Self-publishing your book may help you to retain more profit from the book sales, but how do you do it? Here's a guide on how to publish a book all by yourself.
First, make sure you have a really well-written book.
You should have researched your niche very well, making sure you did not write anything that has been overdone and over used.
Make sure your topic is unique and refreshing.
Since you will be publishing your own book, there'll be no one to tell you to change this or that.
No one will tell you that you need a different vision.
Therefore, you have to be your own critic.
Otherwise you will end up with published books that don't sell.
They will just collect dust in your garage.
Make sure your text is well edited.
Any flaw in grammar can make your book sink to the ground when it comes to selling.
If readers see that you are unable to correctly determine were commas or hyphens go, your credibility will go down.
Your text should be typed and saved in a word processor such as Microsoft word.
After you have the text saved onto your computer, you are ready to put the text into book form.
You can do this using publishing software such as Quark Xpress or PageMaker.
You can also use Microsoft publisher.
You will be able to print out each page.
You will also have a front cover and a back cover.
After your book is printed, you will need bookbinding services.
They can be found at local stores.
You will have to also secure an ISBN number and a bar-code.
These things make your book legal and more than just another e-book.
This process may be a little technical.
If you do not know how to use computers to this extent you may want to consider websites that do the printing for you.
All you have to do on these websites is send them the manuscript and they will send you your text in book form through the mail.
The next step is for you to sell your book.
You can sell your book on websites like eBay.
com or Amazon.
com.
You can also print up flyers advertising your book that you can post around your local area.
There are many ways to advertise and sell your own self-published book.
The profit you bring in will be much higher than if you sent the book to a publishing company.