10 things you did not know about book publishing

The time has drastically changed when it comes to book publishing. Now, every author wants to make his books available to large number of people for reading. This is very much possible in this era, as it the internet era. Every book is available online and can be downloaded from there very easily.

Today, no writer or author is dependent on traditional PR to sell their books and can be uploaded on Onlinegatha, Flip kart or Amazon. Further, now the social media like Facebook and twitter are also of great help. You can easily, tell the people about your book which help you to reach more and more people can be interested in your book. This gives the book more publicity and more readers.

But still there some most important thing which you must know when you publish your first book and there are these things which you did not know about book publishing:

1)      The most important is the meeting of the publishing house and the sales person. In this they will decide about the copies of the books to be released in the market. This meeting will be the private affair and you won’t be allowed to attend this meeting.

2)      Do not always take the other authors as your competitor. Sometime be funny, smart to answer their questions after all they are your friends.

3)      Don’t be nervous or disheartened, if your book is not in the list of best seller. You have more time to improve yourself as the main aim is to make a carrier in writing and not to impress people.

4)      If you are a female writer always be prepared to answer the questions which may be related to your personal life like family supports in writing of the books, about children and many more.

5)      If any reader does not like your book, then it’s not your responsibility to convince them to like your book.

6)      If before giving the book to publisher, you can see the flaws in them just correct them and then only give it for publication. But, if you cannot correct the flaws do not give the book until all the mistakes are removed.

7)      Always feel lucky that you are writer as these are the books only which bring enjoyment, happiness and comfort in the life of the people.

8)      Make sure that you don’t forget to congratulate the other person, if you feel happy after reading his book.

9)      Sometime, you may not be interested in answering the question, in that case you can always say that you are a freelancer and you will be saved from answering lot of question.

10)  Don’t always go by the sales data provided by the publishing house as there may be times good books sell well and sometimes not.

Conclusion

It is the important aspect to choose the best book publisher and seller to sell your book, if you want to sell the books through traditional stores. It is you who have to decide what you need to write and for this you do not need anyone rejection or permission.

Authors! Whom are you writing for

It is the very tricky question which every writer has to face sooner or later that for whom they are writing for, they are writing for themselves or for other readers. After thinking for a while the answer to this question can be arrived that the writing is for both myself and for the others.

Many writers gets immense satisfaction in writing for themselves and the stories they write are their personal experiences.

While many authors wanted to have fame in writing so they write the books which are read by others.

It is you who have to decide whether you have to write for yourself or for others. There is no harm in either option. You have to just sit back and think upon your goals that which path you truly want to follow.

Every author have different opinion for the question whom they are writing for or who is their target audience whether they are writing for women, or for children or on any other subject. But it is always important that before writing you must consider this important question.

 There are different benefits or the satisfaction in writing for yourself or for others.

Writing for Yourself

1)      Reduces Self – Censorship: If you are writing for yourself you need not to worry about the criticism. You can write freely what comes to your mind.

2)      Writing is Fun: Writing for yourself is always fun as there is no person whom you want to impress by your writing and in that way writing becomes fun .

3)       Helps To Be Unique: When you are writing for yourself you can take risks, try out unexpected and write more interesting ideas. All this helps your writing to be unique in every sense and area.

4)      Honest Result: You can easily write what you have dreamt of whether the dream you dreamt was weird. You don’t have to hide your true feelings as the writing will be only with you and you don’t have to give to any book publishing company to publish them.

All these are the reasons when one can only think to write for yourself. As writing for yourself gives immense pleasure and satisfaction.  There are many other reasons also for which you can write for others:

1)      Better Story: Writing for other will help in giving the better story. If you want to connect with the readers you always have to understand what they want and have to move forward from art to craft.

2)      Give you Self Confidence: It is not always that what you writing will always be loved and liked by the readers. You have to always be ready for the negative comments but all these comments should not demoralize your confidence.

3)      Monetary Benefits: Writing for others is always gainful. As there are many book selling company who sells the book through bookstores or upload the book on website like www.onlinegatha.com by which your is available to thousands of people for reading.

Writing for whom is the important question which you must consider before writing a novel or a book. You can write for either for yourself and for the readers.

Top 10 online book publishing company in India

There are many traditional publishing houses but some writers find the online publishing houses more comfortable and inexpensive as compared to traditional ones.

It is always recommended that one must go through the terms and conditions of these houses before giving the manuscripts for the publication.

There are many self publishing houses also which gives you an opportunity to self publish your book where you can get the maximum royalty profit

 Top 10 Ebook publishers are:

 1)      kdp.amazon.com: The Amazon Kindle Store lists more than one million digital books. It supports many formats like PDF (Portable Document Format), Mobipocket. The writers can access the Kindle direct publishing site where they will get every information related to royalty which is 35% approximately.

2)      Lulu.com: It provides the excellent opportunity for the fiction and non- fiction writers. It provides the opportunity where one can print and sell the books by all the retail channels.

3)      Bookbay.com: in this the writers can publish their religious book, cook books, academic and many other. They provide many services like editing, book promo, scanning and press release. They provide every facility which the writer can't even imagine.

4)      Pothi.com : It is the platform which require no investment in inventory and your book will be uploaded online for easy purchase. Further, the book will be also sold on the online retailers like Amazon, Flipkart etc. but, it require 1-2 working days for final approval before your book can be sold.

 5)      Onlinegatha.com: The self publishing house where the writers can avail every facility under one roof at the affordable prices. Onlinegatha.com also provides an information to the writers that how to publish ebook making easier for the writers to enter the new world of writing.

 6)       Nookpress.com: It is the platform which offers the authors the professional services like formatting, editing and make their dream come true. It is also helps the writes on how to publish ebook.

 7)      Booktango.com: It provides numerous options like lifestyle, action , animals where you can choose the option and  publish your book  under the category . The only requirement is that you have to get register yourself with their website to get started.

 8)      Notionpress.com- Another online book publishing house. It was established in 2012 and then went on to create a mark in online publishing industry.

 9)      Bookcountry.com: It is the online community where you can easily publish the book. It also provides various publishing packages, services and many more promotional services. In this writer can easily upload their book which can be easily available everywhere.

 10)  Kobo.com: It isone stopdo- it yourself portal where you can reach million readers in 190+ countries. You have to just fill in your e-book details, upload the cover and lastly make an enticing synopsis to attract your readers