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Just creating content, let alone quality content, is the nightmare of many people who opt to plunge into book self publishing. Yet the truth is that never before in the history of mankind, writing and book self publishing has it been so easy to create quality content. In fact the sort of quality content that your readers will just drink in and cause your book to be so popular and to have a major positive impact on all your marketing activities.

Computers and the World Wide Web both make the creation of quality content very easy for anybody self publishing a book.

To start with, every day you answer email, write proposals, letters and all sorts of communication that contains your expertise, experience and special skills. What’s more, all this valuable stuff is neatly stored in both your computer hard drive and in your email account. The reason why most of us may not be able to immediately identify this valuable resource for the content of the books we are self publishing is because it is pretty much every day stuff that we are so used to.

Just by gathering all this writing that you have already done into one single document in your favorite word processor will enable you to realize that a lot of potential content for the book you are self publishing is already done.

The next step is to read through and expand on this topic here and that one there and in no time at all, your quality content for the book you are self publishing will be ready to go to press.

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So how does somebody get a self publishing book idea that suits them or their business the best?

A good place to start is by ensuring that you are clear on what your objectives are. In this case you want more visibility and therefore you will want to seek a self publishing book idea that will show off your expertise and position you as a leading expert in your field.

To get a good self publishing book idea you will need to first understand the pressing needs of those who can solve their problems using the skills and knowledge that you will lay bare in your book. What interests them the most? What do they want above everything else?

It is very important that you approach this whole issue of an ideal self publishing book idea in this manner because it is quite common for entrepreneurs and experts to get carried away by the pet subjects with no consideration for the particular niche they wish to target. Not addressing the needs of your market will only cause you to end up with a bad self publishing book idea that will not sell nor give you the visibility and enhanced image for your business that you seek.

It is also very important that you package your self publishing book idea in the most catchy, powerful title that will attract the highest possible interest from your audience. The fact is that people still judge their books by the cover. It is therefore a good idea to start thinking very seriously about your title and book cover blurbs immediately after you come with the self publishing book idea that you want to go with and through the writing and preparation of the book.

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Most economies are equipped with two economic infrastructures; two different markets for the same goods. You will not only find this in less developed economies with a parallel currency market (next to the official currency market). But even in developed countries there is the black market as opposed to the legal white market. Less dramatic differences are there between the official stock market and the over the counter (OTC) market.

The book market is still a very big market, which covers different sub types, for instance the second hand market. The book market is a place where publishers sell books and where readers buy them. Market number one. Another type is, a familiar kind of market but on a different level; the self-publishing market. In that case the author is also publisher. The other characteristics are more or less the same.

Recently I understand that in either market you can make a fortune of books that are sold. If you are a talented merchandiser you could easily sell large numbers of your own work.
Switching from one market to the other is not that easy though. Again, this is not about something illegal like money laundering, but a simple step from self publishing to the established book market.
In many countries there is no choice to operate in one or the other market, but in the book market there is this choice, even if it is not an easy one.

If you choose to enter the unofficial marketplace, it will be hard to switch later on. This means that you should consider this in advance. Consider the tradeoff between the increased amount of energy you need on the short term to enter the official market, and the continuous extra energy you need in the unofficial market; even if the barrier to enter is less (in the beginning).

© 2006 Hans Bool

Hans Bool is the founder of Astor White a traditional management consulting company that offers online management advice. Astor Online solves issues in hours what normally would take days.
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