My thoughts on the publishing future

As of late, I have been getting numerous questions on where do I think the bulk of the publishing world is going. The answer in short is going digital. I know, I know there are a lot of people that are from the traditional paper mill that will fight tooth and nail about this sort of thing. But, the reality is just look at the statistics of what the current selling trend is. There is no doubt that that digital books are on the rise by an astronomical rate. It cracks me up to read some posts by traditional publishers who try to fight tooth and nail that there is no way that this will be possible as the dominant source in the near future. It is more than logical to note that to publish digitally there is almost no production costs, unless you hire a third party to design your book. Not only that, there is no risk involved except for a crappy review if your work is under par. The other beauty is that if you are an indie author/publisher you literally can set your own price. This prevents killing the wallets of your customers during a recession where they have already sacrificed so much money to pay for their e-reading devices. Keeping your costs down will help tremendously to satisfy your customers. This is why I don't mind charging only a dollar or two dollars to sell my book in digital form. This keeps my readers happy and it increases the readership. If you were able to look at the Amazon sales rank most of the top 100 books are priced at ZERO dollars!!! That's right ZERO. Heck, when I get tired of seeing my books sell for a time, I am more than sure that my books will be downloadable currency free. There is no limit to promoting a book and what better way than to do it free? I could see why there are so many Kindle customers out there that are just banning digital books that are over $10. If it has to cost that much, then it might as well be in the bookstore. This is not the conditioong of online consumerism. When these big time publishers get the picture and those already talented authors get the message that you don't need someone from New York to validate your talents it is no doubt that the future is digital and those that try to fight it will be left behind. By the way for an unknown indie author/publisher our initial novel just broke into the top 9,000 for kindle sellers! That is something to say for a company that started a publishing press from their laptop in a townhome living room.

Kindle is selling

I just checked in on Kindle today and I have sold five books already for the month of December! I can't believe that it is actually selling better than my print version. OK well maybe I can believe it. The world is moving completely digital and if you care about the environment, how much more productive do you need to be? The book started out with only one sale in Oct, 3 in November, and already 4 in the first two weeks of December. This could prove to be very good going into the New Year. My thesis is underway at my seminary and I can't wait to get this STM degree. Back to the Kindle version of my print book. It has proven to be very useful in the 21st century. I can't even begin to name all of the digital hosts out there that are willing to sell books. The greatest resource of date for any young publisher is to go to www.smashwords.com. Mark Coker is a genius! It is all free and all it takes is one successful submission and your book is available in every digital format known to man. I finally broke down and got acclomated with twitter so to follow me just go to www.twitter.com/writingreverend God Bless!

The novel is complete and ready for sale!

It's been awhile since I've been here and I all I wanted to do was find someone to design and distribute my book! Well, the Lord answered my prayers when i finally got a call from Scribe Freelance. I orginally liked them, because they actually called me! Most of the time I was stuck with answering machines and snotty attitudes like they were the best thing since spread mustard! But, Scribe Freelance let me top out at $850 for the entire project. He did the cover design, interior layout, and even did my company logo. The turnaround was more that impressive....he got the entire project done in less than five days and two weeks later I see the thing up on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and booksamillion.com!! The distributor I went with was Lightning Source who has no problem getting your books all over the world. They are a direct department of Ingram and the results have been astounding. No one really took me serious as an author until I showed them the cover done by Daniel Middleton at Scribe Freelance and to show that it will be distributed all over the world within the next week. With Scribe Freelance I have been able to convert my work into Kindle formats and E-Book at no more than a combined $125! So for all of you who are going into Indi Publishing this is the way to go. It is cost effective and time efficient. If you have any questions or want to view the cover please check it out at this link http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-I-Get-Here/dp/0982556403

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