Book Publishing on the Internet

Once you write a book, the next step is publishing your book. Life becomes a dance of submitting your book to publishers, getting rejection letters, and the occasional offer on your book. Perhaps you have self published t and trying to find the best way to market your work. Surprising as it may seem, a huge number of writers are missing a golden opportunity to promote and sell their book via online publishing.

The immediate response to this suggestion may be, "Why use online book publishing? Isn't that giving my work away for free?" The answer is yes, of course, but no more or less free than writing a public blog. The reason to publish your book online is simple: It gets people reading it.

Publishing online is a wise chose if you are new to the book publishing world, getting people to read and respond to your work is the most challenging aspect of your quest to publish your book. You can make your book very easy to find, and save a great deal of money on postage stamps, by publishing your book online and inviting people to view it on the Internet.

There are several authors that give 'lite edition' or 'teasers' through online publishing, you are able to put a fraction of your work online just enough to get the audience hooked, leading them to buying the full version!

Online publishing can be simple, with any word processor, it's easy to save your book as an HTML file that is uploadable to the Internet. Once you've done that, it is a small matter to get web hosting and publish your book online.

The best way to publish your book online is to host your own website, which you can do for very reasonable pricing, and link to your book from there. Once you publish your book on your website, you enable two of the big benefits of online publishing.

First, if you promote your book, you will increase traffic to your website. Traffic will increase to your web site if your book appears in search engine results.

Secondly, some publishers and editors actually search the Internet periodically for books published online. As an result of online publishing, you could be the next writer that publisher are interested to approach.

Online publishing is an extremely inexpensive and easy way to promote your book, it can be an excellent jump start to your publishing career!

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http://www.bookpal.com.au is helping self publishers all around the world to successfully self publish and market their books with cost effective solutions to create bestsellers. The website offers a free book for budding self publishers, and many other free resources. To find out more about how the Bookpal team can help you get your ideas into print, click here now for your obligation f.r.e.e. self-publishing consultation.

Terence Tam is the founder of Bookpal, he previously spent 6 years as an academic and was a contributing author for several academic books. Frustrated with the level of service he was getting with traditional publishers, he set up his own self publishing company to help other authors publish and market books with cost effective yet efficient solutions.