Welcome
to PPC Books - Self Publishing Services
"Where Personal Service Is Number One"
250 176th Avenue East
Redington Shores FL 33708-1221
(727) 399-0342 Fax(727) 399-0442
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An interest-free, 6-month extended-payment plan is also available. |
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Editorial
(Excerpted
from Book Biz,
Vol.
XIII, No. 4)
OK, You’ve
Finished Your Book — Now What?
In today’s publishing
climate, here are your options:
Want to know the difference? Read on…
Mainstream
Publishing Route
Alas,
unless you’re a celebrity with an exposé or you are incredibly well
connected, mainstream publishing is virtually out -- at least until you have a
track record.
SELF-PUBLISHING
Self-Publishing
is absolutely the best way to get that track record -- the one that’s followed
by the big publishers, who then offer contracts for books that show even
geographical promise (e.g.: If you can attract serious attention with sales and
publicity in your local area, the field reps will be watching.)* But to truly Self-Publish
-- and retain the critical rights to your book (otherwise you can’t sell it,
obviously), use a service like PPC Books, where everything you need to produce your book is available (click
here to see a sample) -- including the ISBN in your name -- but
you only pay for what you use…and own your book outright. That’s a must!
*(Think that doesn’t happen? Think again: Jamise L.
Dames managed to sell 30,000 copies of her Self-Published Mamma’s
Baby, Daddy’s Maybe, found an agent at BookExpo in L.A., and Atria
Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, recently won an auction
for her book with a six-figure bid!)
Internet Vanity
If
you publish through a Net Vanity outfit, forget any future: They own your book,
because they invariably register the ISBN in their name. Yes, you’ll be
assured that you own the Copyright, but so do 99.9% of all authors, including
those with Random House and the like -- but they have little or no
control over the production or marketing of the book, because that ISBN directs
the flow of revenue. It may sound like a Random House-like
publisher-author relationship, but with a Net Vanity “publisher” that’s
absolutely not the case: the former is a storied company investing in your book;
the latter is an online wannabe, with little or no investment or promotion,
looking to enrich its own stockholders with sales of your book -- primarily
to you! That’s right, their well-documented biggest margin of profit is on
sales to the author at inflated prices; that’s the very hook they have used to
attract investors.
Print-On-Demand (P-O-D)
The only remaining option is really so limited
that it hardly applies. If you want just a few copies for friends and relatives,
P-O-D will serve that purpose -- but expect to receive only what you submit, as
you’ll get no edit, design or formatting help there. Obviously, if you’re
looking to market your book and sell in any volume, this is a prohibitive route
-- because of the cost-per-book, too. That forces you to price the book too high
to effectively sell it, so why bother?
For over 30
years we've produced quality books, newsletters and magazines for authors, as
well as corporate clients. We help authors do the most viable thing in today's
virtually closed mainstream book publishing market: Self Publish. By
providing professional, sensitive editing, formatting, design & typesetting,
proofreading, and quality printing & binding - complete book production
services - we let you concentrate on the
most important element - writing your book. (Please see our What
We Provide feature section for further details; in the case of camera -
ready books, you simply choose whichever of these services you need.)
This attractive, economically Self Published
book - indistinguishable from bestsellers
produced by commercial book publishers - is then
shipped to you (at no additional cost), ready for bookstore distribution
or private use.
But that's
possible only because this is not Internet vanity
publishing - where the book's ISBN is registered in the vanity publishing
company name
so that you have virtually no control over the publishing process or, even more
importantly, the revenue from sales of your book. Indeed, with that method you
can't even market your own book. Please see our Why NOT
Choose Internet Vanity Publishing? feature section (including
why not Print-On-Demand).
Since marketing
is vital to you, we not only make it economically practical for you to sell
books and make a decent profit (because that critical ISBN is registered in your
name), we offer assistance in that area too, including valuable distribution
contacts - plus immediate, direct sales in our Internet bookshop devoted to Small
and Self Publishers' books (where you make a normal 60% on
each sale). As you may realize, mainstream publishers are not only finding
bestsellers in Self Published books (like The Celestine
Prophecy and Rich Dad, Poor Dad), but actually using Small and Self
Publishers
as testing grounds for niche product: You establish a market for your book, then
they'll offer a contract. A professionally - produced book, then, is a potentially
hot commodity.
Don't let that
dream die! Complete and submit the Quick Quote form and see how
easily that dream might become a reality! Most quotes will be e-mailed to you
within 48 hours, and a copy of our Free Guidelines to Self
Publishing (also known as Desktop Publishing), FAQ sheet and Book Biz newsletter will be snail-mailed to you with
a quote confirmation and agreement for you to execute when you're ready to start
your book's production. Individual attention is our specialty, so we do look
forward to working closely with you on your book. And if you have any questions
about completing this form, please don't hesitate to call (727) 399-0342 for
assistance during business hours (Mon-Fri 9-5 EST).
250
176th Avenue East
Redington Shores FL 33708-1221
(727) 399-0342 Fax(727) 399-0442
E-mail Us
We accept all Major Credit Cards Checks, Money Orders
An interest-free, 6-month extended-payment plan is also available. |

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