Friday, October 11, 2024
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Common misconceptions about self-publishing

Marketing and publishing a book on your own are already a tedious task to do. Self-publishing is not for those that are looking for free agents and free passes to market their books. Self-publishing encompasses the same steps a traditional publisher does. Seeing false advertisements saying that self-publishing is free will be a big lie.

Publishing a book via digital media can be done easily but you need to make sure that you are just not putting a copy of your book there and letting it still. Digital Media needs a push. Yes, it’s an advantage that you can put up an advertisement on Amazon or other websites. However, it does not guarantee that there are real audiences looking at it. A combination of offline and online marketing strategy would help you show the beauty of your book.

Whether you like it or not, self-publishing is tied up with different methods of marketing. These methods are not free, of course. You can take a more difficult road, though. Learn the basics of online marketing from social media, to SEO, to website traffic and many more. Plus, you need to buy ads for these things to happen. And then hire your own agent to help you out with your book offline. However, is that even a practical way to do things? Mind you, there is no such thing as free. I think it is more comfortable to look for a reliable self-publishing company that can do these things.

You can get an expert with online marketing plus a publicist with Author Reputation Press. Moreover, the company offers you a very comfortable payment scheme. Author Reputation Press empathizes with authors that really needs help. The company’s core value is to help and to let the authors know what is happening. There is no such thing as free self-publishing; however, there is a thing called wise spending.

Jay Hogarth

Jay Hogarth is ARPress' resident content manager, responsible for all public-facing information posted on this blog and on the main site.

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