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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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Do You Have The Write Stuff?

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Sep 19, 2023

Becoming a success (as you have defined it) in book publishing is more an art than a science. You can learn all the right things to do, but the application of those actions is different for every situation, person, book and target buyer. One key to moving continuously in the right direction on your path is to have a strong belief in yourself. In other words, become DEAR to yourself.

Inside Publishing

Marketing & Publicity

Four Steps to Greater Profits

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Sep 12, 2023

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.

Inside Publishing

Marketing & Publicity

How Non-Bookstore Marketing Is Different from Trade Marketing

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Sep 5, 2023

You are familiar with the process of selling books through bookstores, bricks and clicks. But there is another way to sell books, and it could be more profitable for you. That is special-sales marketing — also called non-bookstore marketing or non-traditional marketing. It is the process of selling books to buyers other than through bookstores.

Special-sales marketing is divided into two areas: retail and non-retail. Examples of special retail markets are discount stores, warehouse clubs, airport stores, gift shops, supermarkets, etc. Non-retail opportunities may be found among buyers in corporations, associations, schools and the military. ¹

Inside Publishing

Marketing & Publicity