by SRA-Admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Publishing your book |
Following on from Ian’s blog post last week, The cost of publishing, I wanted to explore a little further what it is that creates the value of a book that he talked about. It may be useful to think of your book as a new product – which of course it is. To bring the...
by Kelly Mundt | Nov 3, 2016 | Publishing your book |
For those of you who are familiar with the publishing process, you will know that copy editing is the first step in production. It has also been called ‘line editing’ because of the detailed nature of this stage. Much like the editor, the copy editor must know what...
by Maria Waite | Oct 12, 2016 | Publishing your book |
As Sainsbury’s announces it is to stop selling ebooks in the UK shortly, as other giants like Tesco, Waterstones and Nook have before them, I am left wondering whether the might of Amazon will ever be challenged in any significant way. Amazon dominates the ebook...
by Kelly Mundt | Sep 13, 2016 | Publishing your book |
There’s this funny thing about publishing where many people know what happens (a nice book comes out at the end), but not many people really know what happens (what are the stages?). It’s quite an interesting journey from just writing down the words in your head to...
by Kelly Mundt | Aug 23, 2016 | Publishing your book |
Let’s talk books for a second – and I mean the physical, wrap-your-fingers-around paper product that people have grown to know and love for centuries. At SRA Books we have this knowledge that is almost second nature, like how a B Format book is 198 x 129mm or a...
by Kelly Mundt | Aug 9, 2016 | Publishing your book |
‘When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.’ Stephen King, On Writing: A memoir of the craft There are some in the office who might laugh at this phrase of mine and...