Publishing

General links and useful places, all about Publishing as a business. 

  • Web Link Publishers Marketplace

    A database of publishing information.

  • Web Link Publetariat

    A slightly radical extremely anti-traditional-publishing guide to global publishing.

  • Web Link Creative Minds Press: How to get started in publishing

    A booklist of publishing resources for the uninitiated

  • Web Link Writers and Editors: Self-Publishing and POD

    "Printing is not publishing!": The basics of self-publishing and links to ebook publishing resources.

  • Web Link MediaShift: How to Self-Publish Your Ebook

    Publishing consultant Carla King provides an overview of popular publishing resources, focusing on Smashwords, Amazon KDP, and BookBaby.

  • Web Link Writer's Guide to E-Publishing

    Tips and resources on e-publishing: "E-Publishing is here to stay. We're here to provide answers to all your E-Publishing questions."

  • Web Link Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish and Why You Should

    David Gaughran's blog, a source of self-publishing issues and news.

  • Web Link A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

    Joe Konrath’s blog re: the world of electronic self-publishing.

  • Web Link How to Register Your Copyright

    You can use the Copyright Office's online ECO system for registering your copyright online.  Only $35.00, and your ability to be recompensed for legal fees you spend to enforce your copyright is protected.  You can go here to the link below to find it.  Do you need an online step-by-step tutorial?  

    1.  Use the Copyright Office's online powerpoint tutorial to get going:  http://www.copyright.gov/eco/eco-tutorial.pdf, or,

    2.  You can use this step-by-step tutorial from Mediashift, PBS:  Click Here.  

  • Web Link Make A Killing on KIndle

    According to best-selling author Mike Alvear, "[t]here are only 12 steps to successful Kindle selling and I show you how to do each of them with step-by-step directions, including picture tutorials."  Mike points out that your carefully crafted, painstakingly created book can't be bought if it can't be found.  Mike's gotten every single one of his books on Page 1 of Amazon's search results, and in this book, he shows you how.

    This book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Booknook.biz!  Don't miss this one!

  • Web Link eBookery 101: The Handbook

    We've recently created a Handbook for use by our new customers.  You can download it below, where you see the red link that says "Download BooknookBiz Handbook.pdf."   Please note:  this is not a "how to make your own ebook" handbook. 

    The Handbook comes in PDF format, and is easy to download and use.  It's not a "how-to" guide so much as a guide to what ebooks are; what they look like; what they can and can't do, and what you can expect your book to look like, and how it will function.  The Handbook is not meant to be read, front-to-back, like a novel, but is intended as more of a reference book.  Each section (Roman Numerals) speaks to a different aspect of ebooks and self-publishing.  If you click the "Bookmarks" icon on your PDF reader, it will open and display a fully-interactive, tree-style Table of Contents on the left-hand side, which will give you ease of navigation, and is fully searchable.  You can download the Handbook from our server by clicking the filename, at the bottom of the article. 

    Please be patient when you download it--it's a 5.5MB file, with a lot of helpful images and screenshots.  Thanks!  We hope you find it useful, no matter what company you choose to do your conversion. 

Phone Call Alert! 

(Please read, thanks.) 

Old Timey Switchboard Operator Cartoon

 

Due to the COVID-19 onslaught, we currently cannot take incoming phone calls.  

And since nobody reads anything, I've simply removed the phone number from the site.  

A notification about phone calls:  due to the COVID-19 plague, we've significantly increased our incoming inquiries--nearly double our usual volume--and the number of incoming inquiries by phone has been literally overwhelming.  Although most writers will say that their call "will only take 15 minutes," the truth is, that after 10 years of doing this, most author inquiry calls take an hour.  45 minutes at best. I'm currently receiving 7-10 calls/day, and due to that, I've had to stop accepting incoming phone calls, which my voicemail will tell you. You can leave a message--I can't call you back without one--and if a call is needed, I will of course call you.  But we have very complete and extensive email replies, handouts and our website is very informative. Almost all the questions that I receive during a call are actually already answered on our site, or are, in fact, publishing questions, not questions about our services, what we do, what we offer, or the like.  I already handle between 90-130 emails/day, as it is. I can't handle that many emails and take 7-10 hours of calls each day. I can't. So, in order to be able to answer this huge email volume, to help the greatest number of people, with my time, I've had to stop accepting calls.  I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. I'm in the process of setting up a call-appointment function, for free 15-minute calls to answer questions from new prospective customers and longer paid sessions for folks who generally want consulting on "publishing," generally (and for prospective kids' book publishers, as a special category of paid consulting).  But that functionality isn't yet set up. I hope to get that working the 3rd week of July, sometime.  

Thank you for your understanding.