LLBR has moved – to read this great article, go to our new site – Success Stories
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LLBR has moved – to read this great article, go to our new site – Success Stories
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: lulu, Lulu book, lulu book reviews, lulu.com, POD, print on demand, self publishing, success
First things first.
Authors, do not sell your electronic rights to the paper publisher. Retain them for yourself. If the publisher argues with you, get another publisher.
I have written four best-selling books on New Astrology© and The Chinese Zodiac. I own all my electronic rights and you should too.
I sell all my books as digital downloads on my web site. I even sell chapters of my books as downloads. I have been doing it for years with great success.
Secondly, if a publisher gets lazy or isn’t doing your book justice, ask for your rights back. I did it a couple of years ago and the publisher (Harper) finally let go. The book needed updating. I was the only one who could do it. They didn’t want to pay me. Now I am publishing that book digitally and selling it on my site as well as for Kindle and on a site I own on Facebook.
Defend yourselves. And by the way, I checked out Scribd. A mess. Their terms are appalling. They win. You lose. Typical.
Good luck, Suzanne White
suzanwhite@aol.com
Hmmm….Hi Suzanne- Thanks for your comment. Did you mispost it though? Our post is about success stories and never mentions selling electronic rights, Scribd, or lazy publishers. But thanks for the tip.
-Shannon
LLBR
Misposted or not, it was very interesting! I am new to the publishing game,and every little bit of information like this helps!
I did not mispost my success story. I am talking to authors about digital rights – a very hot subject btw for us authors who tend to give away our rights – our shirts! – for the privilege of being published by a book publisher. All publishers want all rights. I advise authors to keep heir electronic rights and, in fact, all rights extraneous to publishing their book in paper (T-shirt and bumper sticker and film and Tv etc rights) Thanks for asking. I was simply saying that I kept my electronic rights and now I sell more e- books than my publisher sells paper books. I count that as a victory over publishers who take 90% and leave us 10%.