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Publishing Your Book

There are a couple of options for self-publishing. You can hire someone to publish your book for you, or you can do it yourself. Many companies give you the option of having a physical book or an e-book format.

The primary option for publishing your book is to sell it as an e-book yourself. All you need for this is your word processor and ebook compiler software. These come with special functions to create ebook covers and write-protect the text so no one else can “steal” your words. You don’t have to worry about maintaining an inventory or any printing costs because your book will be available solely as an electronic option.

Making your book into an ebook means that you can sell it on Clickbank which has affiliate all over the world. Although you will have to share your profits, you'll have virtual sales people promoting your book all over the world. Learn more about putting your ebook on Clickbank.

If you are going to create a “hard copy” of your book, you will need to look into specialized software to actually print your book. There are a number of options available from companies like Adobe, Photoscape, and XGBookMax which will enable you to design a printable cover and layout the text. Some of the software even provides templates for the copyright page, table of contents, and the author’s page.

You may need to design a website to promote your book. There are some companies that allow you to create a site or blog for free, but often times, these sites display ads that have nothing to do with your book. You are usually limited to using their templates for the design so you might want to consider creating your own website using a proven platform like Sitesell, which allows you to create a site that will attract your target market by typing text into boxes.

You also want to try to get your site listed as high as possible on the major search engines. Building a Sitesell website comes with tools that show you exactly how to do this. Each search engine uses a different algorithm to determine priority. These algorithms are based on title, content, links referring back to your site, and amount of time people spend on your site, among other criteria.

You will have to do all of the legwork when publishing your book by yourself which includes printing, copy editing, cover design, and marketing. Learning how to do each of these elements adequately can be very time consuming. However, you don’t have to worry about maintaining your rights, and you have absolute control over how well your book sells.

Of course, you could choose to hire someone else to do some of this work for you. Self publishing services companies will do some or all of the initial legwork for you such as copy editing and actual printing. You should expect to pay about $10 per book for paperbacks and will be expected to purchase a minimum number (around 100). You will still have to take care of marketing your book.

There are a number of books available on the subject of self-publishing so if you really looking to publish your book on your own, it’d be worthwhile to take the time to learn more about this process. With some work on your part, your book could easily make you a fair profit.