Self Publish E Book

Does anyone who self published have experience with BookSurge?

I am looking to have a novel published and need editing, marketing, and printing. I like the idea of being my own publisher as I have published other how to books in the past and sold them on Amazon.com. I am considering one of the BookSurge packages. I assume Amazon.com would not let book surge work with them if they were not efficient. Can anyone share their experiences working with BookSurge? What is needed to market a self published book , e book, or with Kindle?. Thanks in advance. Jason

Fiction and how-to are very different in terms of whether self-publishing is the right decision. A how-to might easily have a niche market which will get you some sales by readers wanting to know exactly what you’re teaching.

But fiction’s a whole ‘nother story. Marketing a pay-to-publish book is damned difficult. Many of the avenues open to traditionally published authors are not available. Chain bookstores won’t host signings or carry copies (although they will order them for customers). Newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio don’t want your press releases and won’t do interviews. The library system won’t accept free copies. Writing- or book-related conventions won’t let you set up a sales or autograph table, don’t want you on their author panels, and forbid you giving away promotional material.

About the only marketing I’ve seen have any effect for self-published fiction authors is active participation at forums and chats dealing with the subject of their books. So if your book has baseball, or spies, or teenage girls in conflict with their mothers, find sites where people talk about those specific subjects. That’s your niche market.

Some sites may allow you to discuss your book *if someone asks about it* (but will ban you for bringing it up more than once). Some may allow a link to a point of sale in your profile, or to your blog or web-page which in turn links to a point of sale.

You’ll sell a few more copies than you might have, but overall, like most self-published books, regardless of quality, total sales will probably remain below 100 copies. More often, the number hovers somewhere around 2/3 to 3/4 of your total number of friends and family members, plus copies you buy yourself. This compares pretty unfavorably to the thousands of copies a moderately-selling book from a conventional publisher can anticipate.

I’m sorry not to be able to offer much real hope, but I figured you’d rather hear the truth than sugar-coated lies which might cause you to waste your time or money.

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