Penny One Publishing

What does it take to get your book published? September 1, 2009

In today’s world of e-books, e-mail and things of like-nature, there are too many good books going unpublished. However, few people outside of the book industry are fully aware of the amount work that goes into creating a finished book. If you don’t have experience in this area you are probably going to need to enlist the expertise of a good many professionals, or be willing to undertake the learning curve and the necessary time to adequately prepare yourself for the task at hand. You will need to learn about book design — interior and exterior — editing, proof-reading, securing printer’s quotes, obtaining ISBN numbers, how to obtain an EAN and bar code, and why it is required, and how to distribute your books once they come back from the printer.

But before any of that can happen, you must make a few decisions about some very basic things, such as the look of the book, the physical size, the type of paper you envision the book being printed on, the number of colours the cover will have (and what your budget will allow). Every little thing takes money off of your bottom line.