Originally Posted by
IronFist
Yup, that's why I want to get some big company to do it so I don't have to promote it myself anymore.
The other option is to make it an ebook and then my cost would be $0, but then it would be on torrent sites and everyone would be emailing it to their friends and I'd probably only ever sell one copy :P That's why in 7 years I've never, ever released an electronic copy. The only way anyone will get an electronic copy is to buy the rights from me for five figures (that's five figures
before the decimal, lol)
I would suggest Createspace (which is a division of Amazon.com). If you publish through them you can get an ISBN and a listing in the amazon.com website. lkfmdc has it right.
What is often a good trick is to set the purchase price on Amazon.com (you determine this) rather higher than your own website purchase price. That way people "in the know" have an incentive to purchase from you directly, but you still get the benefits of an ISBN, a listing on amazon.com etc.
Createspace or "on-demand" publishing is wonderful for "vanity publishing" (which is what most martial arts books are basically), since they will print, wrap, package and drop-ship your merchandise for you. No shipping department in your living room. And the best part of it is.. once your manuscript is in their hard drive you are basically selling books that don't exist until AFTER you've gotten your cheddar.
Good luck!
"The first stage is to get the Gang( hard, solid power). every movement should be done with full power and in hard way, also need to get the twisting and wrapping power, whole body's tendon and bones need to be stretched to get the Gang( hard) power. "
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