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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 7450717" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>In the trade, it's called vanity publishing. There are printers out there who will print your book <em>for a price</em> and give you x copies to distribute to friends and family. </p><p></p><p>A worthwhile writer should be able to find a publisher who will pay an attractive advance, then handle all the publicity and sales with a further royalties to the author for each copy sold. He might even get commissioned to write a book, especially if he is a known expert in his field.</p><p></p><p>Most publishers will not even bother opening a book (they don't actually read them but pay someone to do it!) for their readers read unless you have an agent to represent you, so that's a first step. But to get an agent, you probably need to be known or have some sort of reputation. A good way into writing is to get published in newspapers and magazines for which you might actually be paid. Letters to the editor is one way and writing on forums like this one is another. Good practice but not very profitable.</p><p></p><p>But be prepared. In the publishing trade, the writer is the lowest form of animal life and gets treated as such. Your articles may not even get acknowledged, let alone paid for! A book submitted without an agent will probably go straight into the trash.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you can publish a book. Best get a typographer to set it up for you, then hand it to a printer of which there are many. Then pay them and set about selling a few hundred copies which may not be as easy as you think it should be. Try farming. Shove a few seeds in the ground, harvest what grows, sell it at farmers' markets and make a fortune! Piece of cake!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 7450717, member: 4505"] In the trade, it's called vanity publishing. There are printers out there who will print your book [I]for a price[/I] and give you x copies to distribute to friends and family. A worthwhile writer should be able to find a publisher who will pay an attractive advance, then handle all the publicity and sales with a further royalties to the author for each copy sold. He might even get commissioned to write a book, especially if he is a known expert in his field. Most publishers will not even bother opening a book (they don't actually read them but pay someone to do it!) for their readers read unless you have an agent to represent you, so that's a first step. But to get an agent, you probably need to be known or have some sort of reputation. A good way into writing is to get published in newspapers and magazines for which you might actually be paid. Letters to the editor is one way and writing on forums like this one is another. Good practice but not very profitable. But be prepared. In the publishing trade, the writer is the lowest form of animal life and gets treated as such. Your articles may not even get acknowledged, let alone paid for! A book submitted without an agent will probably go straight into the trash. Yes, you can publish a book. Best get a typographer to set it up for you, then hand it to a printer of which there are many. Then pay them and set about selling a few hundred copies which may not be as easy as you think it should be. Try farming. Shove a few seeds in the ground, harvest what grows, sell it at farmers' markets and make a fortune! Piece of cake! [/QUOTE]
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