{"id":889,"date":"2016-09-15T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:41:23","slug":"vanity-publishing-pros-cons-and-tips","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/articles\/vanity-publishing-pros-cons-and-tips","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Publishing: Pros, Cons, and Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"
Your manuscript is ready and polished. You can\u2019t wait to give copies to your friends and family. But how do you turn that file on your computer into a physical book?<\/p>\n
If you have some cash to spare, one quick method is vanity publishing. Here\u2019s more about it.<\/p>\n
A vanity publishing house is a company that will produce your book for you, in digital or physical format, but at a cost to you. Unlike trade publishing, you will first pay for all stages of the production of the book, and only then earn royalties on it. It\u2019s closer to self-publishing, and some might even call it self-publishing for the rich.<\/p>\n
Unlike full-fledged self-publishing, a vanity press will minimize the chaos and complication of the process, offering you the best results for the minimum effort. Here are the steps you\u2019ll go through.<\/p>\n
Even when you pay for everything to be done correctly, there are pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n
Can it be worth all of that money and effort? Vanity publishing has some upsides too!<\/p>\n
If you don’t want to go through the steps of\u00a0producing a book on your own<\/a>, if you’ve got money to spare, and if you only want a limited number of copies made, then a vanity press might be a good option for you.<\/p>\n If, however, you have thick skin, high-quality work that might appeal to the general public, and want to work with the industry\u2019s established professionals to make your manuscript shine, then maybe trade publishing is more appropriate.\u00a0Read more about the trade publishing route here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[36,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}