Comments on: Insider tips on how to successfully turn your blog or idea into a book http://www.dystel.com/2012/02/insider-tips-on-how-to-successfully-turn-your-blog-or-idea-into-a-book/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:16:29 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Stacey http://www.dystel.com/2012/02/insider-tips-on-how-to-successfully-turn-your-blog-or-idea-into-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-27771 Stacey Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:13:30 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7188#comment-27771 Thanks for the comments. It's a complicated discussion in a changing landscape. To answer your question about why not just self-publish if you have a following? It depends on what your goals are for the publication. Publishers offer a myriad of services from editorial guidance, cover design, sales and marketing departments, and a wide distribution network to get books out to the consumer. You could probably hire out a number of these services to some level of success, but ultimately, there's no way a self-published author could ever have the level of distribution a traditional publisher does. I've had many self-published authors comes to me over the years to ask if I can help them find a traditional publisher for wider distribution and/or because they are tired of doing it themselves. Thanks for the comments. It’s a complicated discussion in a changing landscape. To answer your question about why not just self-publish if you have a following? It depends on what your goals are for the publication. Publishers offer a myriad of services from editorial guidance, cover design, sales and marketing departments, and a wide distribution network to get books out to the consumer. You could probably hire out a number of these services to some level of success, but ultimately, there’s no way a self-published author could ever have the level of distribution a traditional publisher does.

I’ve had many self-published authors comes to me over the years to ask if I can help them find a traditional publisher for wider distribution and/or because they are tired of doing it themselves.

]]> By: ryan field http://www.dystel.com/2012/02/insider-tips-on-how-to-successfully-turn-your-blog-or-idea-into-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-27741 ryan field Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:32:53 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7188#comment-27741 One reason why blogs to books might haved slowed down is that I've never seen one that went from blog to book with a strong follow up book. I also think other social media has replaced the popularity of blogging and it might not be as relevant as it once was. And, though there are blogs with large readerships, most never hit the mainstream. I even read a piece about a blogger who was sued for defamation and lost because the judge ruled a blogger is not considered a journalist. One reason why blogs to books might haved slowed down is that I’ve never seen one that went from blog to book with a strong follow up book. I also think other social media has replaced the popularity of blogging and it might not be as relevant as it once was. And, though there are blogs with large readerships, most never hit the mainstream. I even read a piece about a blogger who was sued for defamation and lost because the judge ruled a blogger is not considered a journalist.

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday 02-02-2012 « The Author Chronicles http://www.dystel.com/2012/02/insider-tips-on-how-to-successfully-turn-your-blog-or-idea-into-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-27735 Top Picks Thursday 02-02-2012 « The Author Chronicles Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:04:51 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7188#comment-27735 [...] merits of going with a small press instead of the Big Six; Dystel & Goderich takes a look at going from popular blog to book; and Ginger Knowlton, VP of Curtis Brown, shares the current market for your [...] [...] merits of going with a small press instead of the Big Six; Dystel & Goderich takes a look at going from popular blog to book; and Ginger Knowlton, VP of Curtis Brown, shares the current market for your [...]

]]> By: jseliger http://www.dystel.com/2012/02/insider-tips-on-how-to-successfully-turn-your-blog-or-idea-into-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-27730 jseliger Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:13 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7188#comment-27730 If you already have a successful blog with a reasonably large audience and the material for a book, why use a conventional publisher? Why not simply do what <a href="http://sivers.org/a" rel="nofollow">Derek Sivers</a> and others have done and self-publish? If you already have a successful blog with a reasonably large audience and the material for a book, why use a conventional publisher? Why not simply do what Derek Sivers and others have done and self-publish?

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