When writing a book the thought of how you will publish it is generally in the back of your mind until it comes time to publish it. If you are self-publishing you will need to decide how you will market it to your possible readers, such as; will it be an eBook only or just a Paperback only. Maybe you will want it to be published as an eBook and a Paperback. Whatever you decide, if you are self-publishing and you want both of these options each will require work on your part. The reason is that the setup of an eBook template is different from the setup of a Paperback template. Then if you decide you also want your book to be in Hard Cover and Audiobook format this will open up a lot more work for you because each of these types of publications requires there own different setup as well. I have to admit that personally I only have some of my book as just eBooks, and a few of them as both eBook and Paperback. I am currently working on making all of my eBooks into Paperbacks, but like I said, this takes a whole different template to set up before an eBook can be made into a Paperback as well. (and it is also very time consuming if you are planning on doing this yourself). I do not have any of my books currently in Audio or Hardcover, but I have been researching this and might just attempt to do this to all of my books. The one that I recently have been considering more than any of them is Audiobooks because I heard that sales in this area for the year 2017' has gone up by 25%, so it's obvious that the market is headed in the Audiobook direction. I know there are people out on fiverr.com who offer the various publication services in formatting eBooks, Paperbacks, etc., so if you are willing to fork over some money to someone else to do this for you then this can help get your book or books published in the format for your reader market a lot quicker then you could possibly do it yourself. This is just something to consider. (Here is a video below talking about eBooks and Physical Books).
And here is another video below with a person giving their pro's and cons for an eBook and a Paperback book. The Audiobook will also be discussed in this video.
Hopefully, if you haven't yet published, or have published at least an eBook that this article and the videos presented have given you some food for thought in how you want to publish your book for the mass market. I know that, although I have published 10 books that they are still a work in progress on whether I should branch out from just eBooks and physical books. As a writer, this is definitely something I will be thinking about more.
In my next blog article, I am going to discuss how much writing a book affects people, from their sanity to their general health, etc., and the things I have learned along the way that has helped me to get beyond some of the craziness called book writing.
So stay tuned!
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