How to Publish Your Book : A Beginners Guide for Print, Digital and E-Books

How to Publish Your Book, A Beginner’s Guide for Print, Digital and e-Books is the newest book from graphic designer and author J. Bruce Jones, the self-publishing author of over 20 books. In this book Bruce takes you through an introduction and overview to self-publishing. The services, the different kinds of books you can create, the where, why and how. The power is in our hands and we can now publish, distribute and sell our writing around the world for almost no money or resistance. It is an amazing moment in time, and we can take advantage of it. This book shows you how.

How to Publish Your Book covers why you should self-publish, how your can make money from publishing your own books, and where you should publish. How to Publish Your Book talks about using the latest print-on-demand services for producing paperback, hard cover, photo and audio books. After discussing where to publish we turn to where to sell your book, the types of books you can make and then how you do it. Bruce also talks about the Kindle Comic Creator the new free application from Amazon that lets you publish graphic novels, comic books and children books super easy and very fast. After publishing and selling comes marketing and we have an overview of what to do before your start writing to build your platform and what to do after the book is out.

One of Bruce’s favorite topics is the re-purposing of your content. Write it once and use it over and over in many different ways. We learn about some of the other product creation sites that you can use and how to extend your book.

In all of Bruce’s books there is an extensive resource list of sites and services that you can use in creating your book. The list includes Layout and Design sites; including resources for; Clip Art, Color Palette Generators, Commercial Stock Photo Sites, Fonts, Online Photo Editing, and Public Domain Photo Sites. In the publishing resource we have Book Publishing, e-Book and Print-on-Demand Sites, e-Book Aggregators, and iPad publishing. Re-purposing Your Content includes; Blog Platforms, E-mail hosting, Google Resources, Video and Video Marketing, Photo Sharing, Single Subject Blog Sites and Social Media. The last section of the resources is about re-purposing your content, this section includes; Audio Recording Software, Screen Capture Software, Gift and Apparel Producers, Personal Broadcasting, Transcription Software, Video Distribution and Sharing, Web Based Screen Capture Software and Outsourcing.

Included in How to Publish Your Book:
• What is a Book?
• Why Should I Self-Publish?
• Can I Make Money From Self-Publishing?
• Where Should I Publish My Book?
• Where Do I Sell My Book?
• Types of Books You Can Create
• How Do I Publish My Book?
• When and How Do I Market My Book?
• What Do I Do After I Have Published My Book?
• Publishing Resources: Layout/Design
• Publishing Resources: Publishing
• Publishing Resources: Marketing and Building Your Platform
• Publishing Resources: Re-purpose Your Content

J. Bruce Jones is a Massachusetts-based business graphic designer, software developer, musician and independent video producer. Bruce is the author of more that 20 books. He writes on all kinds of topics that interest him: business books on social media; and publishing, growing your business and increasing your visibility on YouTube; books on playing and writing music; geography textbooks for learning and coloring books for fun.

Bruce is also the developer of the World of Maps editable clip art map collection for PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. These maps are used for business presentations, illustrations, graphic design, and web sites. They are distributed through various web sites including; mapsfordesign.com and bjdesign.com. He is also the developer of Antique and Historical Maps, a collection of royalty free, antique digital maps from the 1500s to the 1900s, used for graphic design, illustration, web sites and education.

Bruce is active in both producing and creating original programming for local public access television and the web.