photo credit: Terri Walker-McBroom
Did you know?
Interesting publishing facts ...
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Are you a blogger? The hours you spend
on your online journal can lead to a book. A blog is a great place to
flesh out ideas and get reader feedback. If you can attract visitors
regularly, they are also potential buyers for your book or ebook.
- Over 197,00 new titles are published each year in the United States.
- Approximately 49% of all paperback books are romance fiction, bringing
in over $1.43 billion a year.
- January, August and September are the three months when book sales
are the highest. University and schools contribute to the sales during
these months.
- The publishing conglomerates that control 80% of sales are: Random
House, Time Warner, Disney, Viacom/CBS, and Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation. Four of these are foreign owned. They will not take a
title unless it will sell at least a minimum of 50,000 copies.
- Many famous authors and their books were rejected multiple times.
Here's just two examples: publishers turned down Margaret Mitchell’s
Gone With the Wind 38 times and Stephen King’s Carrie
was turned down 30 times. And can you believe it? J. K. Rowling’s
first book was rejected by 12 unlucky publishers. How would you like
to be the publisher who missed out on the billion dollar Harry
Potter industry?
- The final kicker: e.e. cummings first novel, The Enormous Room was
self-published and dedicated to the 15 publishers who rejected it.
This work is now considered a masterpiece.
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Topics I will discuss
with you during our consultation
- 10+ ways to
sell your books
- binding options: Perfect Bound (soft cover);
Hard Cover [with or without jacket], Smythe Sewn vs. adhesive
bound; Saddle Stitch Booklets (96 page maximum)' GBC; Wire-O-Bound
- formatting your manuscripts for the most common
book sizes: 5 ½ x 8 ½, 6 x 9, and children's books, 11 x 8 ½
or 8 ½ x 11 as well as other sizes
- places to market and sell children's books
- obtaining ISBNs, International Standard Book
Numbers and Bar Codes
- print on demand vs. traditional printing
- importance of obtaining several quotes for
book manufacturing, editing, book cover design
- choosing a book manufacturer and why you should
request various samples of their work before making your final
decision
- questions you should ask your book manufacturer
- Publisher's Weekly - how to submit
your galley copy for a possible review and why timing is of
the essence in this process
- how your 1st paragraph makes or breaks the
sale of your book, especially if it is fiction
- When in doubt, research your subject. Don't
guess!
- selecting the right distributors for your
genre
- what wholesalers can and can not do for you
MORE TOPICS =>
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