Concise, compact guide to self-publishing and promoting books, using new technologies to slash costs and reach readers more directly. Includes links to extensive online resources, which are updated regularly to keep readers up-to-date for years to come.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Starts out great, but turns into a sales pitch,
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This review is from: U-Publish.Com: How 'U' Can Effectively Compete With the Giants of Publishing (Paperback)
When I started reading this, it was exceedingly helpful. It gave a nice overview of various pieces of the book publishing industry, and some lower cost alternatives to traditional book publishing.By the second half, however, it became increasingly clear that the bulk of this book was just a sales pitch for their (difficult to navigate) web site, and all their other "books of lists". It seemed that every 2 or 3 pages, it would introduce a new concept, and then say "for more info", or "for a list of providers" buy book X, Y or Z for $19.95. For someone trying to push how low-cost self publishing has the option to be, it seemed odd to be encouraging potential authors or publishers to spend hundreds of dollars on other books. Especially when you get the nagging feeling that they're just going to ask you to buy even more books. There's better options than this book out there, Snow and Poynter don't need any more cash for low quality infomercials like this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Two years later...,
By "mecoxhudson" (Commack, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: U-Publish.Com: How 'U' Can Effectively Compete With the Giants of Publishing (Paperback)
Although informative and full of useful advice in the promotion section, in this fast-growing POD business, there is no way a book published in April 2000 can cover the latest technological developments in the field. And when it comes to lists of related services, many of these companies are no longer around, while others have acquired a good or bad reputation. An update of those is in order.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An education in itself,
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This review is from: U-Publish.com: How 'U' Can Compete with the Giants of Publishing (Paperback)
In this digital age, there are many more options for publication available to authors and because of it many are choosing to go independent with their work. However, as great as this is, sadly they are not learning the business before they do and instead only struggle and fail because they weren't prepared enough to succeed.
This book can remedy that. A brief but to the point work, Dan and Danny help walk the novice publisher/author through many of the necessary steps as they instruct them on how to write, produce, and economically present a marketable work to the public-moreover they also go into some of the options and give suggestions on where and how to sell it. If an author truly wants to pursue this method of publication then it is imperative that they obtain the necessary tools and information to do it correctly-and adding this book to their library should be considered one of those necessities! Well done, gentlemen! Reviewed by Dehanna Bailee, author of "The ABC's of POD: A Beginner's Guide to Fee-Based Print-on-Demand Publishing"
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