Posts Tagged ‘ preserve quality literature ’

How Do We Survive Book Snobs?

November 29, 2011
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How Do We Survive Book Snobs?

by John Rakestraw I saw this headline on the internet today… How do we preserve quality literature with freedom of self publishing? Do these people really believe that Patterson, King, Hoag and the like are literature worth preserving? Let face it people, none of them are Shakespeare, (though I will admit he was the...

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The Publishing Process

This is the process a book must go through before you find it on the shelves at your local bookstore:

Develop and write manuscript

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Design

Typeset

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Typeset corrections

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Make ready for press

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Print

Bind

Ship

Distribute books

Are you sure you can and want to do all that editing yourself?