I’m a great writer so how do I?
Posted Sunday, June 6, 2010 by admin
write an ebook and get it sold online?
Firstly, how do I protect the title of the book? Where do I reserve that?
Secondly, how do I find people (publisher perhaps) to market and sell for me?
Thirdly, how do I do these things while I’m in St Vincent (Caribbean). I’m talking with respect to laws etc…
Please help.
P.S. Oh by the way, I can PROVE to you that I’m a great writer…I wrote my FIRST article and submitted it to ezine and gained INSTANT “Expert Writer” Status…I was also showing up in POSITION NUMBER 1 on Google within the last 5 or so weeks…here’s that article. It’s content has NOTHING to do with the book I’m writing right now…Enjoy
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sponsor-New-Distributors&id=776963
The article was taken from a private blog I wrote…I KNOW better than to create published material with this sort of Grammar…COME ON.
Jherek you’re humourous. Great entertaining response. I won’t dignify it with a delete…let others have a laugh.
You worked it all very well. Congratulations.
Writing and selling an ebook is just like writing and selling for the print market. You write the best book you can, then identify epublishers and submit your work to them, following their guidelines.
You can’t protect the title of the book. Titles are not protected by copyright. You could call it “A Tale of Two Cities” or “The Kite Runner” and the authors or estates of authors with the same title couldn’t do a thing about it.
Second, you identify publishers by looking at the sources for ebooks. Where can you buy ebooks in the same genre as the book you wrote? That’s where you’d attempt to sell it. Be warned that epubs don’t do a lot of marketing.
Your physical location doesn’t matter. The laws in effect would be those at the location of the e-publisher. You can handle the entire transaction in cyberspace.
FWIW, I’m seeing some basic grammar errors in the article you linked. While epublishing is less competitive than print, you’d still need to turn in a manuscript that’s pretty much error-free to be considered.
Well, if an e-zine website says you’re “teh Expert Writer,” then it must be true. Bwahahahahaha! Have you taken a look at how many “Expert Writers” are on there? You do realize that if you can write as coherent as a monkey, that you become and “Expert” on that site? Jesus.
Your article is filled with grammatical errors. The style is horrible; especially your overuse of ellipses, which is often a sign of lack of understanding of more appropriate punctuation.
Get published, become a best-selling author, and have your book withstand the test of time alongside the classics; then come back to Yahoo! Answers and boast about yourself.
–Oh, wait, you don’t have a clue about actually being published. Well, that might prove to be a bit of an obstacle.
Hoooo… LMAO!
If you are SERIOUS about getting published…
1. You can’t “protect” the name of your book. Just don’t tell anyone else? There are many books by the same name. Now, something like “Harry Potter,” which is trademarked, is, in this way, “protected,” but if your book’s name is “How to Get Laid,” then, sorry, you’re screwed (no pun).
2. Don’t bother trying to find a publisher. Get an AGENT. An agent has experience in publishing and represents you.
However, there is an alternative: e-books are perfect for self-publishing. Basically, you write your book, maybe hire someone to edit and place together in PDF form for you, if you’re not able to do so yourself, set up a website, advertize like crazy, and sell from your site. :Lulu.com is another alternative. Otherwise, search google for e-book publishers.
3. What…? What laws would you be concerned about…?
LMAO! I completely agree with Jherek.