Book Publishing Overview – Three Houses Press

Building a Book: First Chapter

By: S. Morris July 22, 2021July 26, 2021

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Construction of your book continues. Now that we have created some blueprints, gotten a few small tools ready to go, it’s time to start thinking bigger.

Self-Publishing Platforms

By: B. Greene April 8, 2021April 7, 2021

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There are many different platforms available to individuals looking to self-publish. However, not all distribution platforms are made equal. Before you choose which platform is the right one for you, you should first determine your top priorities.

Imprints

By: R. Mange March 11, 2021March 10, 2021

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Publishers can use their various imprints as a way to establish different, yet cohesive brand identities.

House Tour, Final Stop: Publicity

By: B. Greene February 18, 2021February 17, 2021

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Book publicity is the effort a book publicist makes to get the book(s) they’re promoting into the consciousness of consumers. Simply put, it is the job of the book publicist to help drive sales by building recognition.

House Tour: Manufacturing and Distribution

By: S. Morris January 28, 2021January 27, 2021

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The tour continues with manufacturing and distribution! Don’t count this part out — it is critical to your book succeeding.

House Tour: Metadata

By: B. Greene September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

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Metadata may not be the most exciting or glamorous job in publishing, but it is an essential one. And it continues to grow in importance each day as our society grows more and more digital. Now with the pandemic looming large and most of us homebound, it’s never been more necessary to push books digitally, whether borrowing or purchasing an ebook or purchasing a print book online, and those who have the best Metadata teams are sure to feel the benefit.

House Tour: Sales

As much as we love to think about literature as an art form, at the end of the day, publishing is still a business where the ultimate goal is to sell books. As a publisher you could acquire the greatest novel ever written, but without the Marketing and Sales teams, that book isn’t going to fly off the shelves. Sales plays an integral role in getting books from the hands of the author to the hands of the reader as early as the acquisition stage.