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Start Your Own Self-Publishing Business:
Start your Own Self-Publishing Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success is the self-publishers' complete guide to starting their own publishing company either to self publish their own books or with the intention of taking on other writers' works in addition to their own. This book discusses in detail print, electronic, and audio publications and is complete with lots of examples, helpful forms, and smart tips. I liked Start your Own Self-Publishing Business: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success... more info
Easy to Read:
I purchased several books on this topic. The information is helful but I find out that there is a lot more to learn the more I read. You may want to explore what other useful information you may find online. After reading on this topic I find same or similar info in the books. For instance: That POD is not going to be very profitable since, it prints only few copies at a time. (Also how will you know that the POD company is not cheating you and is accurately reporting purchases and your reinbursement?)
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Adequate but Nothing Special:
As a non-neophyte self-publisher, I have read several books like this. By a fair margin, Dan Poynter's offers the greatest value. This Entrepreneur Magazine book provides an adequate survey of the various steps you need to take to self-publish a book. But the authors lack the insight and humility that people who have actually gone through the travails of self-publishing would have. Instead, it relies on interviews with a scant four self-publishers, whose comments pop up in chapter after chapter. It reveals... more info
Should Have Listened to the 3-Star Reviewer!:
I have to say that most of the time I'll disagree with the one guy who thinks a book sucks when many others have 4- and 5-star reviews. However, unfortunately, this wasn't the case for this book. I should have avoided the book based on the fact that it was published by Entrepreneur Press. I've had plenty of doses of their extremely dry-as-dust home-business manuals (that they sell from their magazine) and this book was no exception. Not only was this book boring but it offered little useful content.more info
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