I have a friend who is a university teacher. She told me that if I had published my thesis when I was a student, it would be easy to apply for studying abroad. This is the news that I didn't know until I published two books. I feel that I missed 100 million. ?
I posted Meng's Manual Layout in 5 Minutes on the Internet, and someone left me a message asking: How to publish a book? I told him: Generally, publishers come to you on their own initiative. He went on to ask: when you first published your book, how could you let the publishing house publish it when no one knew you and the publishing house? ?
1, if you are new, no one knows you, and you don't know the big boss of the publishing house, unless the editor is very interested in your content, it is impossible to make people lose their jobs under the condition that the book number is so tight at this stage. If it is not the content that can conform to the market trend, and no one buys the book when it is published, can the editor eat all the books by himself? Or can you bear the production cost? If you buy back all your books and are willing to pay for the book numbers yourself, that is beyond our discussion. ?
2, we have to think for the editor, if your book is really worth selling, how do you sell it. If it sells well, the editor will definitely publish it. So who will sell their books? A star with a huge fan base! Anglebaby has a series of summer seaside swimwear. Do you want to buy it? Do you buy Zhao's growth from a small role to a big star? You said-no money, don't buy it! Well, if you don't buy it, naturally some people buy it, and many people buy it. Who makes the star's fan base big?
Before, I always thought that the fans of the stars in Weibo were mostly organic powder and water army, not real people. I started doing Sina Weibo last year. At present, there are nearly 50,000 fans. I have never bought a hot search fan, let alone a fake fan. I was surprised by the names of many followers: mini seal's small mood, Jackson Yee's cold weather, remember to wear long trousers, I only love Qian seal's big brother 666, I am not a bee, and my strength is cubic ... Some people's names have nothing to do with stars, but I click on the homepage, and he is actually the host of a star topic ...?
What I want to say is that Sina Weibo is a big pool. I was discovered by the editors of People's Posts and Telecommunications from here, so I can be sure that this is where the editors are waiting. If you can do it on Weibo, it will increase to 654.38+ million, and there will be no editors looking for you. What you have to worry about is that with so many publishers looking for you, which one should you choose? In fact, before and after "The Layout of Meng's Handwriting Can be Drawn in 5 Minutes", I was approached by seven publishing houses. ?
If you want to publish a book, it is better to take a step back and think about how to make it bigger on a platform, let fans pay attention to you, a large number of fans pay attention to you, and help you forward content on a large scale, which will inevitably attract the attention of editors. Ok, then you will ask, how to get a large number of fans to pay attention to you? ? This question can be seen as follows: what does the market need, what can you do for everyone, what can others get after paying attention to you, and are you better than your competitors? The rice is eaten bit by bit, so the fans are accumulated bit by bit. With a certain degree of attention, the editor will not worry about selling books for you. At least he knows that your fans can cover book sales. ?
Instead of thinking about how to publish a book, it is better to take apart the contents of your book and put it on the internet bit by bit. You can see how many people need it and how many people are willing to pay attention to you for your content. If you can't do it online, let alone offline physical books. After all, online is free and no one reads it for free. How can there be a market after charging? ?
The best way to publish an amateur book is to send the content online to test the water. This test, on the one hand, makes potential readers pay attention to you, on the other hand, lets editors find you, on the other hand, you can adjust the content at any time according to readers' feedback, which can kill two birds with one stone. It is easier to publish books in this era than before. Good content, the editor really wants you, not you. ?
Perhaps others' success can't be copied, but others' success has a warning and inspiration for us. ? If you want to publish a book, you should not consider how to persuade the editor to help you publish it, but how to adjust the steering wheel and arm yourself.
As for the influence and personal thoughts after the publication of the book, I personally give an example:
After the first printing of my second book, Meng Manual Format that a white man can draw in five minutes, 20 1200 copies were printed at the end of February and March, and 1200 copies were added in early April. It is worthwhile for me to take it out like this, which fully shows that my book is not a best seller, but a book that has been selling for a long time. ?
My book has been printed, and I have the following experience. ?
1, the manuscript fee is rich.
When my first book, 2 1 day stick figure training camp, was printed in 5000 copies, many friends asked me how much the royalties were, which made me feel ashamed. For those who don't pay attention to the remuneration, it is very respectable to get money for a book, and it is easy to harvest tens of thousands of pieces. However, for a small author who only has a first edition and has no additional printing, the manuscript fee is generally around 1 10,000 yuan. This 10000 yuan needs the author to work hard for three or four months to get the result, and office workers may get this amount in two months. So not many authors intend to make money by publishing books. ? After the second book was printed twice, I suddenly realized that I am also a person with "after-sleep income", and maybe this "after-sleep income" can continue to grow. Of course, even if it is printed twice, the manuscript fee will not be much, but it is an encouragement for new authors who have just entered the publishing industry. ?
2. Is it worth editing?
I have contacted several editors. Everyone has a refined literati demeanor and is responsible for most of their work. If the author's books sell well, a responsible editor will certainly make achievements. If the sales volume is not good enough, I will have the illusion that I am sorry for the editor. Some people may think that I am melodramatic, and work is work, so I won't pretend to be a big-tailed wolf. You say that because you don't understand the work of editors. ?
Because my book is a hand-drawn manuscript, the workload of typesetting and proofreading is very heavy. The first hand-drawn manuscript I gave to the editor was typeset in word, which brought trouble to the editor's work. In addition, pregnancy in the middle of the course prolongs the proofreading time and delays the time for books to go on the market ... This series of personal reasons need editing coordination, and generally speaking, they are very friendly to the author. ?
The editor may not only have this book to do, but also predict which book will sell better, so as to decide who is the illegitimate child and who should spend much resources and energy. But as far as my book is concerned, editing has gone through a lot of trouble. Dangdang and JD.COM's publicity has been put in place, and Taobao's Tmall Mall has also launched promotional videos, and the sales volume is stable at present. ?
I feel lucky to have a team to do something and not be dragged down by me personally. By the same token, it is not necessarily the author's ability to sell books well, and responsible editors make great contributions.
? Is this book really good?
This is my second book, and my most practical experience is that a book will be a good book if it is only a little, thorough and not greedy. This book is mainly about typesetting, and it is all hand-painted. I think it's different from similar books on the market. ?
The electronic version of the book was widely forwarded by millions of readers in Sina Weibo, attracting a group of fans' attention. This group of fans gave the bottom of the book sales, but the later sales were generally spread by word of mouth. Good products can talk, and bad products will naturally disappear. ?
If I publish a well-made book, then this product will help me tell many people that the author is excellent and form a second spread. If this book is not so good, it will naturally discredit its own brand. Now that the book has been printed twice, I think some friends really think this product is good and recommend it to people around them. ?
4. The masses asked us to make fine products.
Before I published my book, I thought that no matter how much I sold, I needed to act first and then pursue perfection. I didn't realize until the book was published that once it was published, it didn't belong to me and I couldn't control it. Some places may not be expressed in place and there is no chance to change. ?
Some friends around me are very cautious about publishing books, and some editors want to publish books for her. Although she is eager to move, she just doesn't take action to collect and publish her own works. She is always in the carving stage, always worried that she will create text garbage. In my opinion, I am worried about this because you haven't published enough books. If there are enough, there will always be bestsellers, so the work done in the early stage is to pave the way and explore the road. This idea was not positively motivated when it was published, and now it seems a bit shallow. ? When you reach a higher level, you need to set new demands on yourself. ?
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