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• Pricing Strategies For Your Book by Victor Epand
11 May 2008 at 8:08am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 Setting the right price for your book is crucial to its success. If you do not set the right price, you may do more harm than good to your sales. When pricing your book, you need to take into consideration many factors.
There are generally two methods that you can use to arrive at the price tag of your book. The first is the traditional or the bottom up method. It is called bottom up because you start your calculations from the bottom and gradually go upward to get the best price for the book.
In this method, you first take the production cost of your book, add the trucking costs and multiply the sum by eight to arrive at the magic figure. The reason to use this high multiple factor is to cover the commissions/profits of distributors, wholesalers, and stores, all... ( cont'd )
• Author Debuts Book with 90-Day Plan to Writing a Bestseller
11 May 2008 at 8:07am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
Ask any Christian, and you'll find that most have a God-inspired story in them. However, when it comes to putting pen to paper, that's where many of them falter. Xulon author Henry Abraham has all the answers both new and experienced Christian authors are looking for. In his newest release, How to Write a Book in 90 Days God's Way: Empowering the Christian Writer to Be Heard (paperback, 978-1-60647-150-0; hardcover, 978-1-60647-151-7), readers will learn the professional way to write a publishable book by following an inspirational and biblical process while exploring their creative potential. Writers can discover and develop their authorial voice as they draw closer to God in this 90-day plan.
Readers will learn how to discover and explore their writing potenti... ( cont'd )
• How To Categorize Your Book by Victor Epand
10 May 2008 at 10:29am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 Categorizing your book is one of the biggest challenges you may face when you try to get your book published. Whether you place your book with an agent or publisher or you publish the book yourself, to ensure its success it is essential that you are able to correctly categorize it.
While categorizing, you will find what you have written fitting into any one of the following nine categories: trade, professional, scholarly and university press book, college text book, elementary high school text book, juvenile book, mass market paperback, subscription reference book and religious book. You can rightly categorize your book if you are conversant with the general parameters for each category. Read on for details.
Trade book: Books that are written for the general read... ( cont'd )
• Scribd Wants to Find Out Who Has The Most Interesting Hard Drive
10 May 2008 at 10:26am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 Scribd, the online document publishing and sharing site, began a quest today to find the most interesting new unpublished content out there. Scribd's "Most Interesting Hard Drive" contest will tap its nearly 20 million monthly unique visitors, and is offering great prizes, such as a MacBook Air to the first place winner.
Everyone has hundreds if not thousands of documents sitting on their hard drives, and Scribd's mission is to unlock this information by making it really easy for anyone to publish it online. This contest turns this mission into a game, and judges whose hard drive is the "most interesting" by keeping track of whose content accumulates the most total views in a specified period of time.
Users can upload all kinds of content, such as old school work... ( cont'd )
• How to Write a Book Like a Pro and Profit Sooner by Earma Brown
8 May 2008 at 12:39pm
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 You already have what it takes to write your book. And like other professionals you can create or increase your passive income stream each month. Your professional competitors wish you would never discover these secrets.
You may be asking "What if I'm not a professional writer?" You can still write your professional book and start earning in a few months. I am convinced your audience is waiting on your insightful expertise to help solve their problems.
All it takes is a little know how to write your book like a pro. Start by solving your readers' problems using your expert knowledge. You know the articles, speeches and reports already in your files.
Expand one of your articles or speeches into a short book by adding short stories and some practical how-to steps. I... ( cont'd )
• 12 Months of Posh Handbags, Stuffed With Stylish Fiction
8 May 2008 at 12:37pm
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
A leading publisher and a handbag maker are partnering to launch "Book in a Bag," a year-long giveaway of chic handbags filled with the newest fashion fiction.
The promotion -- featuring books by popular Avon A authors such as Meg Cabot, Marian Keyes, and Kathleen Tessaro, and handbags from the fashion-forward SAK -- "is our salute to the fans of style and stylish fiction," says Liate Stehlik, Avon's publisher. The SAK is a brand known for using signature textures and textiles, and has been featured in fashion and lifestyle magazines like People Magazine's Style Watch, Allure, and Self.
Kicking off the promotion in May 2008, 15 lucky entrants will win three of Avon A's new release fiction titles -- Jean Reynolds Page's "The Space Between Before and After," Kerry ... ( cont'd )
• How Anyone Can Write a Children's Book -- And Get it Published
4 May 2008 at 9:38am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 So it seems we've discovered the deep-down desire of every celebrity in the world: writing a children's book.
And, of course, what celebrities want, celebrities get. That's why the children's book section of your local bookstore seems like an extension of a tabloid magazine. Professional athletes, singers, actors, politicians, fashion models, royalty...everyone, it seems, who's famous is a newly minted children's author.
For the rest of us, the burning question becomes:
* Is it still possible for a non-celebrity to write and publish a children's book? *
Thankfully, the answer is "Yes" -- but it's not so easy. You need to know how to vault over the scores of other aspiring writers to grab that elusive contract reserved for non- famous.
That's the info the new, free e... ( cont'd )
• More Than One Hundred Countries Publish Their Documents Online For Free
4 May 2008 at 9:34am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 YUDU Freedom, a service that lets anyone publish documents online for free, has produced over 1500 digital publications for individual publishers in more than 121 countries in its first week. The service available from http://www.yudufreedom.com/ lets anyone make professional digital publications - such as e-Books and e-Zines - from a PDF in seconds.
One in three visitors published were from the US and the UK but other countries such as Spain, Finland and Slovakia saw a very high interest. Other parts of the world publishing online include: Bulgaria, Japan, Argentina, Columbia, Hong Kong, Israel and Kazakhstan.
Thirty-six per cent of those visiting the site went on to publish their documents with the most popular publications being e-Zines, e-Books, Corporate bro... ( cont'd )
• Print Publishers - Do Writers Need Them Anymore? by Bob Younce
2 May 2008 at 11:41am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 The debate over print publishing versus internet publishing is ongoing. Traditional publishers, who provide content for magazines, newspapers, books and other media, are vastly different than blogs and writing sites. Still, there is a place for traditional publishers in the day of blogs and writing sites. Here are some of the things that traditional publishers bring to the writing game:
* Accessibility. The fact of the matter is that the majority of people in the world don't have Internet access. As developing countries continue to advance, they will be more and more able to purchase print materials. However, computers are becoming more and more widespread, and eventually it is possible that the majority of the world's population will have Internet access.
* Qual... ( cont'd )
• An Underutilized Sales and Marketing Strategy for Authors by Kathleen Gage
2 May 2008 at 11:39am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
Most authors are on the lookout for effective ways to gain visibility for their books and spark the interest of potential readers/buyers. One method that is gaining popularity is for the author to offer a chapter from their book to the reader at no cost. The most effective way to do this is with an instant download from the author's blog or website.
Although a great way to gain exposure for a book, most authors will not realize much marketing success with this strategy for a couple of reasons.
First, many authors simply give the chapter away without requesting a name and email address in trade for the chapter. Granted, some potential readers may leave the site without getting the chapter, but the ones who do leave their contact information are obviously intereste... ( cont'd )
• Publishing Your First Educational Book
29 Apr 2008 at 8:05am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 Every aspiring author eventually will try to get his or her educational book published...preferably with a well-known publisher with a good name in the market.
The first step to be able to publish is to have a manuscript ready that is above average in writing style and covers a topic you know a lot about. This could be because you already are an expert in the field or by doing much research to become an expert.
To get you past the first shifting your manuscript must tickle the publishers interest. This can be done by presenting a book that shines a whole new light on a subject. It could be by presenting the topic you write about in a controversial manner. The thoughts you express in your book do not have to be mainstream to get published.
It also helps if you styl... ( cont'd )
• Creative Byline Invites Writers To Honor Arbor Day
27 Apr 2008 at 11:29am
by noreply@blogger.com (Brian Scott)
 Recognizing the impact of the submission and publishing processes on the environment, CreativeByline.com offers writers a chance to make a difference--and be rewarded for it, as well. For each manuscript submitted between April 25 and May 2, Creative Byline will donate $3 to the Arbor Day Foundation's Trees for America reforestation program. The writer submitting the manuscript will receive a 33-percent discount on the submission fee.
"We at Creative Byline certainly believe it's worthwhile to produce books," says Brad MacLean, founder and CEO. "But we encourage people to take advantage of opportunities to use technology to minimize consumption of natural resources when it's not adding value. The manuscript submission process, to us, is an example."
The U.S. is t... ( cont'd )
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