Passion will not only stir your readers when your book is done but it will keep you motivated to do the work involved.

When you write a book, it increases your credibility as a service expert.

You are the most qualified person to market your book because you know it better cover to cover!

Many people are saying POD is unaffordable… but the cost of POD has dropped a lot in the past few years!

Have you considered doing a video trailer for your book and upload it on YouTube? YouTube gets more searches on average now than Google!

Develop a good relationship with your local bookstore managers…and then you can negotiate for book signings, premium book placements etc.

Creating a book marketing plan step #4: How will I communicate to my target audience?

Creating a book marketing plan step #2: What need of your target audience is not being met?

Creating a book marketing plan step #1: Who are the potential audience that will buy my book?

Why not do a short story on twitter? Tweet bits of your story daily to keep your followers interested.

Give useful but incomplete information to build a group of excited customers who want to buy your book.

Self publishing: 1-4 months to get your book; Commercial publishing: 18-24 months to get your book.

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.

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Four Essential Tips That Should Help You in Book Printing

The following four tips should be kept in mind if you are planning on printing a book without the aid of an external publishing agency.

• Ensure that the book is in the proper format:

There is a format that should be followed before submitting the book to be published. Appropriate editing procedures, including correction of sentence structures and eliminating grammatical mistakes, must be done before the book is published.

Bear in mind that the printing company does not verify these before subjecting the book to printing.You will have to submit the completed book in the format specified by the publisher, usually in PDF format. It is best to get a professional typesetter to finalize your book before submitting, or some of the book printing services will also offer this service.

• Decide on the type of book printing service you will use.

Offset printers print longer run books: 500+ and digital printers print short run books of 1-500 normally. Consider using a POD (print on demand) service if it is available. This means you can have as little as one single book printed at a time. No inventory, no massive capital outlays and garages of unsold books. The per unit cost will be higher but your risk drops dramatically.

• Find the best publishing service that suits your needs.

A few companies have started this business of accepting work online and printing them in offline (real world) machinery. Make sure to look into the payment options accepted by the publisher. Also decide whether you want to engage a simple book printer, or a full service self publishing firm.

A book printer will only have book printing services but you may save money on the print component. However, that often means you will need to run around and spend a lot of time getting the other services of your book done separately, which in the end, may cost you more. The ancillary services include typesetting, editing, book cover design, book marketing services, and illustration services.

• Check out their book quality

Some agencies will pack and ship the printed books shabbily. Furthermore printers that do not normally specialize in book printing will often make mistakes since they are not experienced in book printing techniques.

So make sure you find a specialist book printing service. A testimonial section listing the feedback of the previous clients should be present on the website. This should give you an idea of the credibility of the company.

Being able to ask for a sample copy is useful.Some printers are in the habit of printing a test copy and mailing the client for approval. If the company you are looking at provides this service, it is a good sign that the company takes business seriously. Sometimes you may have to pay for the samples but it is better to do that than be caught with a bunch of low quality books.

Hopefully this article gives you some good basic insight into book printing. Good luck!

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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.

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