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Over 250,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages. How to get your selfpublished books into bookstores. Love em or hate em, amazon is king, and your book needs to be listed there in order to get in front of readers. If you want play in the big leagues, you have to be willing to pay. Make sure your book meets our content and quality guidelines. Anyway, getting published with a legitimate publishing house requires hard work and some luck. And so it is, but the publishing industry is inevitably pretty complex, and can generate massively different. And there are many other benefits to having an agent. You can go the route of trying to get published by traditional publishers, or. Once you sell your book, dont expect it to be at the bookstores, overnight.
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