A Magician in Your Publisher: Book Distribution with a Wave of a Wand
- July 5th, 2011
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One of the most difficult steps with working with a publisher is the distribution of the book. Even if everything is easy for you in terms of revising your work according to the publishers’ standards, going with how many copies they want to print, negotiating an income for your book which may be as low as 5% per book, you’ll have one problem after another with the distribution. With many publishers, this is where you are on your own. They’re done with you after getting your book printed. You have to market your book and you have to ensure that it’s well distributed.
By going with a publisher who specializes in self publishing, it’s going to be a different story. Everything will go on autopilot from the publication to the distribution. You might be asking how this can happen. With the right publishing company, you state your own rules for the publication of your book. They follow those rules to the letter so there’s no problem there. When the copies are all printed out and marketing and distribution is the next step, they’ll take care of everything for you.
You read that right, they’ll take care of everything for you. You don’t have to take time out of your day spending time with your family or writing the next book for the series. You’ll just be distracted by the calls you’ll be receiving from your loved ones that they’ve seen your book in this bookstore and in that bookstore. It’s just like someone waved a wand and your book is published. Even if you’re planning on a worldwide distribution for your book, it can happen with the best self publishing company in the market.
So there you have your book published. It’s printed up most beautifully and it’s selling on bookstands in the most popular bookstores. You’re in a daze that it happened just like magic. It’s like someone waved a magic wand and your manuscript has turned into a hundred copies. Casting your eye on the hand that holds the wand, up the arm, to the face, you find that it’s your publisher.