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Now that your book is finished, what happens next? We're here to guide you through the publishing process, from editorial to distribution and sales.

More on Digi-Rights Self-Clear©

by Robert Kasher
Bowker | Tue Jun 18, 2013

Digi-Direct℗ a new service from Bowker, found on its MyIdentifiers site, gives independent authors access to the first patent-protected, automated, comprehensive Rights Management solution. Digi-Direct℗ helps you:

Get a Rights Assessment on Your Manuscript
Clear Rights and Permissions
Register Your Rights for Others to See and Access
License Your Rights to the Global Marketplace

This will help you avoid legal problems, make your content ‘rights compliant’, as well as generate new potential sources of revenue. Rights compliance is important as more and more libraries, educational institutions and other organizations - including some distributors - are requiring some type of rights audit to insure that content from Independent authors is valid and cleared.

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Rights

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Going Digital? Don’t Make These Ebook Errors

by Matt Cavnar
Bowker | Mon Jun 17, 2013

Ebooks have revolutionized self publishing; opening the door to authorial success for anyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection. A myriad of marketplaces, each with their own special requirements, can raise some complications for the first-time digital author. So when first putting a title up for sale, it’s critical to make sure your ebook renders well across all devices. Save yourself from nasty comments criticizing poor formatting by easily avoiding these three big errors (learned through Vook’s own experience creating thousands of ebooks):

Error #1: Only designing an ebook for a specific device

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Design & Production

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Tips for Writing an Author Biography

by Bowker Publishe...
Bowker | Thu Jun 13, 2013

SelfPublishedAuthor.com will periodically present articles on metadata aimed to give the novice publisher helpful tips on crafting metadata for that very first title.

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Marketing & Publicity

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Barriers to Entry Continue to Drop

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Tue Jun 11, 2013

Suw Charman-Anderson writes in Forbes about how tools and processes in self-publishing are becoming cheaper and easier:

[T]here is a growing repository of advice about the fine detail of self-publishing, from guides to how to format your Word document for Smashwords to how to pick a print-on-demand supplier to marketing and promotional strategies. True, there’s a lot of hot air written about self-publishing, especially the marketing and promotion end, but there’s also a lot of incredibly useful advice out there too.

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Getting Started

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More on Digi-Rights Self-Clear©

Going Digital? Don’t Make These Ebook Errors

Tips for Writing an Author Biography

Barriers to Entry Continue to Drop

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Getting Started

Create a Culture of Quality in Your Publishing Company

FAQs about ISBNs

How to Write a Business Plan as Narrative (Part 2 of 2)

A Novel Planning Technique for Book Publishers (Part 1 of 2)

Do You Have the Write Stuff?