Don't Get Suckered Into a Bad Book Deal - Affiliate Magazine

I?ve heard from a number of Affiliate Summit East 2013 speakers that they have been solicited by a company offering up a ?potential book deal.?

As part of the pitch, the company stated?

In order to take advantage of this unique window of opportunity, we?d have you work with a 5-person writing team at [company name] to get the book written. We would only need three to five days of your time to bring you out to our writer?s retreat in [exciting location] to help expedite the process of getting the book written and published in time to be included in our annual catalogue.

It turns out the cost for this ?opportunity? is $35,000. Yes, the cost! Unlike a ?traditional? publisher that would pay an advance, rather than taking one.

In return, the author gets 25% commission on the book and 1,000 copies for this vanity project.

Just to give you some perspective, if you have some content you?d like to publish, you can self-publish digitally with Amazon?s Kindle Direct Publishing, and a physical book at places like CreateSpace and Lulu for free.

And it?s pretty easy. I am giving a presentation at the Affiliate Summit meetup in Austin on June 24, 2013 on turning content into a Kindle book.

This is based on my experience publishing my book, Extra Money Answer on Kindle, earlier this year.

I also just published my book through CreateSpace, and it was a quick and easy process ? I did the same on Lulu to compare the processes and final product. Both were very nice quality and intuitive.

You can buy copies for yourself at cut rates from self-publishing companies and they get better with more volume. I just purchased 120 copies of my 143 page 8 1/2 x 11 book for $6.26 each through Lulu.

Of course, you?d be doing your own marketing when self-publishing, but that?s a reality for pretty much any first time (or many times) author with a big publishing house. And there was no mention of that $35,000 including any marketing.

Speaking of marketing, any folks looking to get into publishing their own books should also check out the Author Marketing Club.

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