Complete Guide to Self-publishing: Everything You Need to Know to Write, Publish and Sell Your Own Book - Softcover

Ross, Tom; Ross, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898796466 ISBN 13: 9780898796469

Publisher: Writer's Digest Books, 1994

Synopsis

Considered the "bible" of self-publishing, this reference helps readers understand the publishing industry's idiosyncracies, then demonstrates how to work more effectively within those boundaries - whether you're self-published or your book has been bought out by a big New York house. This expanded and third edition explains how to create, sell, and profit from books, booklets, and special reports.

About this title

From the Author

Learn how to publish your own work!
Tom and I originally wrote and self-published "The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing" back in 1979. Then it was titled "The Encyclopedia of Self-Publishing."

We did what we recommend our readers and clients do: make a success of the book, then sell the rights to a major publisher. It was very exciting when we went to Cincinnati in 1983 to negotiate with Writers Digest Books their taking over this title. Little did we know, they had amassed some 30 books on the subject of self-publishing. (We had no idea there were that many back then!) They wanted to choose the very best on the topic ...and decided our book was it. What particularly delighted us was that a trade publisher was finally going to produce a book on self-publishing, thus helping legitimize this method for getting into print.

Since then, the book has been revised and is now in a third edition. In this recent edition we added several things. It now includes 30 ways to generate working capital, information about publishing and marketing into Canada, and details about working with a master (exclusive) distributor. We were most pleased when, on August 19, 1997, a reporter on NPR's Marketplace program declared, "The bible of this self-publishing craze is The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing."

Edition details

• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898796466
• ISBN 13: 9780898796469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432