5 Questions That Can Help You Sell Your Book With Ease: Part 1

 Have you ever asked someone to help you with selling your book? Are you tired of saying “Help me! How can I sell my book?” Experts say that to sell a book, marketing has to be done precisely. Well, no doubt in this. However, if this isn’t helping you well, then it might be that loophole is somewhere else. Here are the 5 most important questions, which will help you sell your book with ease. Without much ado, let us quickly look at them.


1.    Have you offered your book in ebook format?

This is the first important question which you have to answer. If you look at the statistics of the previous 2 years, you will be amazed to see the results, which says, ebook did pretty well in comparison with the print books. You should have many ebooks for sale, if you want to see a good sales of your books online.

Well, there are people who call it, ‘tsunami of crap’ upon seeing the rising number of ebooks, but the truth and facts says that this is good in terms of getting higher sales as the e-book market is growing globally with getting new prospects for business.

2.    Is the book cover designed professionally?

If you know your business well, then you must be knowing that book buyers still buy the book with their eyes. If they are pleased with the cover and its content, then they easily get convinced with the book, and the rest of the convincing is no doubt done by the blurb and reviews on the book.

Well, make sure that you stay away from DIY cover for your book, instead go for professional book cover designing, as that would surely make you see rise in your book sales.

Yes, we promised for 5 questions in the title. These are the first two important ones. Rest 3 are discussed in the “5 Questions That Can Help You Sell Your Book With Ease: Part 2”

Want to Publish your Printed Book? Here are some ways

Nowadays, there is an increasing trend for on demand printing and publishing a book. People find out sources by which it is easier for them to publish and deliver books to the readers. If you have print a book for the first time and want to make it published, here are some ways for publishing:

•    The first way is to hire a fictional agent, who can encompass your document to the large publishing houses. By this, you will get an advance, pay royalties and further promote the book. When you opt for this process, then you are not required to edit or design or copyright, rather the main role of yours is when you contribute to its marketing strategies. This is one of the options that work best for the writers who are popular ones, as most of the first timer’s author’s documents get rejected.

•    The second point is to find out a self-determining publisher, or small imprint agencies. For this, all you need to do is to pay for production cost, which will include editing, designing and printing of the manuscript. With the help of this, the main role on the marketing as editing and designing part will be on their head.

•    The third point in publishing a printed one, is to self publish and carry out all the responsibilities. Under this, you will be required to produce and market your book and own the copyright. If you choose this option, all profits from the sales will be yours only. It is completely in your hands to determine that whether you want to print traditionally or on demand print services. Some of the processes may also apply for eBook publishing services or book electronically.
Important point to note down, if you choose self publishing, then you must be aware of the publishing process, selection of the right vendors, book production, distribution, marketing and working on the realistic time line.

5 Blunders by Self Publishers while Doing Self publishing

 Have self publishing services made you think ‘I should publish or print a book myself?” There are several authors & publishers, who are fascinated with self publishing and they are in fact trying their hands in self-publishing as well. However, there are certain author, who had to face criticism and failure in this task. Behind the failure, we have identified few mistakes, which we have mentioned in this blog. Let us have a look at them:

•    Be careful while quoting from other’s work

Different authors have different writing styles, out of which, one is quoting from famous saying or lyrics, to build connection or convey thoughts easily. If this style has fascinated you too, then be careful and first do enquire about the copyright laws & provisions before quoting the lines. In certain norms & conditions, in spite of mentioning the credits, quoting other’s text will subject you too be fined.

•    Do not misunderstand ISBN

ISBN gives unique identity to the books, which simplifies the selling & buying process. Although not majorly, but in few cases, it has been seen that ISBN of certain books which are not for sale now, or used to be in stores years ago, are used for new books. If you are also planning to re-use the ISBN in order to save money, then you might get into a mess. It would not only create confusion for you, but also for the sellers and buyers.

•    Make random selection of typefaces & fonts

When it comes to print book, then self publishers have to check the book from every aspect to ensure reader-friendly element. Therefore, the decisions regarding the typefaces, serifs, typography, ligatures, and design must be taken very carefully. These are although minute elements, but these can become a reason for your success or failure.

•    Decisions regarding image resolutions

 Certain aspects like selecting image resolution require technical understanding. You cannot just decide about the picture quality by looking at the resolution on the computer screen. The images on computer generally have graphics resolution of 72 dpi in RGB colorscape; whereas, in printing book, ideal resolution should be 300 dpi in CMYK colorscape.

•     Making memoirs complex

Memoirs should be straightforward instead of being complicated. Memoirs written in third person creates confusion in understanding the viewpoint by the readers. Therefore, you should be careful in narration of memoir so that they easily understand the important information. 

5 Tips to Remember While Self publishing Online

When self-publishing online, there are few tips which must be kept into consideration, to use the bunch of benefits. Follow 5 crucial tips that would help save the money, time, and other resources involved in book publishing as well as its distribution.

•    Influencing cover design
The cover design of the book is very important aspect in calling attention of the readers. By paying proper attention & resources in selecting the cover, one can win half the battle. So, next time when you set yourself to publish book online, you must make sure that you are prepared with the creative ideas for the cover design.

•    Utilizing the added services-print on demand
Several services are provided to the writers, who wish to experiment with self-publishing. One of such service is print on demand. If you are not initially sure about the selling ratio of the book, then do not push yourself into loses by ordering copies in bulk. Get on-demand printing facility where you can even print one book without an additional cost.

•    Future of e-books:
e-books have a great future ahead and this is a good time to mark hold the footstep in the booming zone. There are lots of readers who prefer to read books online, so to cater this segment getting the book in the e-book format is a sensible decision. It does not need huge amount (no need for printing & distribution) rather it assures high profit.

•    Set price with a reasonable profit margin
If not for the authors getting services of book publishing companies, at least the self publishers can manage with lesser price of the books. Yes, it is not acceptable to all, but still it is a wiser decision to keep lower margin but this would help in competing with other titles on the similar subject.

•    Selecting the book title
The title of the book demands your sincere focus. Specially, for e-books, titles that are part of keyword search have more chance to reach larger section of readers. The authors of ‘non-fiction’ theme can easily and should try their best to implement this tip when selecting the titles for their book.


So, next time when you contact the self publishing companies for publishing the books, remember these tips to get the benefits.