I always say to
students,
���congratulations my writing
on
a book. That was the
easy part. From now on
everything is hard.
���
RIC WASLEY, instructor of a marketing for
authors course at the Wellesley Free Library
According to Wikipedia, some other
bonuses of self-publishing are that ���the
author retains all rights, including foreignlanguage rights, ebook rights, movie rights,
and television rights.��� It also means your
book won���t be backlisted. If a book has inadequate sales, a publisher can backlist a book,
meaning it���s no longer available to purchase.
On the other hand, there is definitely a
downside to self-publishing. Some people
still confuse self-publishing with the vanity
presses of years before. Vanity publishers,
which charged high costs to publish unprofessional, unedited books that often sat in
boxes in a garage, have pretty much disappeared. Self-publishing is different because
the writer is publishing a book in a strate-
CO U R T E S Y O F C R E AT E S PA C E I N D E P E N D E N T
P U B L I S H I N G P L AT F O R M
gic, well-thought-out way.
SPRING/SUMMER 2013
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north bridge magazine
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