Successful Self-Publishing: How to Self-Publish and Market Your Book
How to Self-Publish and Market Your BookBy Joanna Penn
Length3h 22m
About this audiobook
Want to self-publish your book but don't know where to start? Worried it's too complex or you don't have the right skills?
This updated and expanded Fourth edition of Successful Self-Publishing provides everything you need to successfully self-publish your book in ebook, print, and audio formats, plus proven marketing strategies to reach more readers.
Written by award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanna (J.F.) Penn, this practical guide shares the exact methods used to publish more than forty books and build a multi-six-figure author business.
In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover:
A quick-start roadmap for self-publishing your first book
Step-by-step instructions for publishing professional-quality ebooks, print books, and audiobooks
The sites and services to trust and how to avoid the scams
Marketing strategies that work for both fiction and non-fiction
Start your indie author journey today with confidence. Try Successful Self-Publishing!
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (2.9K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreSelf-Help, Education and Learning
Length3 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 25, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3I. Before You Self-Publish
41.1 What is your definition of success?
51.2 Your publishing options
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6II. How to Self-Publish
72.1 Which formats will you publish in and why?
82.2 Editing and book cover design
92.3 Sales description, categories, and keywords
102.4 How to format an ebook file
112.5 Exclusivity or going wide
122.6 How to self-publish an ebook
132.7 How to self-publish a print book
142.8 Audiobook options
152.9 How to self-publish an audiobook
162.10 Selling direct
172.11 How much does it cost to self-publish?
182.12 How do you get paid when you self-publish?
192.13 After self-publishing
20III. How to Market Your Book
213.1 Marketing principles
223.2 Different ways to market your book
23IV. Self-Publishing in an Age of Generative AI
244.1 The artisan author in an age of AI
254.2 Ways to use AI tools
26Your next steps
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