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Step 1: Education Step 2: Preparation Step 3: Book Printing Step 4: Distribution & Marketing 
Self Publishing Preparation
Step two of the self-publishing process
The manuscript preparation stage of the self-publishing process includes everything you need to do to your book prior to going to the book printer. This includes having your manuscript analyzed as to its commercial potential. This editorial analysis will help you determine to what extent you should proceed in your self-publishing venture. We will never say “don’t self-publish” but in some cases we may ask that you be extra cautious and start slow, in your self-publishing due to possible limited market appeal of your book. The goal is for you to be happy with the final outcome in your self-publishing debut. The object is not to fill your closet with books or your head full of false ideas and hopes. Writing is a love and publishing is a business. You can print and sell 100 books at a time and be a success or sell 10,000 books and be a failure. It’s all in the preparation.
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Editorial Analysis |
| This is where it all starts. It is at this stage that you will determine whether you should print a limited run of books for friends and family or establish a small press publishing company by purchasing a block of ISBN’s. | |
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Obtain Single ISBN |
| This is what makes you a book publisher. It is the only way you can truly be a self-publisher. SelfPublishing.com is an authorized agent of the U.S. ISBN Agency for the sale of single ISBNs. | |
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Obtain Muliple ISBNs |
| This is what makes you a book publisher. It is the only way you can truly be a self-publisher. Nobody else can give, assign or sell you ISBN’s, and have them be yours, except RR Bowker, the U.S. ISBN agency | |
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Book Editing |
| Your editorial analysis will recommend a certain level of copy or line editing needed to bring your manuscript up to commercial standards. Don’t confuse this with having your 8th grade English teacher take a look at your manuscript. | |
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Book Layout |
| This is where the body of your book takes shape and starts “looking” like a book. Do- it- yourself layout is not recommended other than for very basic manuscripts or books with limited commercial appeal. | |
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Do-it-Yourself Layout |
| Available for titles of limited commercial appeal or for the preparation of reader proof or bound galleys. This is not to be confused with professional book layout. | |
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Bound Galleys |
| Limited run book proofs, often unedited, generally used to get book reviews prior to the publication date of your book. Bound galleys do not have a laminated full color cover. | |
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Proof Reading |
| Not to be confused with editing, proof reading is done after the layout person formats your book into pages. The proofreader looks particularly at word breaks and sentence layout. Some minor corrections missed in the first line edit may also be made. | |
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Cover Design |
| Yes, you can judge a book by its cover. This is not the time to be counting pennies if you want your book to have a chance of succeeding in the commercial market. Professionally designed, reasonably priced. | |