Self-Publisher’s
FAQ
Thank you to
Creative Minds Press for providing the content for
this FAQ.
Welcome to the Self-Publisher's FAQ. If you're here, you
are probably contemplating publishing your own work or starting
your own press. Good for you! You are about to follow in the
tradition of Benjamin Franklin, Carl Sandburg, George Bernard Shaw,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, William
Strunk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy,
Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.
Oh, are those too
"old time" for you? How about Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Scott
Adams (Dilbert), Ken Blanchard, Deepak Chopra, Pat Conroy, John
Grisham, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, to name a
few.
But there's a lot
to know. This website can be used as a starting point to
understanding what questions to ask (half the battle is discovering
what you don't know). Beyond SPAN there's a tremendous amount of
help to be had out there, via books (lots of
them), and websites. I
hope you enjoy this attempt to make sense of this very complex
subject!
Index
Start-up
questions
Definitions, Types of publishing, Forming a
Company and Funding it
The Next Step
ISBN, LCCN, CIP, SAN and other Alphabetical
Considerations
How to Make a Book: The Interior
& Body
Editing, Interior Design, Typesetting, Interior
Order
How to Make a Book: the Exterior
Cover, Title, Barcodes, Logos
Create Marketing Plans
Learning How to Sell the Book... before you print
it.
Printing the Book
Getting a Printer, Printing Types, Book Formats and
Galleys
Learning the Business of
Self-Publishing
Setting your book price, Distributors, Wholesalers, Shipping and
Returns
Getting Noticed in the Wide
World
Reviews, Book Clubs, Awards and Big Box Stores
Tooting Your Own Horn
Press Releases and Press Kits
Internet Marketing
Setting up your Website
Online Bookstores
Amazon and Barnes&Noble.com
Miscellaneous Questions
Fair use, Publisher's Liability, Associations, Trade Shows, Book
Festivals, Just for Fun
Thank you to
Creative Minds Press for providing the content for
this FAQ.
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