A publisher pays authors royalties in exchange for the rights to publish their work in book form. Royalty rates are percentages of book sales and they are entirely negotiable, though some publishers have standard royalty rates or standard royalty ranges that they try to stick to for the majority ofRead More →
Tom Corson-Knowles, Founder and CEO Tom Corson-Knowles is an entrepreneur, blogger, and international bestselling author. He started his first business at age 13, manufacturing SAD lamps out of his father’s garage. Where are the big 5 publishers located? Formerly known as “The Big 6” (until Random House and Penguin officiallyRead More →
It’s a subsection of the larger site, dedicated to a specific type of content. Vertical refers to them being fully-featured sites or application by themselves. What is a writing vertical? Vertical writing is used when the writing space is long vertically and narrow horizontally. For example, titles on the spinesRead More →
The cost of publishing a book varies greatly but self-published authors can expect to spend anywhere from $100-$2500 to publish a book based on additional book production costs like editing, cover design, formatting, and more, which we cover. To start, let’s look at a sample budget for publishing a book.Read More →
Royalties from Book Sales Book sales is the most obvious way to make money from self publishing. You will either earn royalties (from self publishing platforms such as Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing/KDP) or revenues (if you print, distribute and sell your book yourself). How can I publish a book withRead More →