Self Publishing Your Book, 5 Secrets To Saving Money

Self publishing a book costs money. There is no way around it. Actually, traditional publishing costs money too, they just take it out of your earnings before they send you your meagre royalty check. Since you are taking matters into your own hands and controlling the destiny of your book and your profits, let us talk about a few ways you can save money and still publish a professional, and profitable, product.

1. Have as many people read and edit your book as possible
. Hand it to friends, cousins, associates, employees, parents, everyone you know who is willing to read your book. Some may need an incentive to read it, offer to thank them in the front of your book, take them out to dinner, promise a fantastic book release party, whatever it takes. Ask them to read it and honestly mark any mistakes, typos, and any areas where the copy is unclear or could be improved.

Why ask so many people to critique and edit your work?

Every single error a typesetter finds will cost you money and it adds up quickly.


2. Ask your book designer to create a sample chapter. This sample chapter will include type style, type size, and layout. Once the sample chapter is delivered, spend some time with it. Make sure you are 100% happy with the appearance of your book before you give the go ahead to design the entire book. Why? Because it is extremely expensive to have a designer change hundreds of pages, however if they are only changing the sample chapter, you have essentially saved hundreds of dollars - dollars you could better spend on marketing and publicity.
   
   
3. Google is now offering free website hosting. This means you could save quite a bundle by designing and hosting your website for free. And you do not have to pay an 'expert' to update your website because you can do it from the comfort of your living room
. OpenSource web design and internet marketing software found online will enable you to add most if not all of the features you want your website to have including ordering forms.


4. Be your own publicity agent
. Getting press and publicity for your book is of vital importance because it promotes sales and that is what it is all about once the book is published, right? You want to sell your book. However, publicists can be extremely expensive and you cannot always be sure that they are doing the job you are paying them for. Dedicate a few hours a week to being your own publicist and save thousands. You can do it, you wrote the book, right? You can certainly spend a few hours a week promoting it because honestly - who is going to be able to represent your book better?


5. Time is money, right? How long did it take you to write your book? What if you could create your next product in half the time? What if you could create it in a week or less? Save yourself tons of time, and money, by creating your next book from resources you already have

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