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    Choose the Best Self-Publishing Services: ALLi's Guide to Assembling Your Tools and Your Team

    By Alliance of Independent Authors, John Doppler and Orna A. Ross

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    Authors: Want to know how to assemble the perfect self-publishing team for you, which services are reputable and which to avoid? This guide has the answers.


    Choose the Best Self-Publishing Services is a comprehensive guide to hiring services across the seven stages of the publishing process: editorial, design, production, distribution, marketing, promotion and rights licensing.


    Drawing on the experience of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)’s watchdog desk, it sources industry data from a thousands-strong community of professional authors working every day on the publishing front line.


    The book assesses companies that sell publishing tools and services against a code of standards for ethics and excellence. It takes an individualist and creative approach, encouraging you to think critically and choose the best self-publishing partners for your business, covering everyone from large players like Amazon KDP and Apple Books to your local freelance editors and designers.


    In easy-to-understand chunks, you will learn:


    • What collaborators you need to produce high-quality books
    • When and what to outsource, and how much it should cost
    • Processes to assess any tool or service before you pay
    • The criteria you need to assess any service for yourself
    • The steps you can take to recover if you’ve fallen for a scam


    The principles and practices outlined in this book work across all genres—fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—and will empower you to build a strong publishing team, produce better books, and sell more copies around the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFont Publications
    Release dateJun 2, 2020
    ISBN9781909888920
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