We are now in the midst of Self-Publishing boom and there is no doubt that if you can manage the various facets of Self-Publishing it is more profitable than hunting for a traditional publisher. But when Emily Craven wrote this book years earlier, she also needed to sell the concept and prove that is worth putting in the effort. E-Book Revolution book is a complete guide from why you should give ebook publishing a thought and how to go about it.
E-Book Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to Ebook Success
In 2016 Emily Craven won the QLD Literary Awards Young Writer and Publisher of the Year Award and in 2018 was granted a writer’s residency at the Caetani Cultural Centre in Canada. She was previously the Digital Producer for the Queensland Writers Centre, where she produced online courses for writers, podcasts and educational videos on writing, publishing,and digital experiments.
Author: Emily Craven
Print Length: 228 pages
Publisher: Emily Craven (November 13, 2013)
Publication Date: November 13, 2013
ASIN: B00AT5XVUM
E-Book Revolution
While every author’s ultimate dream is to sniff the glue binding of the crisp, off-white pages of their first glossy masterpiece, the reality is that most of us will never write a book that exactly fits a publisher’s idea of a mainstream, marketable novel. However, with almost nine million searches per month for ‘e-books’ on Google and 2.5 million searches for ‘free e-books’, we would be out of our minds not to capitalise on this digitisation of our industry.
E-book Revolution: The Ultimate Guide To E-book Success demonstrates how to take those critical first steps to e-book success and choose the right e-book model and promotion style for you.
It covers everything you need to know about the e-book revolution, readying and formatting your manuscript for sale, and marketing your work to the world.
Learn innovative ways to make your e-book unique, how to boost author sales, connect with your readers so they beg for more and promote your work without paying a cent in advertising. Discover the hidden truth behind why publishers reject perfectly good manuscripts.
E-Book Revolution Book Review
The author begins with a clarification of how the traditional publishing works and how Ebook publishing is different from that. With accurate data and example, she illustrates why it makes more sense to go into Ebook publishing.
Although publishing for Kindle, Koobo and the likes has now come a long way, some of the things involved in making it there and tasting the success have not changed a lot.
It is no secret that writing the world’s best book won’t mean anything if you can’t get the eyes needed to make it successful. Digital piracy can worry a new author a lot and make her hesitant when it comes to publishing online. She instructs authors not to worry too much about copyright or digital sharing of their works as this works more in their favor than against, in the long run.
The author also gives suggestions about how you can get constructive feedback and build basic editing skills to make you manuscript worthy of publishing. Even the best of authors let a couple of mistakes slip through. But you do not want to make it a habit, definitely not until you have a good fan-base that can forgive you for the odd errors.
When you self-publish, there are many things you have to juggle and formatting the manuscript and getting ready for the platform is one of the most alien works. The author shares the dos and donts of formatting and best practices plus things only experience can teach you when uploading to different platforms.
No one has ever sold anything without a bot of a marketing. But putting in a lot of money is not something most newbie authors can think of. The author brings some basic marketing techniques that work at minimum cost to you. Free giveaways, blogs, email lists etc all a new self-publishing author needs to know makes it into the later sections of the book.
Overall, E-Book Revolution is a guide every aspiring author must read through once before jumping into the world of self-publishing to make a life a bit easy and develop a sound strategy to achieve desired goals.