This is not hype. You are a writer. You browse the Internet almost every day now, looking for both entertainment and information. You see other writers having blogs and web pages on the Internet.
And you wonder: where does that leave you?
Here is the most startling current piece of information there is now in 2007.
The Internet, the World Wide Web, has become the publisher of choice for the world's information needs.
THE INTERNET IS THE BIGGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE AND THE PREFERRED PUBLISHING HOUSE IN THE WORLD BY FAR!!!
Do you doubt this?
You don't feel the Internet has the prestige that having a book published with a big publishing house would bring you, and maybe you are right.
However, those places at the top of the traditional publishing world are few and far between. Interesting metaphor.
While at the same time organically the biggest publishing house by far has developed just next door!!!
Is it not time for you as a writer to claim your niche on the World Wide Web?
A writer is a packager and conveyer of information, even if you write successfully sold novels.
People in the millions look to their computers and the Internet for most of their information needs.
This is natural since the Internet publishes information quickly and in a relevant manner, and with more experts per subject area than any paper book publisher can muster.
WRITERS EARNING MONEY SELLING THEIR WORK
An economic analysis of what writers are paid in the traditional publishing world shows that all but the top writers are getting screwed royally. How is this?
Writers traditionally are paid eight percent about of the retail price of a book. The author does the big labor creating a book and the publisher and book sellers take over ninety percent of the cover price the consumer pays for that book.
We don't complain that this is totally unfair. We say to the writer: move to the Internet, the biggest and best publisher in the world.
On the Internet selling your work you will get at least fifty percent of what your electronic books sells for after expenses are paid.
There are no printing and paper costs, or if there are they are taken up in the Print On Demand, POD, publishing service. You get even here twenty to forty percent of your book cover price.
So that almost suddenly now paper book publishers, their editors, their printers, your agent, your publicist, and any other people such as sales people, have become limited or irrelevant.
The world has gone largely Internet for its information needs, free and paid for.
It will only get worse for writers who rely on paper book publishers. You, the writer, will never make much money there unless you are one of the very few.
You will have to go Internet now. These are some of the key ideas you need to know and follow to survive and grow as a writer making a living from your work.
- Create a web site or a web blog site where you make your presence as an author known.
- Don't rely on your web site or blog to sell your books in paper for you.
- You don't make a pretty, author-like, book-cover like, web site. These pretty sites do not sell books or products. They just look nice, but few of these pretty sites have that many paying visitors who will buy your books from them. I as an author with a pretty website, dreamwork2000, since 1999 know because very few of my paper book have sold from this website.
- You don't just create a website. You create a marketing website from which you give away good information you are expert in through short articles, and also through which you sell expert information as downloadable books, fiction and non-fiction.
- You as a writer are not selling your style. You are selling your expert knowledge. Therefore, you must position yourself successfully on the web as not just an author but an expert in a certain subject also. THIS IS THE KEY!!!
- Check out what we say here. Go to author's pretty web sites. Do you read them and buy from them? Do you? Go to Internet marketing websites and note the difference in how they are designed and written. March 15, 2007 - you feel a pull to read some of their free articles, and also to buy some of their reports and services.
- This is the marketing pull. As a writer these days you are responsible for also marketing your work and writing it in a style that alerts people to the fact they may need your information.
- This article comes from a working writer who has sold over 350,000 books published in paper. He has now moved his writing and publishing career to the Internet.
He has changed also how he writes some of his information, including fiction and non-fiction to formats that work well currently on the Internet.
He has bought marketing reports and services that help him get sales through the Internet of his work. He has produced new work Internet style in his effort to become relevant to this new way of publishing information with the biggest publisher in the world, the Internet.
You will find these and a lot more ideas and resources in a full report for sale at a reasonable price at this author's regular website: http://www.creativewritingandwriters.com
See his other free information articles and paid-for reports, plus examples of his own fiction-writing work. Strephon Kaplan-Williams is a well-published writer and expert psychologist now selling his new work solely from the Internet. He offers solely his own experiences as a resource for new writers coming on the Internet.
