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    1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Sixth Edition
by John Kremer

1001 Ways to Market Your Books describes more than 1000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books – all illustrated with real-life examples showing how other authors and publishers have marketed their books.
 
         
         
    The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
By Tom and Marilyn Ross


Everything you need to know to publish your own books is here, from start-up considerations to the possibility of selling to a big publisher: how to choose a name for your press, how to get an ISBN, what cover designs cost, how to find a reliable printer, how to price your book, where to find lighter-weight shipping envelopes, how to generate working capital. The authors' encyclopedic grasp of the ins and outs of self-publishing is matched by their natural good sense about self-promotion.
 
         
         
   

The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition
By Dan Poynter

The Self-Publishing Manual explains the publishing process step-by-step, from idea through manuscript, printing, promotion, and sales. Dan Poynter, a leading authority on self-publishing, shows readers how to use innovative techniques to write books faster, produce books for less, and promote books more effectively.

This revised edition covers all of the latest publishing technology such as downloadable books, print on demand, CD publishing, and electronic books. A 52-page appendix of valuable resources is included.

 
         
         
   

Writing and Developing Your College Textbook
by Mary Ellen Lepionka

This comprehensive desk reference introduces academic authors to the higher education publishing industry and guides them in creating successful textbooks for college, university, and adult audiences.

 
         
         
   

Book Design and Production
by Pete Masterson

If you are a writer working with a publisher (large or small) or if you are a small or first time publisher, this book will help you understand the book production process and the principles of good cover and interior book design.

It will allow you to look at a book design and immediately see the common errors and to see that a book is following the traditions of good book design that gives credibility to your message. Whether you do the work yourself or hire it done, this book will help you get your book done right. Use this book to guide you through the bookd design and production process.

 
         
         
   

The Publishing Game: How to Publish a Book in 30 days
By Fern Reiss

This user friendly, step by step, approach to self publishing provides plenty of insight into the self-publishing and print-on-demand process. It is geared towards the writers of non-fiction books.

 
         
         
   

The Publishing Game: Find an Agent in 30 Days
By Fern Reiss

A day-by-day plan for snagging a literary agent and a big publisher. Learn what you must have in your proposal to snag an agent, and how to find the right agent for your proposal!

 
         
         
   

The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days
By Fern Reiss

A 30-day promotional plan for catapulting your book to bestsellerdom. No serious publisher should be without this book. This book is a cookbook approach to publicity. You’ll never again have to worry that you’ve forgotten something crucial—it’s all right here in this book.

 
         
         
   

Get Published Today! No More Rejections
By Penny Sansevieri

Everything you need to publish and market your book! Go from manuscript to finished book in less than sixty days with this outstanding guide for authors. Tired of all those rejection letters? Find out how millions of authors are erasing old barriers and taking control of their writing future.

Get Published Today! explores a new trend that's taking the publishing world by storm. Get Published Today! will teach you about this new publishing revolution then, we help you navigate the marketing process through out step-by-step guide.