Book distribution tips for aspiring and established authors? Consider Your Book Cover Design Carefully: Your book cover design is an important tool for marketing your book to readers. With great print quality and a good cover design, no one will be able to tell your self-published book from one that’s published by a major traditional publisher. It’s good to educate yourself on what makes a good book cover design, but if you aren’t a designer by trade, it’s also best to hire a professional.
Linked In: Develop a presence at the place for professionals to develop business contacts. Discuss topics with other authors and small publishers. Company Logo: Have a logo designed for your publishing company. Place it on every piece of correspondence, your web page and on social networking sites to spread the word. Create a Website: Obtain a domain name for your company, book title or your name. Have a website created that showcases information about your book, including excerpts, an image of your book cover and a way for book orders to be submitted back to you via the web. We recommend a company like American Author.com who can do the setup work for you.
Use your limits. Self-published author and founder of ALLi (Alliance for Independent Authors) Orna Ross told us that the key to productivity is to use the limits that life imposes on you: “If you say to someone ‘here’s a blank page, go write something,’ you’re frozen. The limit allows you to do it… People who think they could write if their circumstances are otherwise—that’s wrong thinking. You finish after a few hours anyway.”
POD Submission 6 x 9 Perfect Bound or smaller – includes ISBN, LCCN, Bar Code, Interior Layout / Formatting (Black and White or Color), Cover finish in full color gloss or matte, client can provide high res art (we will provide a template for your designer) or we will create a custom cover for you (see custom book cover option), Perfect Bound, Worldwide Distribution, Bibliography Cataloging, Meta Data, Key Word Tagging, Book Order Fulfillment, Page Count between 18 -1200 pages, White Stock (50lb or 70lb) or Cream Stock (50lb only) Stock, Unlimited Wholesale Printing, Non-Exclusive Contract, Author Maintains All Rights, Author Support via Phone, Online Chat and Email, One Revision After Proof on Layout, Print to Author, Print to Customer, Print to Warehouse. 6×9 is an average size, however we will size your book for the optimal binding size. Read additional details at Publish my book.
First Edition Design Publishing currently accepts academic, poetry, novels and non-fiction. We also publish children’s books in various sizes, including landscape 11 x 8.5. Please visit our FAQ’s for proper format requirements. We accept orders from over 92 countries. We strategically have 12 print houses worldwide to meet all your shipping needs. If your book is specialized, we will place it into distribution venues geared specifically for your book. As an example, we have venues that specialize in genre specific areas such as Academic, Sci-Fi, Crime, Poetry, etc. We do not just send your title through an automated computer generating process, ALL pages of every title are reviewed and worked manually with human eyes. All languages are welcome for submission including Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese. All languages are welcome, however we will request an independent third party to verify content which is done at a nominal fee. We have the Largest Distribution in the Industry Worldwide.