want certain content (what's hot this week) and they want it done via a template they supply that pretty much dictates what the finished book will look like, it's length, image layouts, number of chapters and pages, etc. Someone said, "If Shakespeare were alive today he wouldn't be able to find a publisher for any of his work". Sadly that is probably true.
The long and short of it is that it?s a real bear of a task for a new writer to get published, regardless of how good he or she is at writing or even how popular the content may be. Until now that is. Amazon.com launched its new program for writers called ?Kindle Singles?. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1520181&highlight
In a nutshell it?s a repository for articles, books, even full length novels if you want that are sold in electronic format. Think Kindle Reader but an iPad, PC, even smart phones can access, buy and down load the works. Who can participate? Anyone with an Amazon account and $20 to set up a payment account (paperwork). What topics do they accept? Anything that is legal. (No, you can?t publish instructions to build nukes.) How do they set up pricing? They don?t, you set your price and they have different royalty scales based on the price you charge and the delivery cost. (A 100 Meg file costs more than a 10 meg file to deliver.) Basically you can price your content at 99 cents to 10 dollars and you decide where the price point is. You also provide a short description of what the content is and that is what the shopper will see. (It?s your advertizing, describe it well.)
How well does it work/sell? I don?t know, the program just started but after reading the details I am going to give it a shot with a short work just to test the water. I think that as electronic books become more popular this method of publishing has far too many advantages to ignore. We shall see and if anyone else in the forum decides to give it ago come on back and let us know what your results are.
