Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 4:18:00 GMT
Self-publishing done well involves an expense that not everyone can afford. Publishing with a publisher costs nothing, at most a registered letter to send the manuscript. In this post I do not consider paid publishing, because that is simply not publishing. Reconsidering, therefore, what is sufficient to have to self-publish, the steps and expenses are: a computer (which everyone has) a word processor (OpenOffice is free) an internet connection (which everyone has) an editor , who has a cost, unless he is your friend (and I mean you have an editor friend, not a friend who reads a lot) a layout designer , which has a cost (a manuscript is laid out to create an ebook, it is not converted) a graphic for the cover, which has a cost All these expenses, excluding those for promoting the ebook, are not your responsibility if you decide to publish with a publishing house .
The publisher will provide you at its expense Special Data with an editor and a graphic designer to create a professional cover and a good layout for the paper book and ebook. #3 – Consideration of mass Self-publishing is not perceived by the public. We all know what self-publishing really means . No, not really everyone, we who write and try to do it properly know this. We who are attentive to quality, we who ask ourselves a thousand questions, we who have a thousand doubts. But have you ever thought about mass? Yes, to the people who are outside, to all your potential readers, to the housewives, to your friends who perhaps don't even know that self-publishing exists , to the relatives who only know the bookshops near their home and to whom Amazon reminds them of impenetrable forests of South America, to the people you meet on the bus, to your work colleagues, to all those who use the internet only to look for a pizzeria, book a plane ticket and download mail. All these people are your readers .
They can become one, at least. As? Only if you publish with a publishing house, otherwise they will never reach you, they will exclude you from their readings, they will never know that you are writers, they will never know your novels. For most people, self-publishing doesn't exist , because they aren't aware of it. Self-publishing rhymes with ebook, which in turn rhymes with ereader, that is, with "gadgets" like the Kindle or the Kobo, technological gadgets incomprehensible to many people. We can get away with it as much as we want, we can talk as much as we want about digital culture, about innovation, about increasingly cutting-edge tools, but the fact remains that Italy is not yet a country suited to technology and new forms of diffusion of culture. #4 – The commitment to self-publishing Self-publishing isn't for everyone. Writing is a job that should not be underestimated. Having an idea is one thing, putting it into practice, that is, transforming it into a story that works, into a novel, is another matter entirely.
The publisher will provide you at its expense Special Data with an editor and a graphic designer to create a professional cover and a good layout for the paper book and ebook. #3 – Consideration of mass Self-publishing is not perceived by the public. We all know what self-publishing really means . No, not really everyone, we who write and try to do it properly know this. We who are attentive to quality, we who ask ourselves a thousand questions, we who have a thousand doubts. But have you ever thought about mass? Yes, to the people who are outside, to all your potential readers, to the housewives, to your friends who perhaps don't even know that self-publishing exists , to the relatives who only know the bookshops near their home and to whom Amazon reminds them of impenetrable forests of South America, to the people you meet on the bus, to your work colleagues, to all those who use the internet only to look for a pizzeria, book a plane ticket and download mail. All these people are your readers .
They can become one, at least. As? Only if you publish with a publishing house, otherwise they will never reach you, they will exclude you from their readings, they will never know that you are writers, they will never know your novels. For most people, self-publishing doesn't exist , because they aren't aware of it. Self-publishing rhymes with ebook, which in turn rhymes with ereader, that is, with "gadgets" like the Kindle or the Kobo, technological gadgets incomprehensible to many people. We can get away with it as much as we want, we can talk as much as we want about digital culture, about innovation, about increasingly cutting-edge tools, but the fact remains that Italy is not yet a country suited to technology and new forms of diffusion of culture. #4 – The commitment to self-publishing Self-publishing isn't for everyone. Writing is a job that should not be underestimated. Having an idea is one thing, putting it into practice, that is, transforming it into a story that works, into a novel, is another matter entirely.