The Second Book in the Daily-Bible-Reading Series is now available on Amazon:
The Book of Esther: A Story of Love and Favor
By: Deborah H. Bateman
Check it out at:
http://tinyurl.com/74xne2o
Be sure to check out the beautiful reviews of the book
I hope you enjoy reading it and studying The Book of Esther
May God bless you all!
Since the birth of publishing, authors have been forced to deal with the middlemen of this industry; the publishing houses. Often some of the best authors are turned away at the door because they are not “recognized” enough. Sometimes the best talent is rejected because big publishing houses just do not have time to look over all of the manuscripts. Well the times have changed. Now authors can self publish their material for next to nothing in the form of an ebook. While many traditionalist stubbornly claim that “customers won’t buy ebooks”, nothing could be further from the truth. Some ebook authors make exorbitant amounts of money. What’s better is they get to keep most of their profits. If you are thinking about writing a book, consider publishing it in ebook format. Here are some of the benefits of ebooks…
Lower costs than self publishing
Larger returns than many traditional publishing offers
Work on your own terms
Constant and growing profits
Here are some of the downfalls of self publishing ebooks:
You must learn online promotion strategies
Effectively you are the author, distributor, webmaster and many more positions
May require some knowledge of web design, book design etc etc
As you can see, digital publishing is not all fun and games. If you are serious about promoting your book online you should understand that you will no longer be just an author. You also take over the publisher’s role and become your own distribution agent. If you’re willing to sit down and do a little learning than transforming your book into digital format may be the right thing for you to do.
To learn more about digital publishing visit http://www.zizzoo.com. Alternatively if you are ready to start writing and designing you ebook check out http://www.zizzoo.com/guides/ebook
Author: John Sweeney
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Low-volume PCB Assembly
I am so excited to announce to you that The Book of Esther: A Story of Love and Favor has been downloaded to Amazon and should be available tomorrow. It is a Daily-Bible-Reading Study of The Book of Esther. It contains 18 lessons consisting of: a commentary, the daily Bible Scripture, the prayer of the day, and a few thoughts to ponder which I call things to think about. It is a book about love, God’s favor, and a bit of history. I really enjoyed studying The Book of Esther every time I went through it. I am sure you are anxious to get your copy, so help me keep an eye out for it on Amazon. Let me know when you spot it on Amazon. Let’s see who will buy the first copy!
After reading many, many books to my daughter, I decided to start writing my own children’s book. How hard can it be? You write a cute story about some animals having a picnic, get published and have the money roll in. Yeah, no that’s not how it really works. Writing and publishing children’s book is not as easy as it sounds. You have to remember that you’re writing for little kids who have a understandably limited vocabulary and very precise taste. Based on my own experience and a bit of research that I did, I came up with some advice on how to go about writing and publishing children’s books.
Start by deciding who you’re writing for and what you want to write about. Remember that children of different ages and genders are into different things. Three year boys generally like Thomas the Train and Cars while the girls like princesses and tea parties. Of course at some point they all like things animals, boats and birthday parties, but it’s up to you to decide what to write about and for whom. Try not to follow trends because by the time you write your book and get it published, there’s a good chance that the trend may be going down or is over. Once you’ve decided on a plot, characters and who you want to reach, remember to respect your readers. Just because they’re little doesn’t mean that they need to be lectured by your morals or spoken to like they’re dumb. Children are very smart and have very strong opinions.
Once you’ve written your first draft and added the pictures, go back to the drawing board and think about how to improve it. Is there something or someone that you can add to the story to make it more memorable? Will your audience want to come back for more? Is the story and the pictures of the right maturity level for your audience and will they connect with it? When you have gone over this a few times, then it’s time to put your story to a test. Give copies to people that you trust and ask them for their opinion. Go to a children’s school and read the story to the kids so that you can see their reactions.
Once you decide that you are completely satisfied with your story, find a digital printing company. Make sure that you get a digital printing company because you want your wording and your pictures to be sharp, clean and precise. Digital printing is the best way to go about getting this done. Be sure to let the book printer know if you want to print a hard or soft cover book, how you want your margins set, and that they should put your name and telephone number on each corner of each page of the book. This is a very important step so be sure to be clear about what you want. How many books you decide to prints depends on how many publishers you want to send your book to. If your strapped for cash, instead of printing a book, you can print loose pages. I recommend printing a few extra books because the first twenty publishers may very well turn you down.
When you get your books from the publishing company, do some research on publishing companies. Find out where to send your books and to whom. When you’re ready to send your book to the publishers, have a short cover letter saying why your book is different from anything else on the market. Don’t compare yourself with another author. That author is already out there so you should be unique. Once you send your book out, all there is left to do is to wait. The publishers get thousands of books a day so it will take some time for them to get to yours. Most importantly, don’t lose patience. If it doesn’t work out with the first book, write another one and see how that goes. Good luck!
A digital printing company Printing a few copies of your children’s book may help to make a good first impression when you send your work to a publisher for review.
Author: Aleya Bamdad
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Group deal, group purchase, group discount
Unless you’re Stephen King or one of the other best-selling authors, you’re not going to make the same income by being traditionally published as you would if you self publish your book as a Kindle ebook. Don’t believe? Let’s do the math.
Author A is a mid-list Author with XYZ Publishing House (names have been changed to protect the guilty).
Author B on the other hand, is a non-conformist. She self-publishes on her own site and puts her books in Amazon’s Kindle bookstore.
Now for the math:
XYX publishes Author A’s book and prints 25,000 copies (their normal run for her genre). The paperback book sells for $6.95.
For this scenario, Author A will get 7% of the gross. So 25,000 X 6.95 = $173,750 X.07 = $12,162.50. The book was not reprinted as more than 2,000 books were sent back to the publisher so the royalty Author A actually received was reduced by $973.
Now Author B publishes her book on the Kindle so there is no print run. But she does sell the same number of books as Author A in the first year because her book is being sold worldwide.
Because Amazon pays a royalty of 70% for buyers in the United States and other Countries – 35% royalty, Author B’s royalty will be measured at an average of 52.5%. To be even more fair, Author B sells her book for $4.95 on Amazon. So 25,000 X 4.95 = $123,750 X.525 = $64,968.75.
Money isn’t the only difference between the two authors. Author A is locked into a contract and since her publishing company won’t reprint, the only money she’ll receive is 7% of the 70% her publishing company makes selling it as an ebook on Amazon.
Which means Author A is dead in the water. She’s locked into a contract and it will be years before she can get her book back to self-publish.
While Author B will be selling her ebooks year after year. Even babies being born today will end up paying for and enjoying her books.
So tell me again, why you prefer to be print published rather than selling your own books as Kindle ebooks?
And with your books on Kindle, it’s entirely possible your name could be right up there with Stephen King but without the baggage of a go nowhere contract. Just Google Amanda Hocking if you don’t think this could happen.
Judith Tramayne’s passion for the last 13 years is helping Authors self-publish ebooks. Her “Kindle eBook Course” has 18 videos and 7 image-filled PDFs shows how to EZ-ily make a Kindle ebook. Visit www.agoodread.com
Author: Judith Tramayne
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Blutetooth Smart Key finder for iPhone & Android
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn