Does anybody knows how to publish a book???

[bigheinz]

I finished my training and nutrition book, so i want to publish, or sell it, or i dont know what to do, some people tell me i need an agent? any advises???

 

[Love too compete]

My brother publish a book and he live in the U.S.A.Now he is talking about doing a E-Book if i'm right.I live in Canada so the next time i talk with him i will ask for you.He will be coming up to see me in a couple of weeks,but i bet you my get a post before i can give you a update.But i will get you all the sites so you can start as soon as i talk with him.

 

[bigheinz]

My brother publish a book and he live in the U.S.A.Now he is talking about doing a E-Book if i'm right.I live in Canada so the next time i talk with him i will ask for you.He will be coming up to see me in a couple of weeks,but i bet you my get a post before i can give you a update.But i will get you all the sites so you can start as soon as i talk with him.

Thanks bro i preceate your help. What cain of book he wrote, do you have any number of books he sold already. I cant figure out how it works, what the publisher does, what the agent does, how many books you can sell...etc.

 

[OuchThatHurts]

Heinz,

A publisher will not deal with you personally in most cases. This is where you would need an agent that the publisher will deal with. They will sell the publisher on why they should publish your book. Sometimes, if you're well known, it works well and the publisher pays you for your book and then you get royalties on sales. Other agreements are not so good if you're unknown and don't have a name for yourself and the publisher is presented with great risk in publishing your book. Then the amount you get reflects their risk.

Of course, you can self-publish your book where you pick up all the costs of design, layout, fact-checking if it's non-fiction, and then printing (all that). That can be a considerable amount of time and money. Let's say you now have 500 copies of your book printed and ready for the shelves. Then you have to take your books to bookstores and sell them copies that they believe will make them a profit or you can pay the owner for shelf-space and see if sales are good enough to justify all your costs.

There are also small-time desktop publishers who will do just about anything and everything you need for a cost.

Sometimes a book is a huge hit and then publishers will line up to print your stuff. Other times nobody buys a single copy and you have a room full of your books in your home.

It's very difficult and there is a ton more to it, but that's the reason why there's a lot of out-of-work writers out there. Hopefully someone can expand on all of this for you with more details.

Either way, I hope they fly off the shelves. Sign one and I'll buy the first copy!

take care

 

[littleguy]

never used them but you could contact them
www.mudscout.com

 

[free28]

You may want to look into an online publisher that can print copies on demand and then you can still sell through Amazon. It will help to keep initial costs low. Just a thought though

 

[anthony roberts]

I finished my training and nutrition book, so i want to publish, or sell it, or i dont know what to do, some people tell me i need an agent? any advises???

Although people often (incorrectly) think that I know how to get this done, I really don't.

My first book was written when I responded to an ad looking for profile writers, and I ended up being the only person willing to write as much as was needed. Steroid.com was the publisher.

My second book was written specifically for EliteFitness.com who told me that if I was willing to write an e-book, and it was of the quality that my previous work was, then they'd publish it.

My third book was published by someone that worked all of that out with the other author.

So...I mean...I never really had to look for a publisher, all of my books were basically insured to be published before I even started them.

Sorry I can't really help out.

 

[bigheinz]

My brother publish a book and he live in the U.S.A.Now he is talking about doing a E-Book if i'm right.I live in Canada so the next time i talk with him i will ask for you.He will be coming up to see me in a couple of weeks,but i bet you my get a post before i can give you a update.But i will get you all the sites so you can start as soon as i talk with him.

Thanks bro i wiil wait for you.

 

[bigheinz]

thank you all, i will keep trying to find the way.

 

[Love too compete]

Thanks bro i wiil wait for you.

My brother didn't come down in November,but the next time we take a will ask him for you it may take a little time but i will see to it for you.His book was on Adoption.

 

[Coopie]

Heinz...

You need an AGENT. The job of the agent is to go from publisher to publisher and "shop" (sell) your book to them until it's sold. This process can take weeks, in most cases it takes years! Most first-time publishers wait years for their books to get picked up. When they do, you will receive a small, one-time payment in exchange for the rights to publish the book. The publisher may or may not even publish it, but you will get paid regardless.

Novelist Nick Sparks received $5,000 for the rights to publish "THE NOTEBOOK". It became a hit book and later a hit movie. Still, he received only $5,000 and it took his agent over 6 years to sell the book to the publisher. For his second book he was paid $14 million. I saw Nick Sparks interviewed just the other day and he commented that if he had to go out and sell his book, he would have given up after a month!

Bottom line, use an agent, that's their job.

 

[bigheinz]

You need an AGENT. The job of the agent is to go from publisher to publisher and "shop" (sell) your book to them until it's sold. This process can take weeks, in most cases it takes years! Most first-time publishers wait years for their books to get picked up. When they do, you will receive a small, one-time payment in exchange for the rights to publish the book. The publisher may or may not even publish it, but you will get paid regardless.

Novelist Nick Sparks received $5,000 for the rights to publish "THE NOTEBOOK". It became a hit book and later a hit movie. Still, he received only $5,000 and it took his agent over 6 years to sell the book to the publisher. For his second book he was paid $14 million. I saw Nick Sparks interviewed just the other day and he commented that if he had to go out and sell his book, he would have given up after a month!

Bottom line, use an agent, that's their job.

Thanks bro, i understand, where to find an agent???

 

[Coopie]

If you've seen books like the one you're planning on writing then a good idea is to either write to (or call) the author or write (or call) the publisher and ask who the agent was for that author.

Alternatively, local bookstores usually host evenings where they have authors do readings of their books and sign autographs and answer questions and stuff - just go to one and ask the author yourself!

The last thing you want to do is look up "literary agent" in the phone book!