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WHERE CAN I PUBLISH MY BOOK? (PART 3)

By

Arthur Zulu

Did I say exciting? Yes, of course. The world had been dragging until some whiz kids got their magic boxes together and said: “Let computers be connected!” And there came Internet. And dot com bomb. So, at touch of button, you have world at your feet. Isn’t that exciting?

You, writer has so much to gain from Internet. You can do your research there, read all kinds of books, and do ultimate –- publish on Internet.

I am not going to do a dissertation here because I do not know so much about subject (pardon my ignorance.) I even understand that there is going to be a “new” kind of Internet, soon (pity me.)

The first thing I will tell you though, is that dragons live there. The second is that many dot com companies are closing shop. And third is that there is no hidden secret to success in net than hard work, as in real life. (Is Internet not real?) The fourth is that Internet is your shortcut to success. Do you want to find out? Why not visit experts as you read on.

Two publishing opportunities are open to you on Internet. What are they, you may ask.

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HOW TO KEEP YOUR BOOK IN FRONT OF THE WORLD 24 HOURS A DAY AND MAKE MILLIONS!

By

Arthur Zulu

If you thought that writing and publishing are difficult things to do, then you are dead wrong! The fact is that both are simplest things as far as world of books is concerned. There is something that is harder than putting your thoughts on paper, and getting published. And what is it? you may like to ask.

It is promotion -- getting over 6 billion people out there to know that you have arrived. Ask any publisher writer. It’s a Sisyphian task!

Let’s consider one. When Edward Fitzgerald wrote ”The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” he may never have known that he would sell millions. Now, he did not place book in front of world 24 hours a day, but kept 100 copies in window of a local bookstore. Then what happened?

It caught attention of poet and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who after reading it, bought all copies of book, and gave them to his friends. And so started incredible success story of “The Rubaiyat”.

Well, fitzgerald was “lucky”. Because some published writers have given up writing as a result of poor sales, while others are still struggling to recover their publishing costs. Bad news.

But your window to glory is not local bookstore. It is Internet.

I am not, however, talking about other promotional techniques like link exchanges, Ezine ad swaps, subscription exchanges, or Ezine column swaps.

Neither am I talking about byline exchanges, signature exchanges, e-book exchanges, or private web rings. I do not also mean ride alongs, upsells, free bonuses, nor forum and list moderation.

So what am I talking about? It is Newswire.

This promotional method has succeeded in placing books in best-seller pages of newspapers, and gotten writers before TV talk shows.