Comments on: Success Stories http://llbookreview.com/2008/04/success-stories/ Self-publishing book review Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shannonyarbrough http://llbookreview.com/2008/04/success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-763 shannonyarbrough Wed, 20 May 2009 11:26:30 +0000 http://lulubookreview.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-763 Hmmm....Hi Suzanne- Thanks for your comment. Did you mispost it though? Our post is about success stories and never mentions selling electronic rights, Scribd, or lazy publishers. But thanks for the tip. -Shannon LLBR Hmmm….Hi Suzanne- Thanks for your comment. Did you mispost it though? Our post is about success stories and never mentions selling electronic rights, Scribd, or lazy publishers. But thanks for the tip.

-Shannon
LLBR

]]> By: suzanne white http://llbookreview.com/2008/04/success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-762 suzanne white Wed, 20 May 2009 07:31:59 +0000 http://lulubookreview.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-762 First things first. Authors, do not sell your electronic rights to the paper publisher. Retain them for yourself. If the publisher argues with you, get another publisher. I have written four best-selling books on New Astrology© and The Chinese Zodiac. I own all my electronic rights and you should too. I sell all my books as digital downloads on my web site. I even sell chapters of my books as downloads. I have been doing it for years with great success. Secondly, if a publisher gets lazy or isn't doing your book justice, ask for your rights back. I did it a couple of years ago and the publisher (Harper) finally let go. The book needed updating. I was the only one who could do it. They didn't want to pay me. Now I am publishing that book digitally and selling it on my site as well as for Kindle and on a site I own on Facebook. Defend yourselves. And by the way, I checked out Scribd. A mess. Their terms are appalling. They win. You lose. Typical. Good luck, Suzanne White suzanwhite@aol.com First things first.

Authors, do not sell your electronic rights to the paper publisher. Retain them for yourself. If the publisher argues with you, get another publisher.

I have written four best-selling books on New Astrology© and The Chinese Zodiac. I own all my electronic rights and you should too.

I sell all my books as digital downloads on my web site. I even sell chapters of my books as downloads. I have been doing it for years with great success.

Secondly, if a publisher gets lazy or isn’t doing your book justice, ask for your rights back. I did it a couple of years ago and the publisher (Harper) finally let go. The book needed updating. I was the only one who could do it. They didn’t want to pay me. Now I am publishing that book digitally and selling it on my site as well as for Kindle and on a site I own on Facebook.

Defend yourselves. And by the way, I checked out Scribd. A mess. Their terms are appalling. They win. You lose. Typical.

Good luck, Suzanne White
suzanwhite@aol.com

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