This book cuts through all the hype that surrounds the publishing industry. Learn how to register your own publishing imprint and reap the benefits of passive income that successful writing provides. This book shows you, step-by-step, how to set up your own publishing company and self-publish your own nonfiction book WITHOUT the expense of inventory or pricey "writing services" that bogus vanity publishers sell to authors. Using CreateSpace, an Amazon affiliate company, you can self-publish with very few costs up front. Stop dreaming and start living; get your book published and distributed the easy way, and keep ALL the profits for yourself!
Title: The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing For Profit Author: C. Pinheiro (co-authored with Nick Russell) ISBN: 978-0982266007 Publisher: Pineapple Publications Address: 4023 De La Vina Way, Sacramento, CA 95823 List Price: $18.95
The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing For Profit: Start A Home Based Publishing Company and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book With CreateSpace and Amazon, is a cost-effective, invaluable reference tool for any writer.
The author, C. Pinheiro is an accredited business accountant. She has authored over thirteen books, including this Step-By-Step Guide, which she self-published with her own publication company, Pineapple Publications.
For writers of every profession, this book is a short, but thorough and concise guide to the necessary steps of becoming self-published. Additionally, C. Pinheiro includes sections on how to promote your product and make use of affiliate programs such as Google AdWords, and Amazon's affiliate program, where you can set up your own bookstore. Furthermore, the Step-By-Step Guide contains useful information on how to start-up and run your own publication company. Subjects from obtaining an ISBN number for your book, to getting a copy editor and designing cover art for your book is contained in this handy guide. There is also information on trademarks, and copyrights as well as discussions on the different forms of business structures to consider for your own company.
Traditional publishing remains very popular. However, this guide is very useful to someone who desires to publish their book, and has either limited resources, or has sent numerous query letters to no avail. It is very user friendly, and easy to understand. It is particularly helpful for individuals who have a non-fiction niche and desire to publish their work. Overall, this book is a thorough comprehensive guide packed with knowledge and helpful resources , which renders it a primary tool for anyone wishing to self-publish. The beautiful thing about this wonderful and extremely practical little guidebook, is that it allows the author power over their own work. If you truly want to publish your work, there are simple, relatively inexpensive steps you can take to accomplish your dream of publication, and C. Pinheiro does a great job outlining the steps it takes to get there.
A book that does go into the finite details of things authors should/could do, so I found that helpful. I found applying some of these thing not practical based on my location in the world.
What I always find amusing with these books is that they assume that there is a market for your writing, this is not the case for me, and I assume others, maybe it's just me. This is what many of these books assume, I wish they didn't. I have no idea who or where my market is, and this book suggests things, but I'm afraid for most Aussies they could not work.
I guess I don't think like an American, sometimes I wish I could.
This book had so much great info on self publishing that each time I began reading it I found myself searching all the other sites, companies and authors that were mentioned in the book. Its like a self-publishing google search compiled into one book. It'll certainly help point new authors in the right directions and give them ideas on how to promote their books.
This was the first book I bought on publishing as I was deciding to write my own book and wanted to be familiar with the topic. The book is very organized and gives a lot of great tips. It's not as thorough as The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing (5th edition) by Marilyn Ross and Sue Collier, but it does provide a great amount of information in condensed form.