When an author decides to publish their own book they bring with them a lifetime of experience. Their books usually grow out of this experience, and capitalize on their skills and knowledge. At a minimum, you need to know something to write a book. Usually, their experience doesn’t include any expertise in: Editing, proofreading, or […]
Self-Publishing Basics: Deciphering the Bookland EAN Bar Code
Self-publishers know that they must have an ISBN for their book if they want to sell through retail channels like bookstores. The ISBN not only identifies the publisher, the language group of the country the book is published in, and the specific title, it is also used to generate the scannable barcode found on the […]
Self-Publishing Review New Guest Post
Henry Baum’s remarkably useful Self-Publishing Review covers the field of self-publishing thoroughly. News, reviews of self-published books, reviews of publisher-services companies, interviews and more make it a great destination for anyone interested in the field. I find myself there once a day, just to check on what’s new. Self-Publishing Review has started a “Guest Post” […]
Self Publishing Basics: How to Read an ISBN
Some years ago, I published a book that landed on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review, which was quite a thrill for my wife and me, as we were running our publishing company from a spare bedroom in our house. Soon enough, the phone started to ring, and one call […]