Thursday, May 22, 2008

What is Self-Publishing?

Self publishing simply means an author acts as his or her own publishing company to bring a book to market. Often, but not always, this means that the author wears all the hats: author, publisher, publicist, sales rep, distributor, and shipping clerk.

These can be extremely time-consuming tasks which is why many self publishing authors outsource some of these “jobs” to other organizations. They remain the legal owner of the book, but the tasks of selling and fulfilling orders, marketing and so forth are handled by others. This allows the author to focus on the task of writing books instead of tracking down shipments and dealing with collections.

Self publishing authors who publish with WWAOW do not have to worry about most of these activities because all aspects of the sales, printing, and fulfillment are handled by the WWAOW system. Authors simply write and market their work.
Learn more about self publishing at wwaow.com.

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