By: BetterScribe
This is a
trend I have seen starting to occur where editors offer to act as publishers
for first time authors. Offering advice and assistance with setting up
publishing accounts and distribution.
It’s a
trend I’m completely against because first time authors that don’t know any
better, end up with a substandard book product that isn’t published in the
global book system correctly, isn’t set up for distribution and ends up being
near impossible to be sold.
This is
far from the end result any author wants.
These
editors have no real idea of what it takes to publish a book. They just know
how they published their book, or more commonly, how they saw someone else
publish. They read a few blog posts, and now all of a sudden they’re an expert.
I don’t
think so.
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