Self-Publishing Handbook Ebook

Self-Publishing Handbook
The director had then duly assigned me the selfsame
designer and a sales representative from his
office, together with whom I would be working. I
already had their book design software, which I
had already been training myself to use. So, there I
was, me and my troubled life, sitting in a
boardroom, and pitching the vision which was
more like a pipedream at this stage, and being
taken seriously by the chief executive officer of
such a huge company. This was truly God’s
providence! Subsequent to this relationship, I had
produced a series of Coffee Table Heritage Books.
As the business had grown, so had the content
of my books, and the quality of authored materials.
Also, I had soon moved on to the printers who
were specialising in different types of formatting,
and who could also offer me scaled volumes
according to what my authors could afford,
ranging from 100, 1000, 500, to 10,000 or more
copies per print run. With this growth also came
the challenge of keeping the printing costs down,
without compromising on the quality of paper and
binding. I am not going to torture you by narrating
my bad experiences regarding the area of printing,
suffice to say I have learnt a lot from the many
costly mistakes I made along the way. And have
finally found a good printer with whom I have
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