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Solving problems!
When I started writing my book I was looking for a publisher to do the
book for me. With all the negative information I received I soon gave up
on the effort of getting my book published by a pro.
In looking at other book binding tools on the web I was soon convinced
that I could publish and bind my own book. However I now needed a book
binding press (as every one calls them). I call them Jigs and fixtures.
Anyway I experimented with a few different methods and came up with a
simple and expedient way of clamping and gluing my books into a soft
cover book.
Now, I have become more than an 89 year old Author for now I have to get
these Jigs and Fixtures out to other self publishers to use as they
might want an easy and simple way of putting their books together.
You want to get it published.
HA--HA!
Writing
your book was the easy part, now you need to find a publisher, I hope
you have been researching for one while working on your story. I can
give you addresses of many but you probably would get the same reception
that I got. "Were to busy, send in a manuscript and we will look it over
and get back to you. Or we don’t do poetry, etc."
So now lets
talk about self-publishing There are many reasons to self publish. The
most important one is that you retain ownership of your book. A
publisher would own the rights to your book and market it at their price
and also receive all future orders. Of course they would send you a
check for about 10 to 15% of the sales.
Another way
to self publish is make your pages camera ready and send it out in
manuscript form to a publisher that specializes in printing for self
publishing authors. They do not own your book they just print it for
you. Also they do not set the price, or market them, that is your job.
You must
have all pictures in order, just the way the printing company wants them
to be and the pages would have to be marked where the pictures were to
be placed.
So you see
self publishing a book is like building a house, you can sublet some of
the work out to a print shop and maybe get your book printed and bound
or you can do it your self one stick at a time.
Self-publishing still has its drawbacks. You will have to make the
covers, print the book, put it together by binding and gluing and then
get out and sell the book to all your friends. When you run out of
friends you will most likely go to the Internet to market it. Is this
o/k with you?
Yes! Then
next you have to decide how do you want your book bound? Plastic coil,
wire coil, three ring binder or maybe soft cover binding with a glued
spine so as to be able to set the book on a shelf with the title showing
like the paper back book
I hope you understand that
your book will not be a money making experience by any means, just hope
to recover some of the expenses you have incurred. |
