The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully

Scan some unrelated to my book, make note on useful part.
Summary: from figuring out the right idea to locating and landing a agent; to selling your book to appropriate publisher or self-publishing; to understanding the contract; to getting paid; to sitting down and writing the book; to becoming savvy about publicity, marketing, e-media and social networking; to setting up the website; to planning and executing a event; to making a promotional video; to be on bestseller lists.

Making your book the best book it can possible be should always be your first priority.
Publication Standard: "The Chicago Manual of Style" about fair use, CIP
author guilds:

by David Sterry (2005, former edition, because title wasn't search-friendly, for a new edition, author changed the name )
https://thebookdoctors.com
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New way of publishing:
1. Go to web, blog it your book first, build your audience.
2. e-book, self-publishing, a print edition via print-on-demand,or offset printer
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About website: most from chapter 2
Branding
A simple website design cost $250
Name of your website: by author name; by book title titular 标题的
Authenticity about your words: personable but no personal
flame email: nasty email. media platform is 10 times more likely to be negative than positive.

publicity vs marketing: publicity is when you get it for free. For example, an article in The New York Times is publicity and an ad on the Times' website is marketing.
influencer marketing

Sale Reps: start as early as six months, sales reps begin convince bookstore to order the book. Usually is 30-60 seconds for the book. Questions like: How do I sell this? Who is the audience? When sale reps say: “I’ve read this book and I know you can sell it,” that make a big difference.

It is very important turn your name into a face. Schedule a meeting six months before publication and preferably before to sales conference. You want to walk into the meeting with
1. Pitch:
2. Presentation, often competition, publicity, marketing section in Proposal
3. better comp (comparison titles), positioning
4. Ask everyone for a card, so you can refer to people by name, etc.

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literary Agent (a mid to large-size publishers, your book goes to literacy agent, small publishers go to editor): buffer between you and editors and publisher. Usually you need agent if you want advance. Most agencies charge a 15% commissions on advances, royalties and most subsidiary sales, except for foreign rights. Agent may submit exclusive, not-quite-exclusive,or many editors.

Editor
Publisher (publicizing, marketing)
Media
Bookstore

700 hours writing

rights (worldwide vs. North American)
film rights
audio rights

investment in the book:
an advance payment and royalties to the author, editorial guidance, promotion, marketing, or advertising, publicity
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Making deal:
1. Check publishing teams -from your editor, publicity people, marketing and sales, take a good measure, take notes on everyone.
2. How long wait: within a week or two of your submission.
3. deal memo , see page 179

Chapter 7 Let's make a deal
offers come in 3 ways: 1) preemptive offers 2)auctions (either round-robin or best-bid) 3) individual offers.
in round-robin, all editors make first-round bids (except for floor-holder), each offer has to top the previous bid by a minimum usually 10%. Once all bids have been made, the floor-holder gets an opportunity to make one final, topping bid, typically 10% higher than the last bid.
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About the money: more contents are in Chapter 8: Contract facts
Most publisher need at least nine months to do the preparation to launch a book properly.

--advance: formally referred as an advance against realities. cash advanced to you before the book stars making money. Bonus either bestseller bonus or earn-out bonus is not like the bonus an employees get at the end of the year for work well done. It's just money added to the pool of money you already have to earn out . The equivalent of an added advance check. For author, if their book sell 0, the advance belongs to the author unless you don't finished the book, or if the book is not accepted by the publisher.

--Royalty: percentage of the sale for each copy sold goes to you.
Hardcover
10% to 5,000 copies
12.5% to 10,000 copies
15% thereafter

Trade Paperback
7.5% for all copies

Mass-market paperback
8% to 150,000 copies
10% thereafter
Escalator royalty, usually up if your book copies exceed certain amount. But it can go down. It's common practice for publishers to reduce the royalty on reprint of a limited number of copies, giving the author's what's called a small printing royalty. Be sure it can occur only once a year, so that if the publisher ends up doing multiple small printing during the year, you get a reduced royalty for only one of these printing.
example: earn out its advance, retail price $20, 10% royalty, advance $20,000, in order to get a first royalty check, need sale 10,000 copies. 10,000 * 20 * 10% = 20,000

e-books
Model for e-book is called agency model because Apple - any other retail - would be taking a 30% commission as "selling agent." Don't confuse this with literary agent. For example, e-book price is $10, $3 goes to apple, $7 go to publisher. If you get 25% royalty of e-book often refer to "Net receipt"
Some publishers, especially small ones, work off net price, not list price . Typically, net is approximately 50% of list price. So royalty on net price often twice the standard royalty on list price.

Deep discount on chains like Walmart and Costco, Target. Usually royalty is 2/3 of the prevailing royalty rate.

Copyright: always retain the copyright to your work. Under all circumstance, it states in your contract that publisher shall register the copyright in your name.

附属权(subsidiary right)
series right: 连载权，即许可他人在图书出版之前或之后在报纸、杂志上连载整部作品或其中部分篇章的权利
foreign right: in all midsize to major publishing houses, there are people who try to see your book overseas. In most case, usually through subagent rather than directly to foreign publishers.

Publisher primary right: hardcover, paperback, electronic versions of the book sold in the North America (or wherever publisher is). Sales of the work in different format - audiobook, a TV show, a large-print edition, etc are considered subsidiary rights.

Vocabulary:
blurb (通过护封简介)吹捧(作家)
Flap copy: is the text that appears on the inside flap(s) of the dust jacket wrapped around a book. Its sole purpose is to inform the reader what the book is about--beyond what is obvious from the front cover and in doing so, "hook" the potential reader in a persuasive way.
Back cover copy: is the blurb on the back of a book
copywriter: 广告文字撰写人a person whose job is to write the words for advertising material

Four-color: industry language for "full-color".
mass-market paperback 平装: pages made from newsprint paper, are often sold through special distributors, as a magazine would be.
trade paperback: nice paper, pricier paper, sold through regular book channels.
trade book: a book published by a commercial publisher and intended for general readership.

Format: Hard, Paper, Trade, mass or E?
The New York Times does review usually on hardcovers. Hardcovers often spell prestige, mass-market paperbacks for supermarket.

If the book was given a two-page catalog, an announced first printing of 50,000 or more and a long list of publicity and marketing commitment, you can be pretty sure your publisher is pulling out all the stops.

Author photo: go in the back of the book or on the back flap, you pay for it.
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About writing: chapter 9 Write away
first draft vs. manuscript
Fair use, page 212, see "The Chicago Manual of Style"
see Appendix IV for permission forms.
How to revise:
--cutting away fat, eliminate redundancy. Streamline every chapter
--Reading right out loud
--then turn in manuscript
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Chapter 10: Working with your publisher
Editorial departments: editor in chief -> editorial director -> executive editors ->senior editors ->editors ->associate editors -> assistant editors .
acquiring editors: editors regardless rank who acquire books.
Most contracts stipulate editor must provide editorial feedback within 60 days.

Copy editor: nitpicks spelling, punctuation, grammar, consistency of scripts, may check facts. This work can take from a week to a month or more. Once you receive a copy of your copy-edited manuscript, you need go through, approving or disapprove every comment and correction. You have a week or two do so. You may require some back and forth with your editor (you almost never have direct contact with your copy editor). The moment the book is handed off to the copy editor is often the moment considered officially accepted. 我对此有错误的了解,这是最后一道工序.

Once you've returned copy-edited manuscript , it sent to a typesetter and turn into page proofs . This time point out errors in typesetting and making small, last-minutes adjustments.

books are manufactured by binding together signatures of 16 or 32. 【印】装钉用折叠号码

Bound Galleys. A Bound Galley is the pre-publication version of an upcoming published book that is a printed, perfect bound book. bound galleys do not include any of changes you make to your proofs. And these bound galleys will go to a number of book reviewers. However, all bound galley have a prominent label instructing reviewers not to quote anything from text without checking the finished book.

Cataloging: include 8 to 9 nuggets of info, include publication date, price, cover image, author photos etc. Catalog copy: 出版商的图书目录
Catalogs are organized according to season. a pub date: reserve publishing blockbusting.

Title and subtitle: approval or mutual agreement.

Cover Design: typestyle, color palettes. Get to cover designer sooner the better, more specific
spinal column design: contain title /or subtitle.

Categorization p257: cataloging-in-publication data on CIP forms
David Williamson:David Williamson has been at the Library of Congress since 1982. His entire career at the Library has been in cataloging. CIPs: on "The Chicago Manual of Style"

editor-at-large: roving editor. "At large" means the editor has no specific assignments, but rather works on whatever interests them.
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Chapter 12 Publicity and Marketing and Chapter 13
Your book is only new for 3 months. You have to pack everything you can into those first three months.

traditional approach: book review, bookstore events, publisher-sponsored tour
Usually publicist will be assigned to you by publisher. Make her/his job simple by being easy to locate, to work with, quick to come up with anything she needs on an ASAP basis. If she/he is enthusiastic about your book, it is a good sign to any bookstore owners. Publicists does not mind authors have preferences and dislikes, but they like to tell in advance so they know what works or doesn't.
in-house publicist vs.outside publicists

Author questionnaire: one paragraph bio or one-page bio.
Reassessing your pitch
Blurb wrangling ( also called endorsements, send bound manuscript out)
Audience Angling

Galley Action: galley copy after page proofs ( usually publisher give you as a few as 5) or bound copies (if publisher isn't printing alleys, a page proofs of bound copies) get them to foreign publishes if you've retained the foreign rights to your book. Today electronic one is most common, but paper is still better than e-version.

Free Content as buzz-builder: Most sites prefer excerpts of 7,00 to 1,000 words in length. You can offer excerpts or "Look Inside" privileges to heavily trafficked site like Scribd, Google books, Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.

Camera: Find out before your interview where the producers would like you to like. It's almost always better not to look at the camera.

Escort: a person who pick you up at airport.... be nice to them.

interview: passion is what has been fueling our book the whole time, is what will make you a good interview, is what sell your book and make you an interesting and captivating speaker. be prepared to be misquoted and know that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Don't start sending letters to the editor, you'll most likely comes off as a whining boob. Larry Mantle prefer the person to have right energy without being overwhelmed, funny without being Shticky, intelligent but accessible. If it's too complex, it's boring. If it's too simple, it is dull. No abstract concept, just real stories that people can related to.

Snarked remark: if you get bashed, pilloried, dismissed, railed upon or savaged, just remember the words of Oscar Wilde: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Be prepared. Always business. Never Personal.

Award: for some awards, it maybe nominated in more than one category.

Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Goodreads, BookArmy
If you're still in prepublication state, any reviewed will be from trade publications such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus and Library Journal.
Fresh Air, Today Show
Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestsellers

Chapter 14 The fine art of selling
What your publishers rely on are guesses based on preorders.
Although Discount retailers such as Costo account for a large percentage of all book sale, they tends to concentrate on best sellers or references books; by comparison, only 5% of B&N's total sales are bestsellers.

120,000 libraries

Amazon Affiliate: establish account. This program will allow you to set up a direct on your site to your book page on Amazon. For each sale that comes through the link on your site, you make a small percentage.
Amazon Sale rank: rates your book in comparison to other books they sell, it may or may not related to whole sale, even not related to local bookstores.
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About proposal:
1. Getting titular: Title and subtitles
2. Perfecting your pitch: what your book is about
Elevator pitch: short pitch, which is over by the time the elevators get the next door
Long-from pitch: under a minutes, usually on book flap (dust jacket, book jacket) or backs of paperback, that is flap and back cover copy.
3. The Nonfiction proposal
--No need finish manuscript, instead shorter is better and less is more
--95% of the time, publishers are likely to shell out good money if they read a dazzling sample chapter or two to get the voice and point of view, more than that can harm.
--Proposal
Table of Contents
Overview
Bio
Audience
Competition
Special marketing and promotional opportunities
Manuscript specification
Outline
Sample Chapters (the other is the skin and bones, the sample chapters are heart and soul. 1-3 sample chapters, about 20-50 pages)
type-style: Garamond and Times New Romans, margin 1 1/4'' on either side. Keep it short. Keep it tight. Double-spaced.

--Cover design, AIGA, author hire a student design cover for $250
--p101-102 where to find editor, professional readers (local bookstore), universities.

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About publishers:
publishers marketplace : e-reports of deals.
Publishers Weekly
Appendix II
Appendix III
by Jeff Herman

Publishers Type:
p138
---Random House is owned by Bertelsman, which also bought among others, Crown, Knopf, Doubleday, Bantam and Dell. These are now called Division. And within each division, there may be a number of imprints. For examples, the imprints within the Crown Publishing Group include Clarkson Potter, Harmony Books and Three Rivers Press.

---A small press ( indie publisher or independent press ) is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level. (U.S. $50 million). publish an average of fewer than 10 titles per year.

Independent press: defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations. Including university presses, W. W. Norton & Company, Workman, Soft Skull Press. There two types of independent publishers: One is still looking to make direct contact with writers and readers, through word of mouth and online. The second has already established a reputation to such an extent that now the better agent send them potential projects as well.

Small presses should not be confused with self-publishing presses (sometimes called "vanity presses"). Self-publishing or subsidy presses usually require payment by authors, or a minimum purchase of copies. By comparison, small presses make their profits by selling books to consumers, rather than selling services to authors or selling a small number of copies to the author's friends.

literary 文学的
literacy 识字；素养；有读写能力

070.52 ECKScan some unrelated to my book, make note on useful part.Summary: from figuring out the right idea to locating and landing a agent; to selling your book to appropriate publisher or self-publishing; to understanding the contract; to getting paid; to sitting down and writing the book; to becoming savvy about publicity, marketing, e-media and social networking; to setting up the website; to planning and executing a event; to making a promotional video; to be on bestseller lists.Making your book the best book it can possible be should always be your first priority.about fair use, CIPauthor guilds: https://www.authorsguild.org/ (for law issue) Putting Your Passion Into Print: Get Your Book Published Successfully! by David Sterry (2005, former edition, because title wasn't search-friendly, for a new edition, author changed the name ) https://thebookdoctors.com ===================New way of publishing:1. Go to web, blog it your book first, build your audience.2. e-book, self-publishing, a print edition via print-on-demand,or offset printer===================About website: most from chapter 2BrandingA simple website design cost $250Name of your website: by author name; by book title titular 标题的Authenticity about your words: personable but no personalflame email: nasty email. media platform is 10 times more likely to be negative than positive.publicity vs marketing: publicity is when you get it for free. For example, an article in The New York Times is publicity and an ad on the Times' website is marketing.Sale Reps: start as early as six months, sales reps begin convince bookstore to order the book. Usually is 30-60 seconds for the book. Questions like: How do I sell this? Who is the audience? When sale reps say: “I’ve read this book and I know you can sell it,” that make a big difference.It is very important turn your name into a face. Schedule a meeting six months before publication and preferably before to sales conference. You want to walk into the meeting with1. Pitch:2. Presentation, often competition, publicity, marketing section in Proposal3. better comp (comparison titles), positioning4. Ask everyone for a card, so you can refer to people by name, etc.===================literary Agent (a mid to large-size publishers, your book goes to literacy agent, small publishers go to editor): buffer between you and editors and publisher. Usually you need agent if you want advance. Most agencies charge a 15% commissions on advances, royalties and most subsidiary sales, except for foreign rights. Agent may submit exclusive, not-quite-exclusive,or many editors.EditorPublisher (publicizing, marketing)MediaBookstore700 hours writingrights (worldwide vs. North American)film rightsaudio rightsinvestment in the book:an advance payment and royalties to the author, editorial guidance, promotion, marketing, or advertising, publicity===================Making deal:1. Check publishing teams -from your editor, publicity people, marketing and sales, take a good measure, take notes on everyone.2. How long wait: within a week or two of your submission.3., see page 179Chapter 7 Let's make a dealoffers come in 3 ways: 1) preemptive offers 2)auctions (either round-robin or best-bid) 3) individual offers.in round-robin, all editors make first-round bids (except for floor-holder), each offer has to top the previous bid by a minimum usually 10%. Once all bids have been made, the floor-holder gets an opportunity to make one final, topping bid, typically 10% higher than the last bid.===================About the money: more contents are in Chapter 8: Contract facts--advance: formally referred as an advance against realities. cash advanced to you before the book stars making money. Bonus either bestseller bonus or earn-out bonus is not like the bonus an employees get at the end of the year for work well done. It's just money added to the pool of money you already have to. The equivalent of an added advance check. For author, if their book sell 0, the advance belongs to the author unless you don't finished the book, or if the book is not accepted by the publisher.--Royalty: percentage of the sale for each copy sold goes to you.Hardcover10% to 5,000 copies12.5% to 10,000 copies15% thereafterTrade Paperback7.5% for all copiesMass-market paperback8% to 150,000 copies10% thereafterEscalator royalty, usually up if your book copies exceed certain amount. But it can go down. It's common practice for publishers to reduce the royalty on reprint of a limited number of copies, giving the author's what's called a small printing royalty. Be sure it can occur only once a year, so that if the publisher ends up doing multiple small printing during the year, you get a reduced royalty for only one of these printing.example: earn out its advance, retail price $20, 10% royalty, advance $20,000, in order to get a first royalty check, need sale 10,000 copies. 10,000 * 20 * 10% = 20,000e-booksModel for e-book is called agency model because Apple - any other retail - would be taking a 30% commission as "selling agent." Don't confuse this with literary agent. For example, e-book price is $10, $3 goes to apple, $7 go to publisher. If you get 25% royalty of e-book often refer toSome publishers, especially small ones, work off. Typically, net is approximately 50% of list price. So royalty on net price often twice the standard royalty on list price.Deep discount on chains like Walmart and Costco, Target. Usually royalty is 2/3 of the prevailing royalty rate.Copyright: always retain the copyright to your work. Under all circumstance, it states in your contract that publisher shall register the copyright in your name.附属权(subsidiary right)series right: 连载权，即许可他人在图书出版之前或之后在报纸、杂志上连载整部作品或其中部分篇章的权利foreign right: in all midsize to major publishing houses, there are people who try to see your book overseas. In most case, usually through subagent rather than directly to foreign publishers.Publisher primary right: hardcover, paperback, electronic versions of the book sold in the North America (or wherever publisher is). Sales of the work in different format - audiobook, a TV show, a large-print edition, etc are considered subsidiary rights.Vocabulary:blurb (通过护封简介)吹捧(作家)Flap copy: is the text that appears on the inside flap(s) of the dust jacket wrapped around a book. Its sole purpose is to inform the reader what the book is about--beyond what is obvious from the front cover and in doing so, "hook" the potential reader in a persuasive way.Back cover copy: is the blurb on the back of a bookcopywriter: 广告文字撰写人a person whose job is to write the words for advertising materialFour-color: industry language for "full-color".mass-market paperback 平装: pages made from newsprint paper, are often sold through special distributors, as a magazine would be.trade paperback: nice paper, pricier paper, sold through regular book channels.trade book: a book published by a commercial publisher and intended for general readership.Format: Hard, Paper, Trade, mass or E?The New York Times does review usually on hardcovers. Hardcovers often spell prestige, mass-market paperbacks for supermarket.If the book was given a two-page catalog, an announced first printing of 50,000 or more and a long list of publicity and marketing commitment, you can be pretty sure your publisher is pulling out all the stops.Author photo: go in the back of the book or on the back flap, you pay for it.===================About writing: chapter 9 Write awayfirst draft vs. manuscript, page 212, see "The Chicago Manual of Style"see Appendix IV for permission forms.How to revise:----Reading right out loud--then turn in manuscript===================Chapter 10: Working with your publisherEditorial departments: editor in chief -> editorial director -> executive editors ->senior editors ->editors ->associate editors -> assistant editors .acquiring editors: editors regardless rank who acquire books.Most contracts stipulate editor must provide editorial feedbackCopy editor: nitpicks spelling, punctuation, grammar, consistency of scripts, may check facts. This work can take from a week to a month or more. Once you receive a copy of your copy-edited manuscript, you need go through, approving or disapprove every comment and correction. You have a week or two do so. You may require some back and forth with your editor (you almost never have direct contact with your copy editor).我对此有错误的了解,这是最后一道工序.Once you've returned copy-edited manuscript , it sent to a typesetter and turn into. This time point out errors in typesetting and making small, last-minutes adjustments.books are manufactured by binding together signatures of 16 or 32. 【印】装钉用折叠号码Bound Galleys. A Bound Galley is the pre-publication version of an upcoming published book that is a printed, perfect bound book. bound galleys do not include any of changes you make to your proofs. And these bound galleys will go to a number of book reviewers. However, all bound galley have a prominent label instructing reviewers not to quote anything from text without checking the finished book.Cataloging: include 8 to 9 nuggets of info, include publication date, price, cover image, author photos etc. Catalog copy: 出版商的图书目录Catalogs are organized according to season. a pub date: reserve publishing blockbusting.Title and subtitle: approval or mutual agreement.Cover Design: typestyle, color palettes. Get to cover designer sooner the better, more specificspinal column design: contain title /or subtitle.Categorization p257: cataloging-in-publication data on CIP formsDavid Williamson:David Williamson has been at the Library of Congress since 1982. His entire career at the Library has been in cataloging. CIPs: on "The Chicago Manual of Style"editor-at-large: roving editor. "At large" means the editor has no specific assignments, but rather works on whatever interests them.===================Chapter 12 Publicity and Marketing and Chapter 13You have to pack everything you can into those first three months.traditional approach: book review, bookstore events, publisher-sponsored tourUsually publicist will be assigned to you by publisher. Make her/his job simple by being easy to locate, to work with, quick to come up with anything she needs on an ASAP basis. If she/he is enthusiastic about your book, it is a good sign to any bookstore owners. Publicists does not mind authors have preferences and dislikes, but they like to tell in advance so they know what works or doesn't.in-house publicist vs.outside publicistsAuthor questionnaire: one paragraph bio or one-page bio.Reassessing your pitchBlurb wrangling ( also called endorsements, send bound manuscript out)Audience AnglingGalley Action: galley copy after page proofs ( usually publisher give you as a few as 5) or bound copies (if publisher isn't printing alleys, a page proofs of bound copies) get them to foreign publishes ifthe foreign rights to your book. Today electronic one is most common, but paper is still better than e-version.Free Content as buzz-builder: Most sites prefer excerpts of 7,00 to 1,000 words in length. You can offer excerpts or "Look Inside" privileges to heavily trafficked site like Scribd, Google books, Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.Camera: Find out before your interview where the producers would like you to like.Escort: a person who pick you up at airport.... be nice to them.interview:be prepared to be misquoted and know that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Don't start sending letters to the editor, you'll most likely comes off as a whining boob. Larry Mantle prefer the person to have right energy without being overwhelmed, funny without being Shticky, intelligent but accessible. If it's too complex, it's boring. If it's too simple, it is dull. No abstract concept, just real stories that peopleSnarked remark: if you get bashed, pilloried, dismissed, railed upon or savaged, just remember the words of Oscar Wilde: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Be prepared. Always business. Never Personal.Award: for some awards, it maybe nominated in more than one category.Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Goodreads, BookArmyIf you're still in prepublication state, any reviewed will be from trade publications such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus and Library Journal.Fresh Air, Today ShowPublishers WeeklyNew York Times bestsellersChapter 14 The fine art of sellingWhat your publishers rely on are guesses based on preorders.Although Discount retailers such as Costo account for a large percentage of all book sale, they tends to concentrate on best sellers or references books; by comparison, only 5% of B&N's total sales are bestsellers.120,000 librariesAmazon Affiliate: establish account. This program will allow you to set up a direct on your site to your book page on Amazon. For each sale that comes through the link on your site, you make a small percentage.Amazon Sale rank: rates your book in comparison to other books they sell, it may or may not related to whole sale, even not related to local bookstores.===================About proposal:1. Getting titular: Title and subtitles2. Perfecting your pitch: what your book is aboutElevator pitch: short pitch, which is over by the time the elevators get the next doorLong-from pitch: under a minutes, usually on book flap (dust jacket, book jacket) or backs of paperback, that is flap and back cover copy.3. The Nonfiction proposal--No need finish manuscript, instead shorter is better and less is more--95% of the time, publishers are likely to shell out good money if they read a dazzling sample chapter or two to get the voice and point of view, more than that can harm.--ProposalTable of ContentsOverviewBioAudienceCompetitionSpecial marketing and promotional opportunitiesManuscript specificationOutlineSample Chapters (the other is the skin and bones, the sample chapters are heart and soul. 1-3 sample chapters, about 20-50 pages)type-style: Garamond and Times New Romans, margin 1 1/4'' on either side. Keep it short. Keep it tight. Double-spaced.--Cover design, AIGA, author hire a student design cover for $250--p101-102 where to find editor, professional readers (local bookstore), universities.===================About publishers:publishers marketplace : e-reports of deals.Publishers WeeklyAppendix IIAppendix III Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over by Jeff HermanPublishers Type:p138---Random House is owned by Bertelsman, which also bought among others, Crown, Knopf, Doubleday, Bantam and Dell. These are now called Division. And within each division, there may be a number of imprints. For examples, the imprints within the Crown Publishing Group include Clarkson Potter, Harmony Books and Three Rivers Press.---A small press ( indie publisher or independent press ) is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level. (U.S. $50 million). publish an average of fewer than 10 titles per year.Independent press: defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations. Including university presses, W. W. Norton & Company, Workman, Soft Skull Press. There two types of independent publishers: One is still looking to make direct contact with writers and readers, through word of mouth and online. The second has already established a reputation to such an extent that now the better agent send them potential projects as well.Small presses should not be confused with self-publishing presses (sometimes called "vanity presses"). Self-publishing or subsidy presses usually require payment by authors, or a minimum purchase of copies. By comparison, small presses make their profits by selling books to consumers, rather than selling services to authors or selling a small number of copies to the author's friends.literary 文学的literacy 识字；素养；有读写能力

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• Come up with a blockbuster title
• Craft an attention-getting pitch
• Create a selling proposal, find the right agent
• Understand a book contract and royalty statements
• Develop sales, marketing and publicity savvy
• Self-publish, if that’s what you choose

New information on marketing strategies:

• Connect with your community and build up a following online via social media
• Create a search-engine-friendly title
• Produce a video book trailer
• Make, sell and distribute an e-book (as well as information on ebook royalties)
• The latest on print-on-demand and other self-publishing technologies

The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders—agents, editors, publicists, social media experts, booksellers and more. And of course authors. You’ll hear from Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, Seth Godin, Susan Orlean, Dan Ariely and many many more.

You’ll also find:

• Inspirational publishing success stories
• Dozens of insider tips
• Sample proposals
• Sample query letters
• Contract guidelines
• A resource guide

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published is more vital than ever for anyone who wants to mine that great idea and turn it into a successfully published book.

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