subject: Who Needs Traditional Publishing Anymore When Self-Publishing is Gaining in Popularity and Respect? [print this page] Who Needs Traditional Publishing Anymore When Self-Publishing is Gaining in Popularity and Respect?
Why spend years of frustration and rejections to get your book published and out into the world? For the unknown writer, the traditional route of high profile publishing houses can be slow. It is hard to keep your confidence and spirits high with multiple rejections.
You will still need to do most of your own marketing and have a marketing plan with traditional publishing establishments, so why not avoid years of submitting your book repetitively or searching for an agent, which can also be costly and time consuming?
There are many books that have sold well beginning in the self-publishing or non-mainstream publishing world. I read the book The Shack about a year ago when it was given to me by a friend. In the final pages of the book, the author, William P. Young asks the readers to promote the book on the internet and word of mouth. A Christian based book is now being discussed all over the nation by both Christians and non-Christians alike.
David Wood wrote Get Paid For Who You Are in 2010, and it went viral quickly spreading like wild fire into spin offs, tele-seminars, coaching and other programs. I heard about the book on facebook and helped to promote it to all my friends through facebook after I read it and loved it.
Boyd Morrison wrote his first novel and five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent after nearly three years and three novels. 25 publishers turned down his book The Ark. With nothing left to lose, Morrison uploaded The Ark and his two other unpublished novels to Amazon's Kindle store in March 2009. Within three months, he was selling books at a rate of 4,000 a month, a number that attracted the attention of the same publishers who had rejected him. In May of 2010, when The Ark was released in hardcover from Simon & Schuster, it became the first self-published Kindle book to be picked up by a Big Six publisher.
According to a recent Bowker report, the market for "nontraditional books" in the United States grew by more than 750,000 new titles in 2009, a 181percent increase over 2008. Five of the top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle store, which now produces more sales than Amazon's hardcover list, are currently self-published.
Self-publishing is a worthy alternative for the writer to consider. The public view of a self-published book is rising as the process improves and the final product looks nearly identical to books sold in book stores and from traditional publishing sources.
To grab a free book visualization, visit http://www.selfpublishingexperts.com. Often a visualization is a great way to get started creating or finising that book you have always wanted to write.
