Publishing
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Maybe you guys can help me too, in regards to publishing. I wrote a book many years ago on quail hunting. Each chapter recalling different hunts. I had a publisher who wanted to be the first to review it. He liked it but passed on it . I would go through other publishers, one at a time, and they all passed, but all gave it a good review. Their reasons were all the same, quail hunting just not being the sport it use to be and they were afraid of being only a few readers out there. Now I’m not up to speed with computers and internet.
So my question is, what is E-Book? One publishing company offered me a contract but wanted self-publishing and my cost would have been close to $10,000. I couldn’t not handle that.Ebooks are electronic books downloaded from the internet. Kindle is a good example. To publish an ebook you’ll need to have the book in a MS word file to start with, then convert to Web Page Filtered, or Rich Tech File.
Today, with print-on-demand publishing, you can publish a book for relatively little.
There are several good books on these subjects.
Randy
Hey Jim –
I think the long and short of it is that instead of paying $10k, your expenses would be only a few hundred or less.
Hi,
You’ve been very patient!
To not answer your question directly:
You can get a better idea of your potential readers, maybe, if you already below to a group or association somehow linked to quail hunting. Are you part of “community” somehow?
For instance, I write about cane fly rods, outdoors/nature in Maine, but I already was attending rodmakers gatherings and part of Flyfishinginmaine.com. While I still had no way to be certain, I could at least bounce a draft off some people and see the reaction.
Do the people you know who would read your book use e-readers? Not that you know everyone who hunts, of course, but it’s something to think about.
So, some thoughts on topic: E-books have the advantage of no printing costs (paper, etc), so some publishers see them as a way to make a small niche book profitable. I really don’t know what you should expect in the contract, but I’ve heard 50%. If someone else does the publishing, including e-publishing, and you don’t want to do it yourself, you can factor in that when considering the contract.
Just my 2 cents,
Kat
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