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The Fine Print of Self Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 45 Self-Publishing Companies Analyzed Ranked & Exposed
By Mark Levine
ISBN-10: 0980245575
ISBN-13: 978-0980245578
Mark Levin has a classic here with The Fine Print of Self Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 45 Self-Publishing Companies Analyzed Ranked & Exposed. I have to say that as a self published author I devoured this book, all 321 pages, in one single sitting. I found myself up at midnight, then 1:00 AM, then 2:35 in the morning going over the page after page of useful information. Man, I wish I would have had this book a few years ago!
First of all, Mark gives you reasons why to self publish and what to look for in your publishing partner. Then Mark gives ranks self publishing services into four categories: Outstanding, Pretty Good, Okay and Avoid. He groups the publishing and printing companies that he studied into these categories then tells us why he grouped the companies in their categories. But he doesn’t just give it to us in dialogue. We can see the numbers. Mark has taken the time to explore what a paperback of 200 pages with each of these services would cost you, what your book will cost and how much royalties you can expect for selling your book directly from the publisher versus selling on Amazon.com or similar online bookstore formats. And he makes it easy to understand.
Unfortunately, Mark Levine did not list all of the service providers out there. I have since seen I-Proclaim, Raider, BlueToad and Ireland’s Choice Publishing, which somehow didn’t make the book, but I would presume that Mark Levine will add these when he updates the next versions. But nonetheless, Mark does not fail in giving the reader and self publisher all the tools he will need to be able to judge one of these services for himself.
I have a couple of books that I will be printing in the near future but before I make a move, I am going to be re-consulting this magic tome when the time comes. I highly recommend anyone who is looking to self publish to grad a copy of Mark Levine’s book well in advance!
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