How to Publish a book in India
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Step by Step Book Publishing Process
- Choose a publishing package
- Choose special services
- Upload manuscript
- Book cover designing
- Manuscript editing, interior formatting
- Author’s approval
- Printing & Listing
- Delivery of printed complementary copies
- Book marketing campaign
- Dashboard & Academy access to track sales & royalties
How to Publish a Book in India?
Publishing a book can be possible in four available ways. However, each of the publishing processes has some PROs and CONs. It totally depends on you, the author. It is you who needs to take the call by carefully studying all the different ways of publishing before starting with any of the publishing options.
There are many factors that you need to understand before you start sending manuscripts to various publishing houses.
The publishing industry is vast. And, the influencing factors are also enormous. Factors like the author’s target reader group, which includes detailed analytics like the age group and interest level of the readers of your book, are crucial. Your brand value as an author, your overall investment budget, the royalty (profit sharing) amount you are looking for are also very important factors you need to be clear about.
This article is just an attempt to give some idea to you regarding the option you can think about before crafting the game plan for your book. And, if you feel lost, we are always there to help you via our free consultation call. No purchase required.
1. Publishing via Traditional publishers
There are many traditional book publishers in India who follow a different set of guidelines, although some core instructions are common.
In most cases, you may need to submit the manuscript and then wait for them to reach out in the case of selection. They may not contact you in the case of rejection.
Even if your manuscript has potential, you may experience rejections in many cases, which may let you wait for around 4 to 12 months in many cases.
Some of the popular authors who faced multiple rejections by traditional publishers are Agatha Christie (more than $2 billion book sales), J. K. Rowling (“Harry Potter”), C. S. Lewis (“The Da Vinci Code”), Paulo Coelho (“The Alchemist”), Vladimir Nabokov (“Lolita”), Audrey Niffenegger (“The Time Traveler’s Wife”), Yann Martel (“Life of Pi”) and there are many more.
Many new authors lose hope because of the difficulty and time involved with publishing via traditional publishers. Sometimes, it may take years. After spending a long waiting time, many authors quit writing or opt for the route of self-publishing.
Publishing through traditional publishers directly can be a good option if you already have proven yourself as a writer.
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- Book sales tracking via dashboards & reports
- Press release accross countries
- International availability
Before uploading your manuscript
- Have your manuscript ready
- Your decent-quality photo as author
- A writeup describing your book
- Few sentences about you as the author
2. Publishing via a Traditional book publisher through Agents
Contacting multiple traditional publishers is stressful. Many authors outsource the job of maintaining the list for periodic follow-ups and identifying proper channels to expedite their submission in certain cases via publishing agents.
But right now, there are only a few agents who are successful but charge less for working with new authors.
This can be a very good choice if you, as an author, have a very good market value and can identify a genuine and successful agent.
Evaluating the publishing agent is an art. The authors need proper education and training to find out the best one among the bunch of agents available in the market. It may also involve a good investment as well.
3. Self-Publishing Directly
The author can self-publish the book. No agent or other third-party assistance will be needed in that case. But the author must have an end-to-end skill set to cover all the aspects of pre-production and post-production activities.
Although, if the author has the genius to have aesthetic, technical, and marketing skills and knowledge along with the core writing skills, they can invest their time and money while doing everything themselves.
This is like learning the skills to design and build a car just to move from Calcutta to Cochin.
It is rare, but we have seen the rise of Amish as a self-publishing author who decided to self-publish and win the market. But in the process, he himself got transformed from an author to an institution.
If you have time and money to reinvent the wheel, this can be a very good start. And if you can connect the dots with perfect timing, you may experience success like Amish.
4. Self-Publishing using professional Platforms
You can get professional assistance from a self-publishing company like 24by7 Publishing to get your book edited, beautified and designed for your target reader, and then publish, while keeping the full control in your hands regarding all the aspects not only related to pre-production but also to the distribution channels, overall investments, promotions, launch, etc.
There are a variety of options available while choosing the book publishing package online based on the author’s needs and budget.
Self Publishing
Self-publish is the easiest option for new-age authors to print books via online publishing. On-demand printing is the latest way to get your book printed on a very low budget by having just a virtual inventory. 24by7 Publishing provides an online self publishing guide to get published easily, making it one of the fastest-growing among the book publishers in India.
If you have a manuscript, we are ready to print your book! Publishing a book within budget was never so easy. Welcome to 24by7Publishing.com – the most professional & affordable book publishing platform – the ultimate answer to all of your questions related to how to publish a book in India.
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The Publishing Process
How to self-publish a book in India?
- Manuscript: Prepare, proofread, edit and upload your manuscript in digital format.
- Book cover: Design & beautify the book cover. Well chosen title and appealing visuals are the key points.
- Print & Publish: Print 1 to thousands of copies and publish the book. Take care price, royalty, ISBN, copyright etc.
- Promote & Distribute: Distribute the book in different channels. Launch the book & promote it in different media.
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