Note: If you arrived at this page via an external link, we recommend that you begin at the beginning of our How to Publish Quiz to ensure you get the best recommendation for you and your book. Based on your answers, we recommend that you consider self-publishing using digital printing and, specifically, Lightning Source, Inc. This is certainly not the only way to self-publish successfully nor is it always the best way, but we firmly believe it is the lowest cost way to self-publish with the least risk.
Lightning Source, Inc. (LSI) is the world's largest digital book printer and uses state-of-the-art equipment to produce a million books each month with an average order size of less than two books. LSI's capabilities make it virtually the only true print-on-demand book printer.
However, LSI's system is designed to accommodate large and mid-size publishers who want to keep backlist titles in print or launch new books that are not expected to sell in large quantities. Although quite willing to work with small and self-publishers, LSI is not set up to lead you by the hand through the publishing process.
You need to know what you're doing to print successfully with LSI.
And that's where our Self-Publishing Success Program can help. Our program will take you step-by-step, via 20 weekly emails, through everything you need to do to publish your book through LSI, including:
- Setting up your own publishing company
- Getting reviews and promotional blurbs
- Developing and implementing your marketing plan
- Setting up your website and blog
- Plus the myriad other seemingly overwhelming tasks
Our course will tell exactly what you need to do when you need to do it and will provide all the needed links to books, websites, and other resources to allow you to complete the tasks without wasting time searching for them on your own. And these are links we know to be useful and accurate. These lessons provide links to pages on our server
with regularly updated lists of, & links to, all the
companies, agencies, and forms you will need!
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Walt gives the clearest instructions I've ever encountered in over 200 hours of undergraduate and graduate studies and countless IBM in-service classes. His weekly instructions respected my ambitions and abilities and the necessities of the trade. He pointed out weaknesses and offered fixes rather than merely industry platitudes.