Should You Self Publish Your Own Books or Not?

the rise in the number of self published authors,negotiated a contract, you will still be responsible
there is much debate as to whether it's better tofor marketing your won work because publishers
self publish your own books or whether to stillprefer to use their marketing department to
follow the traditional route of trying to find awork on their best selling books or celebrity
publisher.biographies.
There are many people who say that selfAnd after all that, if your book fails to sell at least
published books won't sell or that no one trustsa few thousand copies quickly, it can be
self published books, but the people saying thiswithdrawn in only a few months.
are not publishers or published authors. They areBut if you prefer to have a large publishing
simply people who want to be published authors,company publish your book then this is the way
but their not, so they spend their time trying tofor you to go.
discredit the work of self published authors.On the other hand you may want to retain
But when it comes to selling books, the onlycomplete control of your work and this is where
opinions that matter are those of the readers.self publishing can help you.
And readers don't care who has published theEverything about the publishing process is left in
book, as long as it's a good book.your complete control and with the use of
So the only decision you should be making ismodern technology, publishing a book, or a
which type of publishing is best for you and yourthousand books, can be done from home with
personality type?only a computer and internet connection.
Traditional publishing means that the author has toYou can easily set out your book, create a cover
relinquish all the rights to their own work andof your own choosing and have your book selling
some authors don't want tot do this.internationally within only a week or two.
A publisher will control the cost of the book, theAnd you don't have to worry about the low sales
interior layout, the cover design, the editing, anyor your book being withdrawn because while a
changes to the finished manuscript and thesale of only a couple of thousand copies after
publishing date.publication is bad for a large publishing company,
If you're a first-time author a publisher may delayit's great for a self published author, who, instead
publishing your book for quite a while. So the timeof receiving a small royalty from book sales, is
between you signing the publishing contract andmaking $15 or more per sale.
the time your book is published, can be severalAnd you can keep your book "in print" for as long
years.as you want.
It also may take several years before you find aWith the ease of modern publishing methods, you
publisher which can mean a lot of writing time lostcan now write as many books as you want to,
in sending out query letters and proposals. Evenas often as you want to and you can relax in the
the first "Chick Soup for the Soul" book, whichknowledge that they will all be published.
has now sol millions of copies, was originally turnedAnd once you become a regularly self published
down by over 140 publishers.author, even if you only sell a few thousand
A publishing contract is also something that needscopies a year of each book, you can still achieve
to be taken into consideration.a 6-figure income. And if you want to increase
A contract will be dozen of pages long and is bestyour income all you have to do is write and
looked over by a lawyer who deals withpublish more books.
intellectual property law to make sure that all theNow isn't that the kind of life you've always
clauses are fair to the author.dreamed of?
And even when you've found a publisher and