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For Authors: 5 Tips for Self-Publishing a Book

3,254 views · Published 15 October 2013 · 7:10 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Book Launchers · 2013 · Education

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Self-publishing and creating a best selling book needs some planning. Here's the first tip of five to help you self-publish your book in Canada.This first tip is a critical step to your success.



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Video transcript:
It was quite a journey and I've had a ton of questions from people looking for a little assistance to help them with their self publishing journey.


The channel that you're going to choose to do that is probably going to be different than if your objective is to sell it online through a vendor like Amazon or if your goal is to make that book a best-seller on some bestseller list.


If you just want to do an e-book for your own purposes just create that sucker in a PDF go on a great website called fivver.com hire someone for five to forty dollars to format it, make it look professional, and put that thing on your website.

Now, how you put it on your website how you distribute it totally different subject for another day. Print is even still quite simple even for Canadians you have a ton of options and there's plenty of local printing places who will do runs of books so if you want to get 500 printed a thousand printed the pricing is fairly competitive if you just want one off printing you'll have to do a little bit shop a little bit of shopping around but there still are some great printing options for that I found one on Vancouver Island that would have been an option for me if my book was simply a marketing piece.



Now if you just want to sell your book online so you want it available for people to purchase and again you can choose an e-book route and go kindle for Amazon or ibooks for Apple although there's a little trick with Apple you need an in ein number because you have to do it through an American version whereas through Amazon there's still some fun American tax forms that you have to fill out but Amazon will actually submit your taxes for you and hold it back and submit on your behalf oh yeah it's good times as a Canadian there's a few little a little hurdles you'll have to overcome but overall if you just want to sell online using a Create Space is a great choice it is a very easy to use very user-friendly way to get your book into Amazon and even it will help you create a Kindle version I didn't go that route for the kindle version but I did
actually publish on Create Space just to test it out and you can order copies for yourself as well and it was quite a reasonable price and great quality printing I was very pleased with what I got out of there.

So that'll get you on Amazon, the challenge is if you want to do anything other than Amazon with Create Space it's going to be trickier. While possible it's trickier.

In my case I just wanted to make the book as widely available as possible, writing my book was well it has some marketing and some get my name out there benefits my goal was really to
communicate a message to all real estate investors and a little bit to the publishing industry because they turned me down I had to self-publish because they didn't think that the book I wanted to write was really going to be a marketable book they didn't think there was a strong enough marketing platform for it or for me so I kind of have a little bit of that behind me too that I
want to sell the heck out of it to kind of prove a point but I also really want to get that message out there so I went with the option that was going to allow me to put the book in as many places as possible so I went with Lightning Source.



There's still a lot of hurdles to go through and if that's the route you want to go plan to sign up for your Lightning Source account at least eight weeks before your book is ready to go because
it will take a while for it to get on your Canadian sites like chapters and amazon.ca I'll talk about that in another video but for now think about why you want to self-publish?

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