Here’s how to market your book twice as fast and keep up to 90% of the profits for yourself.
Most people think that a publisher is going to sell a million copies of their book.
This is not true.
You can earn a lot more if you post for yourself.
This is why…
Let’s say you have a great idea. Lots of people want to take it and try to sell their book to a publisher. Why would I advise someone not to do that?
Well, you’re not going to sell a lot of copies unless you’re Steven King or somebody.
First of all, publishers don’t advertise your book. They publish it.
They ship it to bookstores and bookstores stack it up and hopefully when you walk into the store you’ll see it and buy it. Or, unless you’re smart, you may appear on radio shows and such to sell books.
But you will still only get a percentage from the publisher.
If you write a book and it gets published, you’re lucky if it sells 5,000 copies and you can get a dollar or two a copy. So that’s a maximum of $10,000 you’ll get from your book and no one can live on $10,000.
So, you’re basically going to make peanuts.
Sure, you’ll be proud of yourself when you walk into the bookstore and see your book on the shelf. You’re going to say, look what I did, but what does that get you?
It doesn’t give you any of that that you can spend.
And if you publish that book yourself, it could cost you a dollar to print that book in bulk and you can sell it for $20 and sell 5,000 copies each month.
Now, you’re talking about money!
But to do that, you have to do your own marketing and that’s the trick.
A lot of people when they do their first book don’t have the amount of money to advertise it.
Whether you publish on your own or choose to publish through a conventional publisher, your sales will be directly proportional to your advertising efforts.