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Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: Theodidactus on May 03, 2014, 11:13:44 AM

Title: Self Publishing?
Post by: Theodidactus on May 03, 2014, 11:13:44 AM
Hello everyone.

I've now finished a six month slog of trying to sell a book. No dice. I had promising leads early on but they've all backed out.

The subject matter is a bit...weird, so I really don't blame any of the 30 agents and 20 publishing editors I sent it to for turning it down. It's definitely not going to be a bestseller.

I'm currently deciding whether or not to abandon this project (this is the 3rd book I've written) and start something new, or try to sell this one as an ebook.

I understand some other people on the forum have done this.

I was wondering if you can recommend a good means of doing that, or give me your overall evaluation of how the process went and whether it was worth it.

Of course by "worth it" I don't mean "didja make lots of money? huh? didja?" because I've spent about 2,000 hours on this book over the last 4 years so in order to recoup my losses at the wage I'm accustomed to I'd need to make like, tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and that's frankly unrealistic. I just mean did you enjoy the experience and get a fair few people to actually read your book.

Title: Re: Self Publishing?
Post by: Erik L on May 03, 2014, 04:06:48 PM
Check out  lulu.com.
Title: Re: Self Publishing?
Post by: Theodidactus on May 03, 2014, 04:30:02 PM
yeah I'm familiar with the formats in an abstract way.

I am a librarian after all  ::)

But I don't know anyone that's actually tried any of them or consumed them.

Title: Re: Self Publishing?
Post by: Erik L on May 03, 2014, 06:04:08 PM
lulu.com is a print-on-demand publisher. They also support e-books. :)