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    How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-journey Map to Success
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    How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-journey Map to Success
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    How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-journey Map to Success

    By Gordon Burgett

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    Before you write your book, pick the right publisher!
    That’s why I just wrote a no-nonsense how-to e-book called “How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-Journey Map to Success,” to help you do the necessary prep work first so your words see print (and you see lots of income) ASAP!
    That’s on the assumption that you want your book in print right now (or very soon), you want it to look just like you plan it (including your title and layout), you want to snag every last reward—and you want these benefits in the bag before you write the first word!
    What’s in How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher?

    Section 1: The publishing choices
    Section 2: Tools to help you make your selection(s)
    Section 3: How do you pick the right publisher?
    Section 4: Specific information about the seven publishing venues
    Section 5: Publishing paths to consider
    Plus a BONUS REPORT:
    “12 Ways to Turn Your Book Into Many More...”

    This is a great time to publish your book. There are lots of choices of publishing houses (or you can do it yourself better and cheaper than ever), there’s more access to selling distribution, and you can sell your book through as many as eight or nine publishers (including yourself) simultaneously!

    There’s even a miracle: there are publishers that will put your book out absolutely free (in hours, if digital) or in days (if bound)—and they will market it worldwide!

    Right now you have lots of publishing choices! So I wrote this e-book, in response to so many questions at my seminars or through my newsletter, which can be summarized this way: “How do I pick the right publisher, and which do I use in what order?”

    I’m Gordon Burgett and I’ve been writing and publishing for decades (40 of my own books and about 100 items through my publishing company), plus I’ve written a couple of key books in the industry. So here I’ll help you answer that question for your own situation, for now or when your book(s) are ready to see light!

    Here are some of things the e-book explains...
    * 3 historical paths to publishing your work(s),
    * a new path where 7 publishers want to do it free for you,
    * a fifth and sixth path, both hybrid, and
    * and a seventh where it’s all done with 0’s and 1’s, and no inventory

    To do this much faster and surer, I will show you how to
    * answer the three most important questions,
    * prioritize the 7 rewards you want (and deserve),
    * have on paper the book standard your book must meet before you put it in print,
    * decide how much (if any) of the actual publishing you want to do, and
    * plot your book on the “Publishing Rewards Chart” information
    At some point you want your words in print; “How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher” will help you make that happen!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGordon Burgett
    Release dateOct 26, 2011
    ISBN9781465980465
    How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher: A Pre-journey Map to Success
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    Gordon Burgett

    Gordon Burgett has 46 books and 1700+ published articles in print, has given 2000+ paid speaking presentations, and offers a free monthly newsletter at www.gordonburgett.com/free-reports. He posts at his blog at http://blog.gordonburgett.com twice weekly and discusses publishing, niche marketing, and selling one's writing.

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      How to Pick the Right Kind of Publisher - Gordon Burgett

      HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT

      KIND OF PUBLISHER

      A Pre-Journey Map to Success

      How to get your book in print, make it just like you want,

      and snag every last reward—

      before you write the first word

      Gordon Burgett

      .

      © 2011 by Communication Unlimited,

      Smashwords edition.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      SECTION ONE The Publishing Choices

      Let’s create a pre-journey map to success

      Let’s throw in a miracle too!

      Historically there have been two main paths to getting in print

      The second path to print was actually two kinds of self-publishing

      Now there’s a new fourth path: a publisher (or seven) eager to put your book in print, fast and almost free

      The fifth and sixth kinds of publishing are hybrid blends

      The seventh example: e-books as customized digital publishing

      SECTION TWO Tools to Help Make Your Selection

      Starter Questions

      Rewards You Want

      Your Book Standard

      Your Direct Involvement in the Publishing

      7 Kinds of Publishing

      Publishing Rewards Chart

      SECTION THREE How Do You Pick the Right Publisher?

      SECTION FOUR Specific Information About the Seven Publishing Venues

      Traditional (Big House) Book Publishing

      Self-Publishing: Traditional Marketing

      Self-Publishing: Niche Marketing

      Ancillary Book Publishing

      Self-Publishing: Mixed Marketing

      Combination: Self-Publishing and Ancillary Publishing

      E-Books from A Website Anchor

      SECTION FIVE Publishing Paths to Consider

      BONUS REPORT Twelve Ways to Turn Your Book into Many More

      References

      About the Author

      Related Products and Services

      Introduction

      It used to be easy to pick out the right kind of publisher, and you could be almost certain of success, or lack of, by how your few choices responded.

      If you had a finished novel or a book for kids, you headed for the big house publishers. You might try self-publishing for anything in nonfiction—or a big house. And if it was to a niche market, you should try the new niche self-publishing category.

      No ancillary publishing or e-books. The mixed marketing through self-publishing, or some other combo blend, was pretty much in the future.

      2011 is a great time to publish. Lots of choices, more access to selling distribution, several alternative versions of the same book (bound, digital, and seven chances to have the book being sold simultaneously).

      Which is why I’m writing this e-book, because its title (as a question) is what I am now most frequently asked. What follows is my answer, plus three operational steps that will make the book creation easier and the end result better. I hope it helps.

      SECTION ONE: The Publishing Choices

      Most writers never enjoy book publishing success because they can’t or don’t know how to get their words properly in print. They can write well enough and have a salable idea, they just can’t get all the money-making parts together.

      If that’s you—or you just want to do it better!—let’s get you over that hurdle, so you can get your book quickly and profitably in print, the book looks like you want it to, and you get every last reward you deserve.

      Of course that is never the problem in the movies. A person decides to write a book. They pick up a quill or a pen or they start typing on a computer. They are still at it late that night, and the next morning they are waving their book wildly overhead, completely written, printed, and bound!

      Heavens, if were that simple we’d all write 500 of them!

      I’ve labored through 39 published books and I must be a dullard because it always took me months rather than hours—and there was a whole lot more work involved.

      But I did figure out how to reduce the time, energy, and sometimes sheer drudgery of chipping an opus out of whole rock, as well as how to boost the rewards and expand the lifetime payback manifold. Let me share the shortcuts to success here.

      Let’s create a pre-journey map to success

      The best time you can invest in a new book is the hours you spend plotting what your book is about, who would care a whit to buy it, what publisher can best make it sell, what title it needs, how

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