How To Self Publish Your Own eBook and Print On Demand Book
How to Self Publish Your Own Book
Are you a Blogger, Squidoo Lensmaster or Hubpages writer? Do you frequently write articles for eZine Articles, WikiHow, Search Articles or many other directories and websites. Or perhaps you just love to write and have always wanted to write a book but don't know how. With self publishing and eBooks, today you can write and self publish your own book for free. If you do a search online, you will find many articles and help, even eBooks showing you how to self publish your own book. In this l...

Self-Publishing with Blurb
Blurb.com - A Way for Authors to Self-Publish
What is Blurb? It's a wonderful discovery for an aspiring author. If a writer choses to self-publish their content, there are a number of Print-On-Demand sites like Lulu.com or Create Space, but let's focus on Blurb.com here. I've used it a number of times with varied books and found it quite versatile. The wonderful thing about Print-On-Demand (also called POD) is the author doesn't have to buy hundreds of dollars worth of books to get the book published by a traditional pri...

Public Domain Books
Copyright and Royalty Free Books in the Public Domain
Old and rare books that once were too fragile to handle, are now available to be viewed thanks to technology. Thousands of old books are being scanned by libraries, universities and organizations like Project Gutenberg, all around the world. The digital world we live in is preserving these old books forever. No more need to keep these books away from fingers that might soil their fragile pages or protect them from extremes of temperature and humidity. Computers have changed all that. These bo...

Self Publishing Resources
Publishing Options
I am writing a book. In the meantime, I wanted to find some resources for self-publishing. I knew about Lulu.com but wanted to check out all my options before I decided. I am hoping to find one that has a template to make the table of contents an index easier to create. I asked for advice from people on LinkedIn (in the Answers forum) to see if anyone had any experience they could share. I received an overwhelming amount of information. Now the task was to look through all those links and opt...

Self-Publishing Will Kill Your Reputation as a Quality Author
Self-publishing
Self-publishing--a term often confused, skewed by greedy vanity publishing companies, and a stigma to the entire publishing industry. What do you think when you hear, "I am self-published?" "That author wasn't good enough to get a 'real' publisher." "Their book probably wasn't edited." "Their cover design is horrible." "They just wanted a quick fix, an easy road to get their book out." This is only a smidgen of the stigma true independent publishers have to fight from those in the "self-pub...

A Warning For Self Publishers
Self-Publishing is Not For the Faint of Heart
A lot of websites will tell you they hold the secret to making your novel a bestseller, but don't expect instant success as successfully selling your book will take time, good marketing buzz and alot of luck. Take note that the average book, self or traditionally published, only sells around 99 copies and that includes the copies you sell to family members and friends. Here's my experience with self-publishing. You've been warned.