I am looking into didderent ways of publishing a book, and I sencerely hope that I will come across a published author by means of this post for some first hand experience advice.

Here are some of the possible routes!

Traditional Publishing

• Get work accepted by a literary agent (big publishers only take submissions from literary agents.)
• The agent will take care of selling your manuscript to big publisher.
• You get paid an upfront advance for your work.
• The publisher will invest in editorial, copyediting, and design work.
• They'll also invest in sales and marketing.
• It becomes the publisher's job to get the fullest possible distribution for your physical product.
• And of course, any big publisher will also distribute your book through digital platforms such as Amazon etc

Publishing Digetally

• Anyone can do it.
• Amazon charges nothing for you to upload your work and it can sell it worldwide
• No advance payment
• Your work will not appear in bookshops
• You need to carry costs of editorial and copyediting work.
• Sales of book is not assured
• You have access to a worldwide audience mostly for free.

Old-Fashioned Self-Publishing

These days, old-fashioned self-publishing has a lower profile than it used to (although Virginia Woolf did OK with it, once upon a time). If you want to publish independently in the hope of convincing regular publishers to take you on, then you want to publish digitally - it doesn't really matter if you have hard copies or not.

Hmmmmm, how to go about this...
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