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| The Self-Publishing Manual : How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 15th Ed. (Self Publishing Manual) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Poynter
Publisher: Para Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (243 reviews)
Sales Rank: 150764
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 15 Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 461
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1568601344
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.593
EAN: 9781568601342
ASIN: 1568601344
Publication Date: May 25, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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This book is your own personal coach! December 19, 1998
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual is a great coaching guide for any author. All the resources, steps, and secrets are there to help you publish a top quality book on your own terms and within your own time frame. Dan is a master mentor for aspiring authors and publishers!
Can make the difference between a manuscript and a book December 10, 1998
29 out of 33 found this review helpful
THE SELF PUBLISHING MANUAL offers step-by-step instructions for producing a best-selling book. Poynter shares is vast knowledge on researching, publishing, handling printers, establishing credit, discount and return policies, promotion, and marketing. The information industry accounts for over half of the national product, and publishing a book can bring recognition, wealth and success in one's career so almost everyone wants to write a book. It seems most have the ability. Some have the persistence but few have the organizational skills. Poynter helps his readers organize their work. This easy-to-understand, fun-to-read, up-to-date book makes writing enjoyable. It shows how writing can be as uncomplicated as talking, and offers specific cures for writers block. Poynter shares this formula for establishing a track record and becoming recognized as an expert. He offers surprising, helpful information such as: (1) It is often more profitable to self publish and to sell for years than to sell a manuscript to a traditional publisher who retires it after one season. (2) More books are sold through the mail then through bookstores. He gives specific details on publishing and setting up a successful mail-order company to sell books. Perhaps most important, Poynter advises his readers to stop trying for a best-seller and create a best-selling book. He explains the many choices: New York publisher, self-published, small publisher, Vanity press. He describes how one traditionally-published author created enough sales for her book to excite the publisher to spend more ad money resulting in a best-seller. THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL exposes many little-known facts about traditional publishing, such as, what a short time of book has to sell, how little money is devoted to marketing the average book and what a slow process traditional publishing can be. Because information is getting outdated faster today, books have even less time to sell. Whether a book is self-published or produced by a large publisher, the author must do the promotion. Poynter shows his readers how to announce their books to the industry, the government and the world without paying for advertising. By the time an author figures all this out, the book is not new anymore and has no chance of making it in the traditional game. If my co-author Jenny Wolf and I had read his book before Drake publishers in New York published our book RUNAWAYS in 1974, there's a good chance it would still be on the shelves today since millions of teenagers runaway each year. In fact we may use the information in this book and self publish a revised version. Poynter shows how to ask for testimonials, and how to time book reviews, radio and TV appearances, space advertising an autograph parties to hit after bookstore deliveries. THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL can make the difference between an unpublished book and a best-seller. This book is a must for would-be authors and writers hoping to publish their own work or sell their manuscript to traditional publishers.
The best self-publishing guide around. November 5, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has never found its way to my shelf -- I keep it near my office desk at all times. It contains so much usefull information I find myself refering to it again and again.
A must for anyone interested in self publishing! September 30, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dan's book gives you all the tools to put out a good looking book! He tells you how important it is to change hats and promote your book! Never give up he says! Don't worry Dan! I won't!
Truly a wealth of publishing information! September 26, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has become my publishing bible! It's an ideal reference for those new to the industry. As an author, the creativity in writing a book is a joy; the business of getting it published and marketed is exactly that.....a business! And one which few writers know anything about. Dan Poynter shows the do's and don't's of that business. His book is chock full of lists, references, examples, and resources. An excellent investment!
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