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In recent years, self-publishing has become accessible to just about everyone. A lot of people are using it and many more will continue to. The ease with which authors can self-publish their works has presented them with the pleasant dilemma of having to decide whether to choose to go down the self-publishing route or choose a publisher.
So with many self-publishing options around, why should you still choose to publish your book with us?
- No initial investment: All the initial capital investment is taken care of by Packt. You do not need to spend any money on ISBNs, editorial services, title set-up, marketing, distribution, or any other costs. Doing all of this is costly not only financially but also in terms of time that taking on all tasks yourself involves, which for many authors is even more valuable. What is more, you also get an advance against the royalties for writing the book.
- Value-added editorial process: Unlike many other publishers, we do not simply take manuscripts, lay it out, and have it printed. We have an experienced and highly skilled team of Acquisition Editors who work with authors on developing their ideas into title proposals and book outlines, and continue to provide them with feedback as they write the book to ensure that the content is of the highest possible quality.
- Effective Marketing: The combination of our experienced marketing team and the unique marketing model that we have developed means that your book is marketed through all of its normal channels. Additionally, publishing your book with us means that it is featured on packtpub.com, which is growing into one of the most popular websites.
- World-wide Sales and Distribution: Our books are available from a wide and growing network of online retailers and bookstores in many countries. We have a resourceful sales team that continues to work on improving the sales of your book in various channels, including our e-commerce enabled website.
- Rights and translations team: Our foreign rights team has close relationships with foreign publishers in many countries. Before the publication of your book we promote it to our network of foreign publishers and work hard to have it translated and published into as many languages as possible. These translations realize more financial value from your book. We also work ourselves with translators to publish some titles into foreign languages.
- Author-centric editorial process: Our editorial process is set up to help authors rather than being a rigid process that expects authors to adjust to it. Our flexible process is designed to help authors deliver high quality content as fast as possible, taking into account the realistic timeline they choose to work to.
- Fastest timeline: Some authors prefer to self-publish their books because most publishers have a very long book development and publishing cycle. We offer one of the fastest timelines from idea to printed book in the book publishing industry. In a market where technologies change at a fast pace and thus content loses its relevance equally quickly having an agile and efficient publishing process that realizes book ideas into published books fast is essential for the success of the book. Turning a first draft manuscript of an acceptable quality into a published book takes around 3.5 months. This includes technical reviewing, manuscript revision by the author, technical editing, indexing, layout and printing.
We believe that these are very good reasons for choosing to publish your book with us rather than self publish it. However, if you do not need help with developing the content of your book, you do not mind the investment in terms of money and time, you do not think your book would need the value that the Packt brand adds to it, and you believe you can market, distribute, and sell your book effectively, then self-publishing your book is probably your better option.
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