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Waiting for a traditional publishing company to pick up your manuscript is frustrating. Take your book into your own hands and self publish your book, resulting in more copy write control, marketing control and more royalties from sales.
Self Publish Your Book for Free
While your ultimate goal is most likely to make some money off your written work, the truth of the matter is that books don't sell until their author's are more well known and their work is recognized and marketed well. One great way to get your name out in the public is by making your book available online.
- Scribd.com - The largest social publishing company in the world, you can upload any type of file onto the website to share (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, etc). Your work will appear on Twitter, Facebook, and all other search engines for optimum exposure. Scribd.com publishes your work instantly online for free and allows people can download part of your work or all of your work for free on their computers, mobile devices and eBook readers. You can subscribe to other notable author's and print mediums such as Barack Obama, the Chicago Tribune, Lonely Planet, Pearson Schools, The World Bank and Random House Publishing Group, just as they can subscribe to you.
- WellToldTales.com- A social publishing company that allows you to upload your own short stories online for free. You can also publish short films and audio versions of your short stories. You can review other author's work and get paid small amounts using Google AdSense.
Self Publish your Book for a Price
Online print-on-demand (POD) publishing companies offer more printing and publishing services anywhere between $300 and $700. POD publishing companies, such as CreateSpace (formally BookSurge), iUniverse, Author House and Lulu.com have you download their software, upload your manuscript, and help you publish your work for you on their online bookstores, and print the books as they are ordered - saving both you as the author and them as the publishers a lot of money by not having to pre-order stocks of books. Good POD publishing companies also offer additional marketing, editing and copywriting services.
Remember that unless word gets out that your book is a good read, you most likely will not sell that many copies. For this reason using both online publishing companies and online social publishing networks are the best way to self publish your book.
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