There Has Never Been a Better Time to Self Publish Your Own Books

The sad news for the book publishing industry isthe self published author to prosper.
that book store sales are down. One of theYou see the problem with the big publishing
biggest book publishers have recently reportedhouses is that they have so many overheads
that their book store sales are down by a(stock, premises, staff, transport, etc) that they
whopping 10%! This is all scary news forneed to make huge book sales to survive. So if
publishers and most of them have already startedthey publish a book they need to feel reasonably
evasive action against this down turn in sales.confident that they will sell tens of thousands of
Some publishing companies have already gone outcopies.
of business while others have started cutting backWhereas the self published author will be happy
on the number of books they publish. And evenwith less sales.
others have stopped accepting new bookIf you want to look at it as dollars and cents
manuscripts altogether. But if you wereconsider this:
considering self publishing your own book, don't beIf you self published a book and sold it through
disheartened because all this news of lower bookonline book stores, libraries, etc and you sold only
sales is great news for the self published author,2,000 copies per year. To a publishing company
or anyone thinking about self publishing.that would be disastrous. But to the self published
You see most self published authors never seeauthor who is earning around $10 or more per
their books available through book stores, unlessbook , it is good news, even with so few sales.
customers order it. Some self published authorsAnd if you wrote several books and sold 2,000
never expect to see their books sitting on bookcopies or more of each book every year, you'd
store shelves and have still become millionairebe earning in excess of $100,000 a year. And
authors.remember that selling 2,000 books a year is
The trend in book sales now is that more andactually very low sales, and you could easily sell
more people are buying their books online. Onlinetwice that many.
book stores will happily list self published books onAnd the more books you write, the more book
their web sites because they don't need to stockyou can sell. We all have favourite authors and will
them so if they don't make a sale then nothing isusually buy all the books they write. So if you
lost.could write and publish several books and build up
You see most self published books are sold bya loyal fan base, then the number of books you
POD (Print On Demand). This means that unlesscould sell is unlimited.
someone specifically orders a copy of your bookBut don't take my word for it. Self publishing a
- through a book store or an online store - yourbook costs very little and is easy to do. If you
book isn't printed. So self publishing through PODknow the steps to publishing a book, know which
means that you don't have to keep a huge stockcompanies you can use to help you and know
of you books and they can be sold all over thehow to market your book with minimal effort and
world automatically.outlay, then you could write book after book and
But how many book sales can you get using PODfeel safe in the knowledge that every one of
publishing? Well, that obviously depends of thethem will be published.
popularity of your book and how well it'sSo take advantage of the of the currently
marketed.publishing climate and start publishing all your own
And with all the big publishing companies strugglingbooks. Can you imagine how great it would be to
to make sales now, you may wonder what hopework at home as a self published author and
there is for the self published author. And therewave goodbye to the 9-to-5 rat race forever?
answer is that there is more hope than ever for