hammerintheorient 9:44 Thu Mar 26
Self-publishing - any experiences?
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Obviously Amazon has a program, but I am trying to minimize the amount I would have to share, so I wondered if any WHOers have had any experiences with this? I don't want to give too much away and will probably need to 'don a tin hat,' but the proposed title is related to the education sector. I have a fair amount of experience in this area and believe some of the content would be quite 'enlightening' and possibly a bit 'controversial' in some respects. I have quite low expectations, but I'm quite keen to 'give it a go,' assuming the organizations that partner with would-be authors find the topic sufficiently interesting / marketable, of course. Any ideas / pointers would be most welcome ...
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Spandex Sidney
5:43 Thu Mar 26
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Self publishing??
Isn't that what they used to call Vanity Publishing?? It was called that for a reason.
However you were right to ask here, this place is full of ignorant wankers who believe there are no other voice in the world than there own. I'm sure one or two of them have knocked out their own version of Mein Kampf. Good luck with yours.
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Mike Oxsaw
5:45 Thu Mar 26
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"but the proposed title is related to the education sector" =
The School Gates, an ASBO & I.
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Westham67
6:07 Thu Mar 26
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Whomail
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Peckham
1:32 Sat Mar 28
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I maybe wrong, but I thought vanity publishing, was when an online publisher tells you how great you are and then hits you for x amount of pounds to do something online like Amazon, that I think one can do without the middle party ( Vanity publishers ).
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lowermarshhammer
1:35 Sat Mar 28
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Arf @ Spandex
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Alfs
1:52 Sat Mar 28
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Self-publishing is a little different to vanity publishing.
Vanity publishing is when you paid a publisher (who is actually just a book printer, pretending to be a publisher, saying how great your shit book is) and as Peckman says, charges to produce an agreed number of hard copies.
The internet changed that as self-publishing became easier and easier, and free. The key is how to market your book as it will be amongst millions.
Write a blog on the subject of your book, send the book to influencers and people in the arena of the subject you've written about who has a high public profile etc.
Another platform you may want to investigate is Patreon, where you release chapters and people subscribe. A lot of writers are making a steady income from it.
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gph
2:31 Sat Mar 28
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Self-publishing has certainly moved on from the days when Victoria Ogon pushed handwritten verse through Douglas Adam's letterbox.
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gank
2:44 Sat Mar 28
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Yes mate, I can help you with this.
I've considered the market appeal of a book about how you failed as a teacher and have segmented the market for you. Your target audience is largely other failed teachers who already have an abundance of books, and no disposable income set aside or otherwise available, to purchase an epistle mirroring their own failings.
Therefore my advice is to secure a small amount of investment money - it really isn't a great deal. What you need is a small desktop printer, a ream of paper and enough to print out two copies.
Keep one for posterity and attempt to sell the other one for the sum total of your initial outlay and you've broken even straight away! If in the unlikely event you gain another order, perhaps by word of (your) mouth, you can lower the price significantly by deducting the cost of the printer itself, and you're already in profit!
Uncle Gank sorts your problems
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gank
2:45 Sat Mar 28
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Enough INK to print out two copies
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lowermarshhammer
2:46 Sat Mar 28
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Your best work for a while GANK son.
Been down the pub recently?
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Alfie
2:47 Sat Mar 28
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Savage riposte there
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gank
2:57 Sat Mar 28
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Shut the doors yesterday lmh, he has plenty left but it all has shelf-life. We got through every bit of short-term perishable stock in that place.
He was moaning yesterday that he's coined it in but it will all be gone on his first order post-apocalypse. What a cunt, we kept him in poppadoms for 2 more weeks than all the other pub owners around here.
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Peckham
2:59 Sat Mar 28
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What you need is a small desktop printer, a ream of paper and enough ink to print out two copies.
hahahaha
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lowermarshhammer
3:03 Sat Mar 28
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Gank good luck to you post pub.
I think there are many on here who cunt each off behind a keyboard but could get on perfectly well pissed up in a boozer.
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gank
3:05 Sat Mar 28
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If the posters on here are exactly like they pose, in real life, I would want to beat fuck out of 80% of them.
Alternatively they can apologise to me.
Not sure meeting in a pub is a good idea!
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lowermarshhammer
3:06 Sat Mar 28
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Ha ha. You must be a violent type.
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lowermarshhammer
3:07 Sat Mar 28
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I'm just a charming gobshite
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gank
3:10 Sat Mar 28
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No, I'm not the violent type. I'm like most people. I can't abide cunts.
*not you. You seem alright to me.
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Alfs
3:58 Sat Mar 28
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I see that the literature element of this thread as nosedived.
Good old Gank.
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