Self-Publish The Easy Way: How to Work with the Professionals You Need

SELF-PUBLISH for fun, for profit, to promote your business, to enhance your credentials, to spread your ideas, to share your creativity. This book is the concise guide to publishing for authors and businesses who want to self-publish without doing the work themselves. In this book, Michael Rohani explains how to navigate each stage of the publishing process to ensure you get the quality necessary to compete with the best publishers -- the quality that gets reviewers to write positive reviews, bookstores to stock the book, and most of all interested readers to buy the book.44+ valuable tips, 16 Quick Guides, 9 essential checklists, and numerous design examples. You'll learn * how to find the right professionals * how to ensure quality results * how to cut costs without sacrificing quality * which publication technologies to use and when * contract and license clauses you need to know * and much more.

Michael Rohani got an early start in advertising design in Dallas, Texas, and book design and publishing in Oxford, England, before co-founding RD Studio and DesignForBooks.com. RD Studio specializes in creative services including book design, book prepress production, and branding. His clients include industry-leading ad agencies and publishers such as Barrons, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, DDB Needham Worldwide, Glencoe, Guthy-Renker, McGraw-Hill, and many more. Michael is also author of Advanced Book Design and the forthcoming Book Marketing Essentials.