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You've Written Your Book. Now What?

Here at Self Published Author.com, we offer tools, advice, and resources to help you through the publishing process. Bowker is the official ISBN agency in the US and Australia. We're excited about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.

At Self Published Author.com, we

  • offer industry advice and perspective, giving you an inside scoop on the business
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  • refer you to partners who can help
  • list events specifically for self-published authors

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How to Sell Books On Home-Shopping Networks

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Jan 27, 2015

Home-shopping networks (QVC, HSN) reach millions of people every day with information on a wide variety of products, including books. Before you try to reach these buyers, consider your books’ salability on television. Does your book …

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Four Steps to Greater Profits

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Mon Jan 26, 2015

Publishers want to increase sales with new books and new ways to market them.  Yet in practice they wait for authors to submit manuscripts and then sell the published books through bookstores and online. The quest for innovation is lost to habit and tradition.

It doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) be that way. There is a reliable, systematic process for developing new, different and more successful ways to publish profitably and simultaneously grow your business. The objective is to close the growth gap --- the area between where you are now and where you want to be. There are four basic steps in this process.

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How to Make a Good First Impression, or Correct a Bad One, With Prospective Buyers

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Wed Jan 21, 2015

We all want to make a good first impression when calling on a sales prospect for a large book order. An order for thousands of books could be at stake. So the pressure is on you, and that alone could cause you to make a bad first impression. But there are other reasons, and some are beyond your control. The most expeditious thing to do is to control the impression you make on buyers. But if you don’t, you may be able to correct it. Here are Ten Ways to Make the Right Impression. 

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