What do I have to do to get a book published?: The Essential Guide to Self-publish in the UK Today - Softcover

Anthony, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905203586 ISBN 13: 9781905203581

Verlag: Pen Press Publishers, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

The publishing industry has been teetering on the edge of change for the last 10 years - since the abolition of the NBA, the arrival of Amazon and mass-market sales by supermarkets. But despite external changes, the internal functioning of a publishing house looks the same...in fact, the same as it did a hundred years ago. When you peer inside the functioning of a publishing house, you will discover the dusty remnants of Victorian practices. Whilst it is easier than ever before to actually produce a book, it is just as difficult to get any kind of acceptance based on merit. During the 1990's, the photographic world suddenly realised that digital technology and image manipulation seriously threatened the management of copyright over images. It was a case of either change or die out. Image libraries got their act together and created online libraries where sale of copyrighted material is made easy. Today, photographers and artists earn more out of their image library material than they EVER did before. In the last five years, the music industry nearly collapsed under the demands and pressures from the public for the mega-giant music businesses to loosen their strangle-hold on the music business. They resisted and Napster fought bravely on, facing court cases and closure of their business but they ultimately changed the way the music industry works. And now, for the first time ever you will find new little indie bands at number 65 in the charts, sitting alongside Franz Ferdinand. A meritocracy now exists in music, rather than it being controlled on who spent the biggest promotional budget and who's pulling whose strings. The publishing industry has been fiercely resisting the changes that emerging technologies bring. Certainly, these changes bring new headaches and problems to solve - digital rights management, ease of using copyrighted material without permissions; not to mention the flood of new titles hitting the market. How does the quality material raise its head above the mass of material? These are definitely complex problems, but the drumbeat of advancing change is getting louder and louder - time marches on and waits for no man. The purpose of this book is to help the self-publishing author to successfully self-publish his book. It does this by advising on the essential tasks that have to be undertaken, it lifts the veil of some of the secrecy and myths that exist and it points you in the direction of services and organisations that can help and provide more indepth information that I have covered here. "What do I have to do to get published round here" seeks to present an honest and balanced view of the publishing industry. The main aim is to help people achieve as professional a finished product as possible that can compete effectively in the market. The one thing this book does not set out to do is to trot out the same tired old beliefs and accusations; nor hold up 'she who must not be named' as the perpetual example of every publishing slush pile faux pas and rags to riches story.

Biografía del autor:

Jo Anthony comes from a background of marketing, and came sideways into publishing by way of self-publishing her first book "Career, kids and breast cancer". Not content with expounding her views on surviving breast cancer, she is now sharing her experience on surviving the publishing industry.

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• Verlag: Pen Press Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1905203586
• ISBN 13: 9781905203581
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325