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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.

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7 Tips for Great Book Covers

by Ebony McKenna
Bowker | Tue Nov 13, 2018

As much as we try to rise above it all and not be judgmental, we really do judge books by their covers. With thousands of English-language books published every month, competition is fierce — your book needs an amazing cover to compete for readers’ money and time.

Here are some tips for finding a great designer so that your cover can outshine (or out-gloss or out-matte) the competition.

Inside Publishing

Design & Production

How to Succeed in a Changing Market

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Oct 16, 2018

Publishers Weekly (October 3) wrote that Barnes & Noble may be up for sale, and that can provide a lesson for book publishers: there is an opportunity for substantial revenue growth of printed books in non-bookstore markets. Publishers who ignore these changes and rely on the traditional business model of selling primarily through bookstores may run out of room to grow.

Inside Publishing

Marketing & Publicity

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7 Tips for Great Book Covers

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