For the first time in history, authors can selfpublish a book with the click of the button and amazon kindle direct publishing has made. Putting publishing into the hands of students book. If youre used to publishing epic blog articles, you will notice this is only a few full posts worth of content. You may already have blogged a book if youve been blogging for a long time and have focused your efforts. How to turn your wordpress blog into a book torquemag. However, the good news is that if you have been writing a blog for a while, youve already done a lot of the heavy lifting. Yet, theres more to turning a blog into a book than simply loading. Then schedule your content carefully based on a plan that fills each chapter. Plan the outline or table of contents for the best book you could write from scratch. In ferriss case, publishing a book brought readers to his blog. Write and post consistently 27 times per week or more. How 6 authors did it, in every case, agents or publishers approached the bloggers, not.
Automatically layout your book in just a few minutes. We are also the only solution that can repurpose video and. Have you been thinking about turning your blog into a book. So stop complaining about not having time to write. Fiction and nonfiction writers alike can create, print, and sell their books through all major retail channels. Turning your blog into a book or a document in a few minutes. In a 2009 mashable article, from blog to book deal. The 10 best publishing industry blogs on the web ribbonfish. Publishing companies work differently depending on the type of company, but they all work in the space of producing and publishing a book. How to turn your blog into a book the complete guide.
The complete guide to turning your blog into a book. And, going back to the length of your book, its not that hard to expand a 1,500word blog post into a 15,000word book. I n 2012 her school, sinarmas world academy, decided to embark on a huge publishing project with the aim of publishing 1,000 books in 7 months. In this guide, i explain how to turn your blog into a book you can proudly publish. From your blog to a book turning your blog into a book or a document in a few minutes. Exploring a single theme distilled from multiple blog posts. If youre using wordpress, the word stats plugin is a simple way to check your cumulative word count. The good news is, if youve read this far, you now know exactly what your options.
Never use a blog as a dumping ground for material thats already been written for the print mediumor for book publicationwithout any consideration for the art of the blog. Ten years on, the blog has become his brand hub, drawing millions of readers to his posts, and tens of millions of downloads of his podcast. If you want to print many books or if you are looking to publish your book, you may wish to convert your blog. Amazon kdp has taken the publishing world by storm. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on kindle stores worldwide within 2448 hours.
In case you wish to publish a book, you must commit to hard and smart work. Give your friends and family a treasured keepsake or treat the blogger in your life to a printed version of their blog. Instead, carefully edit each blog post again, making sure each can stand alone as a chapter and pulling them together in an order that will make sense in a book. This article primarily addresses selfpublishing a print book. Recycling your blog posts into a book may provide the easiest way to write a book, and how to blog a book provides the plan for producing both the blog and a book that agents, publishers and readers will. Into real pages, pixxibook, and blookup all specialize in single books. Blog to book 12 steps to turn blog posts into a book. Book publishing professionals can rely on publishing trends to supply them with a wealth of information about market forces, technological developments, industry moversandshakers, etc. Earn up to 70% royalty on sales to customers in the. To learn more about blogging book and booking blogs, purchase a copy of how to blog a book revised and expanded edition in the writers. Turning your blog into a successful book isnt rocket science, but its not easy either. Historically, if you wanted to know how to publish a book, you needed an agent to get a traditional publisher to look at your manuscript in fact, many publishing companies wont even open a. Once i finished the book, i began blogging about blogging books, booking blogs repurposing blog posts into a book and building better blogs and blogging better in general. We support blogger, hosted or selfhosted wordpress, typepad.
Publishing a book is an absolutely enormous undertaking, whether you choose to publish by yourself or publish traditionally. Youll build your author platform and finally get your bookor many bookswritten. Thus, by blogging and by blogging a book or booking a blog, you boost your business. Write, publish, and promote your work one post at a time amir, nina on. Copy and paste the posts into a word processing document to create a manuscript. Here are seven tips on how to book a blog and turn out a professional manuscript one with a high likelihood of achieving selfpublishing. Although traditional publishing is hard to break into, the rise of selfpublishing in recent years means anyone who wants to publish a book can do. Import your blog content from wordpress, blogger, or squarespace. Most of the large printondemand selfpublishing operations offer some sort of ebook conversion service and distribution and sometimes it gets bundled into a printpublishing package.
If you want to book your blog, follow these five steps. Your content is ready to publish, to backup archive, or to print. The best ways to promote yourself and your book is via social media, but blogging provides the pivot point for your promotion plan. Your content is ready to publish, to backup archive, or.
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Also create a promotion plan that includes social media as well as traditional media your blog. How to create a book from your blog location rebel. Blog a book choose a blog topic based on marketability and competition in both the blogosphere and. Learning how to publish an ebook can be pretty painful without the right process.
Bookwright features videos, instructions, and tips built right into the application so youll have everything you need right at your fingertips. Going from wordpress blog to book your ultimate guide. Mine your blog for posts that fit the content plan of your book. Writing and publishing a book successfully by itself is a challenge but with kindle direct publishing, amazon. Booking a blog may seem simple to do, and a variety of services and blog plugins allow you to go straight from blog to book. Just the time to gather all your text, links and pictures, to put them into a nice blogbook. You should be clear about your reason for creating a book from your blog before. This guide will show you exactly how to go from wordpress blog to book all the way from choosing your books topic, to.
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