Self Publishing - How Many Pages Should Your Book Have

How many pages should your self published book have?


One indicator is to look at best selling and/or popular books in your genre to get an idea for there page length.

Put yourself in the consumers shoes and ask yourself if you were browsing books in a similar genre and both were priced the same, but one seemed to offer more information which would you most likely purchase?

It has been my experience that there are a number of factors that contribute to a book selling or not selling. One of those factors is page count. Other factors include in no particular order your branding, marketing and promotions campaign, you ability to speak in front of people on a regular basis, your media hype machine (publicity), recommendations/endorsements from respected people in your genre, your burning desire, practical written plan and daily execution of that plan.

Visit How to Self Publish for Profit for more details on publishing, marketing, selling your book. Have you considered publishing your book as an ebook? You may want to read 12 Reasons to Self Publish Your Ebook.


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Self Publishing Tips to Sell

Self publishing tips to sell more books.


A friend and I were talking and he mentioned that he participated in a teleseminar and the host was sharing information he gathered from a self-publishing printer. The host asked the printer what is the average number of books sold by self-published authors. The printer replied 200 books. Many books retail between $10 and $20.

If you sell 200 books at $20/book you'll generate $4,000 U.S. Dollars. If you were generating $4,000 per month, was single with no dependents and not living in a major U.S. City you could make a decent living for yourself, but to only sell 200 books and earn $4,000 over the life of your book is a bit depressing from a business model standpoint. However if you've written and published your book for some other sentimental reason congrats you've hit the jackpot my friend.

For writers and self-published authors seeking to sell more books and make more money we need to focus on branding, marketing, promoting, publicizing and advertising ourselves and our books. One of the main reasons that your books may not be selling is because you've not properly identified your target market (book buyers).

If I wrote novels I'd seek out book clubs to pitch my book to. I'd come up with some qualifiers as not to waste my time or theirs (the book club). I'd forward one to three review copies of my books to the books club with a cover letter and order form should the club decide to order books. Any promotional material and marketing collateral I had would be included with the package. All you'd need is a few book clubs to bite (buy) and you're off and going.

In the absence of something you should create something. If there are no book clubs near your city you could start one. The local coffee shop, public library or civic center may be used as a neutral meeting location. In addition, to self-publishing your paperback or softcover book you'll want to resell your product as an ebook. Since, you're book is already in electronic form it wouldn't take much for you to get up an running. On make money self-publishing you'll find full details on self-publishing your own ebook.


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Self Publishing Book Conference

Below are basic instructions for organizing a self-publishing book conference. The event could start relatively small and grow from there to ensure it gets done by this year or within the next 6 to 9 months. 

Speakers present on:

1) Starting your own publishing company
2) Monetizing your web presence
3) How to self-publish your own book
4) Marketing and promoting your own book

Networking Component:

1) Market place for writer/authors/publishers to present their work
2) Official breakfast, lunch or dinner for the conference -award ceremony
3) Networking mixer -promote your business and/or book
4) Round table discussions on marketing, networking, finding readers, etc.

Finding Readers:

1) Create something that may encourage readers to attend all or some part of the conference -i'm not sure what this will be.

Make Money

1) Make the event cost-effective where more people would be willing to attend.
2) Make the event where most everyone has the ability to generate some form of revenue: -book buyers/readers, writers, authors, publishers, editors, etc.

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Self Publishing - Marketing Wisdom

Self-publishing marketing wisdom to help you better promote your book.

Traditional marketing wisdom teaches us that it takes about seven (7) impressions before people respond to an advertisement or marketing materials. This means they must hear, touch, taste, smell, see or otherwise experience something before they buy. If we hold that to be true it's safe to assume that if you were to enter a new market without any set up you are doomed to fail miserably for the most part, because most the people at the book expo or trade show would only have heard about you and your book for the first time. There are exceptions to the rule. For instance, if you are relentless in your efforts during the event you may be able to change your sell to impression conversion rate. In an attempt not to use to much jargon here are some solutions.

1) Prior to attending an event use social networking to tap into the local market. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.

2) Prior to going to an event create video and send it out to people using your social network platform

3) Hire a publicists or pr firm in the local market you're going to in an effort to get press. Ideally this should be done 6 to 9 months for print media. Obviously online media needs less time.

4) Do your on publicity or pr work informing the local market of your arrival and where you'll be signing books.

5) KNOW THIS: Branding, marketing, promotions, advertising and publicity is a 24/7 activity. If you're on the road traveling leave flyers in the gas station & restaurant in route. You never know who may see your material. I often leave flyers vividly displayed right at the gas pump. It works!

6) If you're on the plane give out flyers and business cards, etc. while waiting to board and while on board the plane. Every situation is an opportunity to sell many books.


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Self Publishing Residual Income

Self-publishing your own book is one of the many ways you may earn residual income from your intellectual property. With the ability to quickly and inexpensively create your own ebook there's no reason you shouldn't be in position to make money online self-publishing.

I had the opportunity to do a book signing with a young lady. She told me she had printed 1,000 books and was happy that she had sold nearly all of them and that she was preparing to write her second book. I said great how soon before you go to press to get more of your books that are nearly sold out. Her response "I hadn't thought about reprinting." WHAT, I replied have you ever considered that their are billions of people on earth. Your book is your intellectual property that should be reprinted and packaged as many times as the market will bear.

These books we write and publish I told her help set us up for residual/passive income that may be passed to future generations. This is how we continue to build our legacies I suggested. After that she said she would reprint her first book.

My point is many times we stop before we have begun with no fought of anyone or anything but ourselves.

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Self Publishing - Creative Imagination

When asking many writers what's prohibiting them from publishing their own book they'll often site money as their reason. More often than not when I have time to speak with them directly I find money isn't what's stopping them at all. In fact, it's safe to say that when you really desire to publish your book you'll find a way to make it so.

Surely, you remember a time when someone told you no and yet that didn't stop you from obtaining what you had a desire to obtain. Publishing your own book is no less different. In fact, you have the memory and wisdom of going through the spiritual, mental and practical conditioning to position yourself to get what you want if your desire is to truly publish your book.

Money has made many of us unable to tap into our creative imagination. Even before money it has been my experience that you need to have three things in order to succeed in most cases.

You Need:


A Burning Desire
A Practical Plan -preferably written
Daily Execution of your plan

Through your experience you too have found that while money may be used it isn't the thing that most will separate those who succeed and those who fail. After all, it's reported that Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before getting the light bulb right. When asked why did you keep on keeping on after failing 10,000 times, he replied I figured if I found all the ways that wouldn't work I was bound to find the way that would because I would have found all the wrong answers and the only answer left would be the right one.

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Self Publish Your Own Ebook

Self publish your own ebook and profit for years to come with little to no overhead. Once you set up a proper system for self-publishing your own ebook you'll have to do little to maintain your operations beyond marketing, promoting and customer service. Many of these publishing business services may be outsourced, freeing you to enjoy time with family, friends and involving yourself in philanthropic activities.

If you were to self publish your own e-book you may keep about 97% of the profit as there are no printing or shipping cost. In addition, the distributor nor the retailer participate in the revenue generation in some instances. For instance, when you sell your ebook direct from your website or blog. The upside in earning potential for your e-book far exceeds that of a paperback, especially as more of the world becomes connected to high speed internet access. Consider that you'll position yourself to participate in the global economy from the comfort of your own home, beach, yacht or island. Isn't that something?

     All of my books are available as paperback and ebooks. Tuesday this past week one of my books was downloaded from someone in Italy, I live in Atlanta. April 25, 2008 How to Self-Publish for Profit

With the right consulting one will see that this is the perfect time to put a great amount of energy into building their foundation for increased e-book sells. The seeds you plant today will yield the fruit you eat tomorrow. This is especially true as it relates to online (Internet) marketing and e-commerce.

If you already have a paperback book it may be fairly simple to start publishing your own ebook. It's important to remember that as a writer/publisher you want to have your books available in as many different places possible giving you the best opportunity for increases sells and long-term success.

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