Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 4:27:21 GMT
A traditional publisher does everything necessary to get the book to the bookstore, paying you. Bob Mayer, NYT bestselling author Index of topics A new publishing Buying copies Basic publishing services This simple sentence, which I wanted to use as the opening quote of the article, summarizes the essence of publishing . Everything else cannot simply be called publishing, but must have an appropriate name. I want to use another quote that explains the concept of publishing well: Traditional book publishing is when a publisher offers the author a contract and, in turn, prints, publishes, and sells your book through booksellers and other retailers. The publisher essentially buys the right to publish your book and pays you royalties from sales. «Writers Digest Shop» Both quotes make it clear, without mincing words, that in publishing the author does not have to pay anything .
Buying a domain for the book site at his own expense is the author's choice (as I did). Buying a certain number of copies at a 30% discount, to give them as gifts or do with them as you like, is the author's choice. Buying advertising space on Facebook to spread the book is the author's choice. In short, the author chooses to participate in the promotion of his book, but cannot be forced to do so if the Special Data promotion involves costs to bear. A new publishing... that is, paid publishing Every now and then I happen to find new online publishing houses , which sell themselves as something new in the Italian publishing market, the publishing that was missing, that we were all anxiously waiting for. This new publishing, however, is the same old story: it is paid publishing .
But be careful: none of these new publishers of the third millennium, of the Century of Nonsense, as I like to call it, none of these publishers declare themselves to be paid. It simply masks its true nature - which is that of classic typography - with a series of additional services offered to the author, upon payment for a certain number of copies to be printed: ISBN code Cover Ebooks Inclusion in online bookstores Can I publish a book today without an ISBN code, without a cover, without having it sold online and without even having the ebook edition? Of course I can, as long as I don't sell a single copy. Print this dogma on your mind: There is no paid publishing, there is traditional typography. The purchase of a few dozen copies of the book How to disguise paid publishing Then there are some publishers who specifically ask the author to purchase perhaps 50 copies of their book, at 30% of the cover price.
Buying a domain for the book site at his own expense is the author's choice (as I did). Buying a certain number of copies at a 30% discount, to give them as gifts or do with them as you like, is the author's choice. Buying advertising space on Facebook to spread the book is the author's choice. In short, the author chooses to participate in the promotion of his book, but cannot be forced to do so if the Special Data promotion involves costs to bear. A new publishing... that is, paid publishing Every now and then I happen to find new online publishing houses , which sell themselves as something new in the Italian publishing market, the publishing that was missing, that we were all anxiously waiting for. This new publishing, however, is the same old story: it is paid publishing .
But be careful: none of these new publishers of the third millennium, of the Century of Nonsense, as I like to call it, none of these publishers declare themselves to be paid. It simply masks its true nature - which is that of classic typography - with a series of additional services offered to the author, upon payment for a certain number of copies to be printed: ISBN code Cover Ebooks Inclusion in online bookstores Can I publish a book today without an ISBN code, without a cover, without having it sold online and without even having the ebook edition? Of course I can, as long as I don't sell a single copy. Print this dogma on your mind: There is no paid publishing, there is traditional typography. The purchase of a few dozen copies of the book How to disguise paid publishing Then there are some publishers who specifically ask the author to purchase perhaps 50 copies of their book, at 30% of the cover price.