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. We're excited about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.

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Judge Your Book By Its Cover - Everyone Else Will

by Adam Schnapper
Bowker | Thu Mar 6, 2014

Ebook Covers ≠ Print Covers

Ebook covers have different challenges than their print counterparts. Most readers will first see an ebook cover when it's a small thumbnail amidst a grid of ebooks on the digital storefronts. This is the critical moment where a reader will either notice the title immediately, or miss it. The small size of these thumbnails brings new challenges for your cover design.

The Title

Design & Production

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Courting Catalogs and Bulk Sales

by Penny C. Sansevieri
Bowker | Wed Mar 5, 2014

Have you ever dreamed of selling your book to a catalog or large corporation? A sale like that would register several thousand copies of non-returnable product on the book sale meter. The trick is knowing who to pitch and when.

Distribution

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Vook Releases Free Daily Sales Tracking for Any Author, Any Book, and All Major Retailers

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Tue Mar 4, 2014

Leading ebook technology company Vook today launched Author Control, a daily market intelligence dashboard that allows authors to track the sales and unit downloads of their books in Amazon, Amazon KDP, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Nook Press, Kobo Writing Life, CreateSpace, Smashwords, Google, and Samsung, and display their results in a secure, easy-to-use online and mobile-accessible dashboard. Learn more about the new service at http://vook.com.

“Author Control is the next step in our vision to empower authors with the best digital publishing services and the right data,” said Matthew Cavnar, co-founder of Vook. “For the first time, authors can get the complete picture of their sales across the major retail channels in one dashboard, helping them take control of their publishing initiatives.”

Inside Publishing

Distribution

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Copy-Editing: Not Just a "Nice to Have"

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Fri Feb 28, 2014

Most of us, even English majors, make grammatical mistakes. The difference between a copy-edited book and one that has not been copy-edited is enormous. Copy-editing doesn’t change the substance of what you’re writing about. In fact, it enhances it – clarifying meaning, correcting distracting mistakes.

A good copy editor will adjust your punctuation and spelling, question whether or not you really want to use jargon, make sure you’re using the right terminology, and keep you from embarrassing errors of usage. He will keep your language consistent from page to page, and ensure that you capitalize names properly.

Editing

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Did you know?

According to Bowker® Market Research in The Book Consumer In 2012

71% of self-published books that were sold in 2012 were purchased by women
After Romance, the most popular category of self-published books sold in 2012 was Literary.
Nonfiction, Cooking and Self-Help were the most popular nonfiction categories of self-published books in 2012.

Judge Your Book By Its Cover - Everyone Else Will

Courting Catalogs and Bulk Sales

Vook Releases Free Daily Sales Tracking for Any Author, Any Book, and All Major Retailers

Copy-Editing: Not Just a "Nice to Have"

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