Were you sucessful? Did you find a market for the book? Was it expensive? Did you end up with boxes of books in your garage that you are unable to shift?
Please could you let me know of you experiences.
Thanks
2006-08-26 07:04:53 · 9 answers · asked by David 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I have never heard of anyone advising this be done - would e-publishing not be less expensive for you?
I do know of someone who self-published a book about their family name and area of descendancy - there were only about 20 copies done though.
2006-08-26 07:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by bambam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, I marketed Sarah and the Watermelon Festival... a book I wrote for children. I paid $1500 for 500 copies... but I also used full-color for the illustrations which ran up the cost. I did this before Desktop publishing became even better... I had Jostens (the yearbook company) make the copies. I did end up with some extra books, and I donated all of them to a school. I went to the school, read the story to the kids, and then gave them each a copy. By the way, that's a tax write-off for you, too.
2006-08-26 08:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive got only two boxes full of book covers in my garage. I gave away the books in order to try and promote my work. I really never expected to get much out of it in the end, anyway. It was comics, but my stuff doesn't really fit into the box, some of it isn't even comics at all.
I spent a total of about $5k on the whole thing, but would have spent a lot more if I used the piplines that most comic creators do. The publication expense is about 25% of the whole of advertising expense (inlcudes booth at comicons, travel, placing add in the corny publications, etc).
I decided since it wasn't my "masterpiece" I'd advertise using the book itself as a freebee.
More recently (um...two years ago) my spouse and I decided to put that particular work on the web and play around with formats.
www.biersuppe.com
2006-08-26 07:24:32 · answer #3 · answered by The Garden of Fragile Egos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most self publishing shops don’t require you to store boxes of books at your own house. They are called print-on-demand publishers. I-universe is a good one for someone going the self publishing route. They have different prices for different levels of service, they put your book for sale on Amazon.com and allow you to market your book yourself as well with an e-book option.
Just remember that doing it this way requires you to put in a great many hours marketing. Go to local bookstores and talk about signings. Set up a web page and try to get the word around about the book. You can achieve moderate to great success if you work at it (and the book has to be good, too.)
2006-08-30 04:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by Maddog Salamander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a friend who self-published a collection of short stories for 10 years. She was remarkably successful, but this was in an established market.
2006-08-26 07:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by kakiolsen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never tried to self publish. But I have submited my childrens book manuscript to 4 different publishers, so far I've recieved one back rejected.
2006-08-26 07:20:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
publishing would be simple, but the main thing is distribution and publicity
2006-08-26 07:12:42 · answer #7 · answered by Joshua K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i did and the person i gave it to stole it and renamed it THE GREEN MILE. I knew i couldn't trust stephen king! hahaha just kidding!
2006-08-26 07:11:09 · answer #8 · answered by abcdefg_female 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no not yet
2006-08-27 21:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋