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How to Get a Book Published - Will a POD Book Help You Get a Book Published? by Dee Power
24 million adults in the United States describe themselves as creative writers but less than 5% have ever been published anywhere. It has been estimated that at any one time there are between 5 to 6 million manuscripts looking for a publishing home. "How to get a book published?" is a question many writers are turning toward publish-on-demand (POD) houses like iUniverse, AuthorHouse and Publish America to get their books into readers' hands. About 45,000 titles will be released by these vanity/subsidy POD houses in 2007. Does a publish-on-demand book help a previously unpublished writer get closer to the brass ring of a commercial book publishing contract? Or does it bump them down a rung on their climb up the book publishing ladder?
Writers often comment that a publish-on-demand book will at least 'get their name out there' or that a vanity/subsidy book will show that they are capable of writing a 50,000 to 100,000 word manuscript. But do these types of books help a writer get published by a traditional commercial book publisher?
"That question was asked of nearly 60 successful literary agents in the Power and Hill survey of literary agents."
These agents' collective opinion is that a publish-on-demand book, also referred to as a vanity/subsidy book, seriously hurt an author's chance at being commercially published. Agents were asked to rate their response from 1 - significantly hurt, to 5 - significantly helped. The average rating was 2.
28% declared a POD title to be neutral (a rating of 3) and half of those specified that a POD title would only help if the sales reached a significant level, from 5,000 to 10,000 copies. Just a handful of publish-on-demand titles have reached that level of sales. The average number of copies sold for a POD title is around 100.
The book publishing industry has never been easy to break into and these same literary agents see the environment getting a bit more challenging in the next year or so for unpublished writers. Combine that with the significantly increased number of unsolicited submissions agents say they're receiving and writers need every boost they can get toward agency representation and the ultimate goal of commercial publication.
Unfortunately, contrary to what quite a few writers think, that boost isn't going to come from a publish-on-demand book."
There isn't a short cut to how to get a book published.
Discover How You Can Achieve Your Dream And Get Your Book Published. Sneak peek of Dee Power's new book, The Publishing Primer. [http://www.brianhillanddeepower.com/freerepo your free chapter. Find out how books get in bookstores. How bookstores select titles. How the bestseller lists work. What boosts a book to the top of the bestseller list? And frequently asked questions about publishing
About the Author
Discover How You Can Achieve Your Dream And Get Your Book Published. Sneak peek of Dee Power's new book, The Publishing Primer. Get your free chapter. (http://www.brianhillanddeepower.com/freereport1.html) Find out how books get in bookstores. How bookstores select titles. How the bestseller lists work. What boosts a book to the top of the bestseller list? And frequently asked questions about publishing
About The Authors
Brian Hill and Dee Power have written several nonfiction books including The Publishing Primer: A Blueprint for an Author's Success (http://www.brianhillanddeepower.com/get-your-book-published.html) and The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories From Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them. They are also the authors of the novel, Over Time
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