Self-Publishing Manual, Volume II: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book Employing the Latest Technologies and the Newest Techniques. Dan Poynter.

Self-Publishing Manual, Volume II: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book Employing the Latest Technologies and the Newest Techniques by Dan Poynter. 2009. 144p.

Book description

Book publishing is changing. The Self-Publishing Manual, Volume 2, the sequel to the best selling Self Publishing Manual describes how to use new techniques to write your book even faster, use new technology to publish it for less, and how to use social media for promotion.

Opinion

Self-publishing is an option for authors who we wish to produce books on our own, without the help of a publisher. Authors we can choose to self-publish our work in electronic or physical format and the type of self-publishing we choose depends largely on our needs and creative capabilities.

It is clear that technology has advanced a lot in the last decades, making self-publishing easier and cheaper, and for this reason, many professional and non-professional writers, who we want to write, we are inclined to self-publish our books and this way to avoid the long process that would mean publishing in a traditional publishing house and, of course, counting that someday we will be published. 

In addition, digital readers access new works through online libraries, bookstores that have online catalogs. These books are also available on smartphones, computers and other electronic devices such as tablets or e-readers. Electronic publishing makes it easy for readers to access new works without any hassle. 

In my case, I have written two books in Catalan and Spanish, Alèxia i l'androide Karl or Alexia y el androide Karl and L'illa solitària de l'Hikiko or La isla solitaria de Hikiko that I self-published and you can find in Amazon, and with the illustrations of all the covers have been made by the artist and genius Julen Laboria @eltejedordeluz. 

That's why I assure you that Poynter's book is full of ideas, which I will follow from now on, and also provides links, most of which are still active today.

For all these reasons I recommend this book to all self-published authors, but also to those who want to get started in self-publishing.