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Publishing Your Dream with Ivory Pen
- 2. A life time dream.... Result of hours of hard work… fruit of my passion… script for my book is ready!!
- 3. Looks like Book is going to be a sure shot success… I need to publish this book!
- 4. 3 months have passed by … no publisher has accepted my script!
- 5. I guess my script is too bad!... I am a failure!
- 6. Wait ZooZoo… you should know why your script was not accepted by major publishers
- 8. Publishers use a printing method called offset printing High Upfront cost
- 9. Offset Printing - High Upfront cost < + Cost of printing Cost of Cost of printing 2000 1000 printing books books 1000 books
- 10. Unit printing cost decreases with increase in number of books < < Cost per Cost per Cost per book when book when book when printing printing printing 3000 books 2000 books 1000 books
- 11. I should reduce my costs to make my business profitable! Publisher Do’s 1. Print lot of books at once to reduce cost 2. Stock all the books in ware house 3. Sell the books to retailers when ever needed 4. When lot of books are sold ..I can recover my cost and probably will make profit
- 12. But after printing huge amount of books if the books don’t sell – I will soon go bankrupt!!!! Publisher Don'ts 1. Do not accept scripts which do not have potential to sell in huge numbers and recover huge upfront cost 2. Take safe bets in script selection – try to avoid untested new authors 3. Reserve only few titles for new authors
- 13. A new author’s problem
- 14. Thousands of new authors are sending their scripts to the publishers. But only few titles are reserved for new authors.
- 15. New Authors have to differentiate themselves from the crowd to catch the eyes of the publishers…..
- 16. So probably my script isn’t all that bad… Then how could I publish my book??
- 17. ZooZoo you could self publish your book!!!
- 18. Amish Tripathi self published ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ before it was picked up by Westland. Ashwin Sanhi self published his first book ‘The Rozbal Line’ and it got noticed by Westland. His next book ‘Chankya’s chant’ was published by Westland. Even John Grisham had self published his ‘A time to kill’.
- 20. Self publishing is process where author publishes his own work instead of depending on a publisher!
- 21. Advent of new generation digital printers have made self publishing affordable! No Upfront costs!
- 22. Digital Printing - no Upfront cost = + Cost of printing Cost of Cost of printing 2000 1000 printing books books 1000 books
- 23. Unit printing cost remains the same with increase in number of books = = Cost per Cost per Cost per book when book when book when printing printing printing 3000 books 2000 books 1000 books
- 24. • Self publisher can print smaller quantities of his books. • Based on the readers response he can reprint the required copies when ever required • Author can also modify content based on the readers feedback and reprint the book with no additional cost
- 25. Unlike Traditional Publishing • Your script will never be rejected • You hold the rights for the books. • You get the whole profit made out of the book instead of the 10-20% royalty paid by the publishers • You also hold the digital and movie rights
- 26. By Self Publishing your book • You would attain fame as a published author • You can become an entrepreneur and earn money • You can test your writing skills and get feedback from diverse people • You have chance that your book would be noticed by major publisher and your next book could be published by them
- 27. Self publishing sounds great!!!... But I am just an author .. I don’t know anything about publishing!
- 28. ZooZoo Ivory Pen can help you!!!
- 30. Ivory Pen can help your transition from an author to a self publisher • Proof Reading • Editing • Typing • Formatting • Printing • ISBN • Cover design • Illustrations • Pricing advice • Distribution • Promotion • Logistics • Marketing workshop
- 31. Proof Reading Editing You may be a great author but still small If you are a new author and have doubts errors would evade your eyes. We help regarding you writing style or grammar you get your script perfect by eliminating , we could help you by getting your script any error through professional proof edited by a professional editor. reading services. Typing Formatting If you are an old school author and have We could help you format your script and an untyped script we can type the script make it look like a professionally and make it digital for you. designed book. Without a professional type set your book might look like a printed word document.
- 32. Printing ISBN Based on your requirements Ivory Pen If you would like to sell your books can offer you digital or offset printing through major physical or web store and binding. Have no doubt your book you would require an ISBN number for would look like a professionally your book. Ivory can help you get ISBN published book. for your book. Cover designs Illustrations A good cover attracts a reader to the If you like to have few illustrations for book. We can help you get an your book, we could help you get the professionally designed cover for you. illustrations done by a professional artist.
- 33. Pricing advise Promotions Pricing is an important aspect in We could help you promote your book by publishing. Setting price too high or too setting up a blog for you, printing low could result in a disaster. With years publicity materials for you, sending your of printing and publishing experience we book for reviews and also have press can help you set the right price for the release. book Distribution Logistics We can help you sell you books in web We could help you to store your books in stores like Flipkart, Infibeam etc. We can our warehouse and also help you in your also help you sell your books in book logistics to distribute your books. fairs.
- 34. Marketing Workshop This is an unique service offered only by Ivory Pen. Self publishing makes To be a successful Ivory pen offers 2 hour you an entrepreneur. entrepreneur you workshop which would You need more than should understand educate you on important your writing skills to be some basic marketing concepts like 4Ps, word of successful concepts. mouth, viral marketing. Printing your book and making it available it Flipkart isn’t just enough to make your book reach your audience. Marketing workshop would make you understand who your audience are , how to reach them, how to make them interested about your book and finally making them buy your book. If you are a first time publisher or if you didn’t have a very successful self publishing the previous time this is must have workshop for you.
- 35. Yahooo…I can publish my book now using Ivory pen services.
- 36. The legend says that Vyasa, the author of the world’s longest epic Mahabaratha, wanted someone to help him write the Mahabaratha. He approached Lord Ganesha and requested his help to write the epic. Ganesha broke his tusk and used it as a pen to write the world’s longest epic. Hence Lord Ganesha, writing with his Ivory pen, started the first self publishing service for budding authors. Now, is here to help budding authors publish their books.